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  1. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    worth repeating: Senator called Musk a "dick boss – except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick" -- one of many "billionaire asshole bosses” 

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    #workerexploitation
  2. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Just 4 years ago: the campaign to win the Excluded Worker Fund, path-breaking relief that provided $15,000 on average, to undocumented immigrant workers who were excluded from federal assistance

    Parallels with the creation of UI in The Depression

    Base-Building in Community Organizing
    with Make the Road NY’s José Lopez and Ángeles Solis
    open.spotify.com/episode/0r2xq

    #socialsafetynet #taxonbillionaires #classdivide #guaranteedincome
  3. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    "Pay has been lousy for decades and jobs less secure because of the power of large corporations and the rich to rig the market and siphon off most of the economy’s gains."

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #parasiticalclass #workerexploitation
  4. LeftDemocrat @[email protected] ·

    Under the "Covid welfare state" : "For a brief period, and for the first time in history, Americans had a robust safety net: strong protections for workers and tenants, extremely generous unemployment benefits, rent control and direct cash transfers from the American government." Then it was rolled back overnight, by Republicans in control of the House.

    Unfairly, Democrats were blamed for benefits lost.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/
    #socialdemocracy #solidarity #unionstrong #guaranteedbasicincome

    #socialdemocracy #solidarity #unionstrong #guaranteedbasicincome
  5. LeftDemocrat @[email protected] ·

    Liz Shuler endorses Kamala Harris, as president of and first woman to lead the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, representing 60 national and international unions and nearly 13 million workers. Her home union is IBEW, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #UnionWorkers

    #unionworkers
  6. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    "untapped and unorganized": In 2020, in North Carolina, "there were over 1 million poor and low-wage voters that did not vote." In Michigan, in 2016, "over a million poor and low-wage voters didn’t vote". In Pennsylvania, "over 1.3 million poor and low-wage voters didn’t work."

    democracynow.org/2024/10/31/20

    #election2024 #voterparticipation #electionturnout
  7. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Illegal effort to relocate about 75 people living in tents beneath an overpass near the Superdome

    theguardian.com/music/2024/oct


    #tentcities #hoovervilles
  8. LeftDemocrat @[email protected] ·

    The singer songwriter Marc Anthony appears in a new ad 'Recuerdo' (I remember) in which he slams Donald Trump for comments he made about Puerto Rico during his presidency:
    m.youtube.com/watch?v=KbzYETgH
    #election2024 #LatinoVote

    #election2024 #latinovote
  9. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Staten Island: first-ever U.S. Amazon union, formed in 2022



    democracynow.org/2024/10/15/am

    #invisibleworkforce #workplacesurveillance #unionstrong
  10. LeftDemocrat @[email protected] ·

    Unhoused people age 60 and over found dead in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and on sidewalks.

    #heartlesscities #tentcities #Hoovervilles

    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

    #heartlesscities #tentcities #hoovervilles
  11. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Unhoused people age 60 and over found dead in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and on sidewalks.

    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

    #heartlesscities #tentcities #hoovervilles
  12. LeftDemocrat @[email protected] ·

    Unhoused people age 60 and over found dead in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and on sidewalks.

    #heartlesscities #tentcities #Hoovervilles

    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

    #heartlesscities #tentcities #hoovervilles
  13. LeftDemocrat @[email protected] ·

    Unhoused people age 60 and over found dead in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and on sidewalks.

    #heartlesscities #tentcities #Hoovervilles

    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

    #hoovervilles #tentcities #heartlesscities
  14. LeftDemocrat @[email protected] ·

    Unhoused people age 60 and over found dead in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and on sidewalks.

    #heartlesscities #tentcities #Hoovervilles

    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

    #heartlesscities #tentcities #hoovervilles
  15. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Donald Trump and others are threatening to force people into “tent cities”, meaning, the forced displacement of unhoused folks into internment camps out in the middle of nowhere

    theguardian.com/society/articl

    #cruelandunusualpunishment #hoovervilles #homelessinamerica #landofplentyofrepression
  16. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Two dozen children, some as young as 13 years old, in meatpacking plants

    democracynow.org/2024/5/8/head

    #migrantchildren #childexploitation
  17. LeftDemocrat @[email protected] ·

    In May, there’s a UAW vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama, and organizing efforts are also beginning at BMW, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, and Nissan plants, among others, across several Southern states.

    The current neoliberal #bizmodel is designed to deny workers fair pay in the South, says Andrew Wolf, a professor of global labor and work at Cornell University

    vox.com/money/2024/4/24/241386
    #LifeBetterWithAUnion

    #lifebetterwithaunion #bizmodel
  18. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    In May, there’s a UAW vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama, and organizing efforts are also beginning at BMW, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, and Nissan plants, among others, across several Southern states.

    The current neoliberal is designed to deny workers fair pay in the South, says Andrew Wolf, a professor of global labor and work at Cornell University

    vox.com/money/2024/4/24/241386

    #bizmodel #lifebetterwithaunion
  19. LeftDemocrat @[email protected] ·

    In May, there’s a UAW vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama, and organizing efforts are also beginning at BMW, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, and Nissan plants, among others, across several Southern states.

    The current neoliberal #bizmodel is designed to deny workers fair pay in the South, says Andrew Wolf, a professor of global labor and work at Cornell University

    vox.com/money/2024/4/24/241386
    #LifeBetterWithAUnion

    #lifebetterwithaunion #bizmodel
  20. LeftDemocrat @[email protected] ·

    In May, there’s a UAW vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama, and organizing efforts are also beginning at BMW, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, and Nissan plants, among others, across several Southern states.

    The current neoliberal #bizmodel is designed to deny workers fair pay in the South, says Andrew Wolf, a professor of global labor and work at Cornell University

    vox.com/money/2024/4/24/241386
    #LifeBetterWithAUnion

    #bizmodel #lifebetterwithaunion
  21. LeftDemocrat @[email protected] ·

    In May, there’s a UAW vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama, and organizing efforts are also beginning at BMW, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, and Nissan plants, among others, across several Southern states.

    The current neoliberal #bizmodel is designed to deny workers fair pay in the South, says Andrew Wolf, a professor of global labor and work at Cornell University

    vox.com/money/2024/4/24/241386
    #LifeBetterWithAUnion

    #lifebetterwithaunion #bizmodel
  22. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Hurricane Otis destroyed many health centres in rural communities around Acapulco. Others are closed due to a lack of staff and supplies. NGOs like Medical Impact have stepped in.

    "Often ranked among the world’s most violent, the municipality has more people in extreme poverty than any other in Mexico."

    theguardian.com/global-develop

    #classdivide #incomeinequality #wealthgap
  23. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Gruesome workplace death in Mississippi: Duvan Pérez, from Guatemala, was "pulled into a chicken deboning machine."

    democracynow.org/2024/1/19/hea

    #industrialfood #industrialeaters #chigenstrips
  24. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Latina women from immigrant communities in southern California continue their stand-up strikes into 2024, targeting hold-out hotels, such as the Hyatt Regency at Los Angeles international airport.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/j

    #lifebetterwithaunion
  25. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    "upsidedown policy" : We give the least help to the families who need it most.

    youtu.be/maQ27R1mNA8?si=NSWMGG

    #eitc #lowincomewomen #workingfamilies
  26. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Charities focused on helping the homeless in the U.S.

    charitynavigator.org/discover-

    #homelessinamerica #charitygiving
  27. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Unhoused communities are among the most at-risk during dangerous storms, exposed to the elements.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2021/d

    #homelessness #unhousedamericans #tentcity #hooverville
  28. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Hooverville re-ooens for 2,000 people as overflow measure in NYC: on Randalls Island, in the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx

    theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a

    #tentcity
  29. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Living in Hooverville: On hot summer days, a greenhouse effect can raise the temperature in your tent to above 140F (60C).

    theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j

    #tentcity #homelessinamerica
  30. LeftDemocrat @LeftDemocrat ·

    Federal program provides low-income families with a grand total of $120 to supplement food costs for the summer break between school terms.

    But hard-hearted Republicans want nothing of it.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/j

    #ebtcards #moderndayfoodstamps
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