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BREAKING: SEIU Local 87 Janitors at Twitter HQ went on strike at 6am today. Picket line starting at 12 noon, 1355 Market St. in San Francisco. #TakeOnTheTwit
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We refuse to stay silent while ICE terrorizes working class communities. We are turning out and standing united in solidarity with @seiucalifornia calling on the release of SEIU President David Huerta!
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Update: Twitter has now terminated the contract employing the striking union janitors who had been working at Twitter HQ in San Francisco. More to come.
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 ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| | Every Worker | | Should have | | guaranteed | | paid sick leave | | ___________| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || /   づ Pass it on #CoronavirusOutbreak #1u
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Replying to @JortsTheCat
Jorts, you’re not going to believe this.
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A massive strike authorization vote is taking place for 48,000 academic workers within the University of California. The sheer scale of this vote’s impact is immense - around 10% of all postdoc workers in the USA are in the UC system.
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✅ The Weekend ✅ 8 hr work day ✅ 40 hr work week ✅ Vacation Time ✅ OT ✅ Sick Days ✅Workplace safety ✅Child Labor Laws ✅ Health Benefits ✅ Retirement ✅Worker's Comp ✅Family Leave ✅The right to strike Brought to you by the labor movement ✊🏽✊✊🏿✊🏼 #LaborDay #1u
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The California Labor Movement stands in strong solidarity with our brother David Huerta. We demand his immediate release! @seiucalifornia
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Let's just be honest. Voting against a $15 minimum wage is voting for trapping millions in a desperate state of perpetual poverty. You can't call yourself pro-worker if you bail when workers need you most #RaiseTheWage #FightFor15
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We’ll be honest, we didn’t have “a pro-union Twitter account run by a cat goes viral” on our 2022 bingo card, but we couldn’t be happier to have Jorts spreading the word about organizing! If you don’t already, FOLLOW @JortsTheCat and Jean! #UnionStrong cnn.com/2022/02/17/business/…
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┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲ house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ stand w/ @Instacart Shoppers striking for hazard pay, safety on the job & paid sick leave. ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕ #SickofGigGreed #InstacartStrike
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Twitter indicates their new contractor will not be rehiring the janitors, despite obligation to rehire per county and state requirements. Twitter doesn’t seem to understand how important it is to keep a clean house and respect the people who take out the trash. #TakeOnTheTwit
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Today is Larry Itliong Day in California, honoring the courageous Filipino American labor leader whose union members began the historic and groundbreaking Delano Grape Strike. @UFWupdates #LarryItliongDay #LaborHistory #1u
As we celebrate Filipino American History Month, we honor labor leader Larry Itliong, who played a pivotal role in organizing farmworkers. He was a pioneer of worker & immigrant rights, and inspired generations of activists to carry on his fighting spirit. calaborfed.org/larry-itliong…
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BREAKING #AB5 has passed the CA Senate! This is a huge win for workers across the nation! It's time to rebuild the middle class and ensure ALL workers have the basic protections they deserve. Thank you to everyone who helped #DisruptInequality 🎉 @LorenaSGonzalez #YesonAB5
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BREAKING: @Uber @Lyft drivers file petition to invalidate #Prop22. We stand in solidarity with these brave essential workers in their fight to stop this exploitative, unconstitutional law that hurts workers & their families #SickofGigGreed
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Happening NOW in Santa Cruz, CA! We are standing together for racial justice and in solidarity with the Starbucks #Memphis7 workers! They were illegally fired for organizing their workers and demanding a voice on the job. ⁦@SBWorkersUnited#UnionsForAll
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BREAKING: The #PROAct just passed in the US House of Reps! One step closer to ensuring all workers have the freedom to stand together in a union. Onward!
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Our #NoOnProp22 squad is big. Thank you @AOC for standing with California workers and urging voters to reject this harmful measure. Don't let gig corporations deny their workers a living wage in the middle of a pandemic. Vote NO on Prop 22!
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The unit of union janitors went out at 6:00 this morning on a ULP strike for failure to bargain. They’ll be maintaining the picket lines, despite the rain. Friday is the last day of the contract between the union contractor and Twitter.
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Gov. Newsom just signed #AB2183, the most consequential private sector organizing bill in our state’s history. 1/
Gov. Newsom has signed #AB2183. Sí, se puede.
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Imagine dropping $200,000,000 to deny your workers the basic protections they deserve like a living wage and health insurance. ALL DURING A PANDEMIC. #NoOnProp22
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Almost 700,000 federal workers have been illegally stripped of their collective bargaining rights literally overnight. These workers care for our veterans, keep our food and water safe, protect our public health and basically run our federal government. This union-busting is unprecedented. Working men and women in our country deserve better. We can’t sit back and allow President Trump and his billionaire boys club to destroy our rights as workers and union members.
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Workers will never be defeated #Striketober #UnionStrong #1u
A Kellogg's worker on strike last night holding down the picket line through torrential rain in Omaha, Nebraska via @Kelloggstrike Facebook page
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We're like family here. You don't need a union. ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
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Access to reproductive health care is a fundamental freedom. Overturning #RoeVWade is a direct attack on all workers, especially low-wage women & communities of color. The labor movement will NOT stand by while SCOTUS extremists dismantle our rights. We're not going back. EVER.
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and obtained by POLITICO. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito writes. politico.com/news/2022/05/02…
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From Day 1 of this pandemic, @GavinNewsom has prioritized the health & safety of workers. With the uptick of cases, PPE for essential workers is more important than ever. We deeply appreciate @CAgovernor's efforts to procure more PPE to ensure health & safety remains paramount.
CA has taken unprecedented steps to ensure we have the PPE we need to keep CA safe. Distributed so far: 86.4 million N95 masks 297 million surgical masks Those distributions will continue. To protect our nurses, doctors, farmworkers, and more -- and help CA flatten the curve.
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Solidarity finds a way!
My instrument isn't portable to the picket line, but I enjoyed representing @UAW5810 by playing Solidarity Forever on the Berkeley carillon tonight. #FairUCNow
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The 10 happiest countries in the world: 1. Finland 🇫🇮 2. Denmark 🇩🇰 3. Norway 🇳🇴 4. Iceland 🇮🇸 5. Netherlands🇳🇱 6. Switzerland🇨🇭 7. Sweden 🇸🇪 8. New Zealand🇳🇿 9. Canada 🇨🇦 10. Australia🇦🇺 All have among the highest rates of #Union membership in the world! #UnionsEqualHappiness
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Or maybe, just hear us out, you could pay your workers a living wage instead
Amazon’s Bezos says he’ll send a spaceship to the moon trib.al/GD7zFOp
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Friendly reminder that the @Teamsters represent more than 18,000 Costco workers from coast to coast. Unions raise standards & increase benefits for all workers, that's the #UnionDifference!
Costco has better pay and benefits than their competitors — and they make more money. Bosses who hurt workers to squeeze out more profit are also hurting their companies.
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Good Morning ☀️ #NoOnProp22
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With official strike sanction granted, UAW now has support of 1200 affiliates & 2 million members of @CaliforniaLabor.🔥 Building/Construction Trades supporting; Teamsters Joint Councils 7 & 42 issue sanction so members can honor picket lines. #FairUCNow washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Fed up with toxic bosses that don’t understand who keeps the place going? We can help - get in touch. #LoveWhereYouWorked unionizecalifornia.org
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‼️NEWS‼️ Justice takes many forms, and today it looks like a CA Superior Court judge invalidating #Prop22. This is a MAJOR and deserved win for drivers and gig workers. @seiucalifornia #1u
Breaking: CA Superior Court judge finds Prop 22 UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
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Every day we organize, we honor Cesar Chavez. We'll never stop. Rest in Power 👏👏👏 #CesarChavezDay #SiSePuede ✊️
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Today would be a GREAT day for Twitter employees to unionize #UnionizeTwitter
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After hearing the passionate stories from delegates on labor's role in dismantling systemic racism and ending police violence against Black, Brown and Indigenous communities, California Labor approved the Resolution on Racial, Social and Economic Justice. calaborconvention.org/wp-con…
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If this sign said "We're proud to offer all our employees at least $15 & a union" you wouldn't have to be apologizing to your customers, McDonald's #FightFor15
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Working people all across CA stand w/ the brave @UTLAnow educators who are putting it all on the line for their students & community today. Sisters & brothers, we're with you 💯% every day until you get a fair contract. When we stand together, we win! #UTLAStrong #UTLAStrike
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This is outrageous. Denying sex workers #COVID19 relief is blatant discrimination. Sex workers deserve to be afforded the same rights & benefits as any other employee. We stand with sex workers across the country because sex work is work. Period @APAGunion huffpost.com/entry/legal-sex…
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Thank you to all the @USPS workers, mail carriers, and @Teamsters who have been working extra days and longer hours delivering our gifts and packages to keep us connected to our loved ones during this stressful holiday season 🙏 @NALC_National @APWUnational #EssentialWorkers
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The California Labor Federation voted today to rescind the endorsement of Regina Marston in #CA42, following our democratic process. Racist or discriminatory statements and/or behavior go against our core values as a movement and won’t be tolerated.
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SNL breaks down the actor’s strike in a way even a drunk child can understand
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Their shoes might quit but they don’t. Farm Workers are on the march and they’re not stopping until they get justice in Sacramento. #AB2183
One of our marchers’ shoes began to separate at the sole from walking miles on hot pavement. When a community supporter came out to give us water, he noticed. They wore the same size, so he took his shoes off and traded. #AB2183
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Today we're honoring labor activist Mother Jones. She was a fearless fighter who helped coordinate major strikes, helped unionize workers and led the cause of abolishing child labor. Jones helped to shape a spirit of civil disobedience in the cause of justice. #WomensHistoryMonth
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Two great laws go into effect in California in 2025: teaching employment rights in high school (including the right to organize!) AND the prohibition on forcing workers to sit through mandatory anti-union captive audience meetings! #UnionizeCalifornia
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We stand with @IATSE members who are fighting to ensure that the most powerful media corporations on the planet treat the film & tv workers who produce their content with basic human dignity. #IASolidarity #IALivingWage #IAReasonableRest
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Coffee is always best brewed #UnionStrong! #Solidarity with all @SBWorkersUnited workers fighting for a union at Starbucks. The California labor movement has your back! #UnionsForAll #1u
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NEW: Governor Newsom has signed #AB2530, a bill providing access to healthcare for striking workers. “Workers have the right to stand up to their boss and go on strike to improve wages, working conditions and for a better life,” says @LorenaSGonzalez, 1/
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#BREAKING: LAUSD and @UTLAnow have reached a tentative deal to end the strike; Pending approval by UTLA membership vote & Board of Ed! Thank you @UTLAnow for fighting for our kids, public education & workers' rights. When we fight, we WIN! 👏🍎💪 #UTLAStrong @CFTunion @WeAreCTA
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L.A teachers are fighting for: • Smaller class sizes • An increase in support staff (counselors, nurses) • Fair wages • More funding • Regulation of charters • Our students Wear #red4ed in solidarity & help defend public education! ✊🏾✊🏼✊🍎 @UTLAnow #1u #UTLAStrike
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Grad students are workers. Want to form a union? unionizecalifornia.org
Graduate students are primarily students and trainees, not ordinary workers. Academia is a calling. I suspect unionization will tip the balance so faculty prefer, at the margin, to hire post-docs to do research in their labs rather than students. yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/…
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California Labor is all in on the congressional redistricting to prevent the Trump Takeover. If Texas Republicans go through with their scheme to rig the 2026 election by gerrymandering their state, our 2.3 million union members stand ready to stop them.
If they want to cheat, we will fight back. We are proud to stand with our Governor Gavin Newsom - @CaliforniaLabor President @LorenaSGonzalez
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The @MLBPA represents around 1,200 baseball players, many of them high earners. This is intentional solidarity— by joining the AFL-CIO, they’re affiliating with working-class unions, including thousands of concessions workers at baseball stadiums. huffpost.com/entry/baseball-…
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| ̄STAND ̄ | | WITH | | AMAZON | | WORKERS | | ______| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || /   づ It’s day two of the Amazon strike. Don’t cross the picket lines. #AmazonStrike #PrimeDay #Solidarity
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What’s more, 17,000 of these workers are striking for their very first contract. They’re fighting for fair pay, affordable housing, workplace equity for international scholars and working parents and other basic measures of dignity. dailycal.org/2022/10/26/uc-b…
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In case you (somehow) missed it: 48,000 University of California academic workers — postdoctoral scholars, graduate teaching assistants and researchers walked off the job this week in the largest academic strike EVER. latimes.com/california/story…
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This is what retaliation looks like. This is a reminder that retaliation is illegal. #UnionsForAll #1u @SBWorkersUnited
EXCLUSIVE: Pro-union Starbucks workers in Memphis speak publicly for the first time since being fired. They say they were fired for “policies that were never enforced before” including “working off the clock” by “locking the door.” “It’s to silence us and we won’t be silenced.”
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| ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ | | HAZARD PAY | | PPE & PAID | | SICK LEAVE | | FOR ALL | | ESSENTIAL | | WORKERS | |________ | (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || /   づ
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This is a national emergency. It's a stain on the very fabric of our nation. We call on Congress to immediately intervene to protect these children and families nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/mi…
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"A young generation of workers is waking up to the power and value of unions" Yes! Unions are how we balance the economic scales, today and in the future! #UnionsForAll #UnionStrong #1u @SBWorkersUnited @sbwuca
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Nearly 70% of millennials view unions favorably b/c "The labor movement is the perfect vehicle to harness (their activism) into a new wave of economic prosperity for younger workers. Millennials and unions are the perfect match." @AlexCatsoulis calaborfed.org/millennials-a…
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A rising tide lifts all ships, and academic workers are increasingly squeezed between suppressed wages and soaring costs. Mobilization at this scale has the potential to impact fundamental injustices within academia, beyond the UC system. dailynexus.com/2022-10-27/48…
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STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE. Show #solidarity with striking Uber and Lyft Drivers on May 8. Don't cross the picket line! #StrikeUberLyft #YesonAB5 #1u
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Ordering coffee from workers who are paid fair wages, protected and treated with dignity and respect, we like the sound of that! #Solidarity with unionizing Starbucks workers, we are looking forward to that #UnionStrong coffee! @SBWorkersUnited
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And in Fairfield, we are saying #HandsOff of our union contracts!
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In urging Gov. Newsom to sign #AB2183, Latino leaders from across California honor the service and sacrifice of those who shaped California’s farm worker movement. Read the full letter here: calaborfed.org/wp-content/up…
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Rose's are Red. 🌹 Violets are blue.💙 Organize your workplace. And become a #union member, too. ✊🏽 #HappyValentinesDay #1u
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| ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| | GIG WORKERS | | DESERVE | | BASIC RIGHTS | | _________ | (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || /   づ #Uber #Lyft and #Doordash are spending $200,000,000 to deny their drivers healthcare and a living wage. Stand with workers -- Vote #NoOnProp22
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HUNDREDS of your constituents are outside your office NOW @RepMcClintock! We demand you stand with working people, seniors - not wealthy billionaire donors and vote NO on the #GOPTaxScam! #KillTheBill #1u #SaveMedicare #SaveMedicaid @AFLCIO
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The #GOPTaxScam was always about giving rich people & big corporations tax breaks while slashing Social Security & Medicare for working people & seniors. We need #Taxfairness NOW. #TaxDay
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Statement from @CaliforniaLabor Federation leader @LorenaSGonzalez on the shocking veto of #AB316 by Governor Newsom tonight. #DriverlessIsDangerous
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COVID has made it painfully clear: Our health care system is broken. But we can fix it with #CalCare: Guaranteeing comprehensive, high-quality health care for ALL Californians. #AB1400 is the right policy. Now is the right time. @CalNurses
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CA is not going back. We're not going back to a time when there was no minimum wage. We're not going back to when women could get fired for taking leave to be with a newborn. We're not going back to a time when workers had no paid sick leave. We're not going back. #NoOnRecall
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Second paragraph of Twitter’s WARN letter: “No affected employee is represented by a union”
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Young workers "are seeing unions as the answer. A recent Pew study found 68% of 18-29-year-olds have a favorable view of unions." #Organize! #1u #UnionStrong #Janus calaborfed.org/millennials-a…
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When management says “we run things like a family here” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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Being exploited isn't "paying your dues" or "gaining experience." Put simply, it's someone with more power than you cheating you out of pay, respect & dignity because they can. This nonsense is why all workers -- and especially young people -- need a union on the job
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Every business exploits the young - it’s called gaining experience, and I don’t regret it one bit. If I hadn’t worked hard when I was younger, I wouldn’t have been given more responsibility and more money when I was older.
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🚨STATEWIDE STRIKE ALERT: Stand with 48,000 @UAW academic workers, who are the backbone of @UofCalifornia, in their fight for a fair contract and a more equitable UC system. Find a picket line near you! fairucnow.org/picket/ @sruuaw @uaw2865 @UAW5810 #SolidarityForever #1u
TOMORROW - @LorenaSGonzalez, @CaliforniaLabor, @nathanfletcher join us on the picket line at @ucsandiego for a press conference at 1PM.
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Through rain or shine, we will be standing with @UTLAnow educators on the picket line. 💪 #UTLAstrong #LAUSDStrike #1u
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“What he needs to do is what’s right for the workers, and what brings justice to their workplace.” Solidarity icon @tmorello’s free concert today called for support of #AB2183 and for solidarity with farm workers fighting to organize without intimidation. #UnionizeCalifornia
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California Labor Federation leader @LorenaSGonzalez's statement on the veto of Labor's priority bill #SB799. We will keep fighting until striking workers get the benefits we've earned.
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The $15 minimum wage was supposed to hurt New York City restaurants — but both revenue and employment are up. "A pay increase for low-wage workers doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game. In fact, the evidence suggests that everyone can win." @fightfor15 on.mktw.net/31WyG9Q
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We are all in to re-elect @POTUS and @VP in the 🇺🇸2024 election. Why? Because time and time again, President Biden and VP Harris have fought for & invested in working families. They know our economy works best when it works for all of us. #LaborforBiden
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Nearly 70% of millennials support unions. #LaborDay isn’t just a day to celebrate our past achievements. It’s a day to demand a future that’s #UnionStrong!
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