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1/15 The people who want to wipe out independent contractors are changing their messaging.
Pay attention to what’s happening right now in the press. Our opponents are trying to shift the narrative—with impeccable timing, ahead of upcoming congressional hearings on our issue.
Pay attention to what’s happening right now in the press. Our opponents are trying to shift the narrative—with impeccable timing, ahead of upcoming congressional hearings on our issue.
2/15 Two days ago, this story ran in the Los Angeles Times. In its first paragraph, the writer suggests (falsely) that virtually all independent contractors are being victimized by algorithms that are being used to determine things like pay rates.
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3/15 The story is based on “research” by Veena Dubal—a name well known to us. She’s one of the “researchers” whose work underpinned the mess in California that led to the #FreelanceBusting ABC Test law known as #AB5.
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I know facts can be stubborn, but one of the very first plans I released in this campaign was a plan to make things more affordable for Missourians.
🧵Allow me to break it down for you step by step:
🧵Allow me to break it down for you step by step:
We need to prevent another supply chain crisis like the baby formula shortage. We must prevent the next crisis by investing in American manufacturing, breaking up corporate monopolies, and ensuring our negotiated trade agreements allow for the quick import of basic necessities.
We need to increase support for American farmers and bring food prices down. This year, American farmers are slated to spend $40 billion more in farm production expenses, as compared to 2020. In the Senate, I will prioritize fixing supply chain issues that impact our farmers.
Antonio Vicent ha hablado de prevención en efermedades de #hongos que amenazan la #citricultura.
Inspecciones necesarias, pero también:
🟡 Planes de contingencia
🟠 Actitud proactiva para prepararnos para posibles entradas
🟢 Ejercicios de simulación con el sector
#citrusforum
Inspecciones necesarias, pero también:
🟡 Planes de contingencia
🟠 Actitud proactiva para prepararnos para posibles entradas
🟢 Ejercicios de simulación con el sector
#citrusforum
La gestión #sostenible de #plagas,
desde la perspectiva de los retos y oportunidades,
del conocimiento de las nuevas plagas,
facilitando la información sobre el momento óptimo de tratamiento en cada finca #CroppingView
🗣️ Francisco Javier Pérez @Bayer4Crops
#citrusforum
desde la perspectiva de los retos y oportunidades,
del conocimiento de las nuevas plagas,
facilitando la información sobre el momento óptimo de tratamiento en cada finca #CroppingView
🗣️ Francisco Javier Pérez @Bayer4Crops
#citrusforum
Starting soon! Make sure to tune in - we have important issues to discuss for working families. #MedicareForAll, #GreenNewDeal, #PROAct, and #StopLine5 are all on the line. LINK:
#Proven #ProWorker #Progressive @OurWisconsinRev
#Proven #ProWorker #Progressive @OurWisconsinRev
@OurWisconsinRev I will never take fossil fuel money. Fossil fuel interests are holding us back from real progress on fighting climate change, including passing a #GreenNewDeal - @OurWisconsinRev #WISen
“Don’t forget. This is the senate seat of Russ Feingold. There is an obligation for the next Senator to continue his legacy.”
What is union-busting?
Union-busting is any action by management to prevent workers from exercising their right to organize.
Companies spend $$$$ to silence workers every year.
Let’s break down this example of union-busting from @GoogleFiber subcontractor @BDSConnected ⬇️
Union-busting is any action by management to prevent workers from exercising their right to organize.
Companies spend $$$$ to silence workers every year.
Let’s break down this example of union-busting from @GoogleFiber subcontractor @BDSConnected ⬇️
So this intro immediately tries to 3rd party our union.
Yes, the NLRB did notify BDS Connected Solutions BUT we, the ACTUAL WORKERS, sent an email before filing with the NLRB to notify management that we (the workers) had organized a union.
Yes, the NLRB did notify BDS Connected Solutions BUT we, the ACTUAL WORKERS, sent an email before filing with the NLRB to notify management that we (the workers) had organized a union.
Already management is looking to ignore our direct communication and belittle our power.
@CWAUnion is not unionizing SOME employees….we, the SUPERMAJORITY of workers, have organized our own union.
@CWAUnion is not unionizing SOME employees….we, the SUPERMAJORITY of workers, have organized our own union.
[THREAD] Dear @PattyMurray , I received an email from you today earnestly asking for input. You wrote "I can’t tell you how important your voice is to me. What I hear from folks like you in Washington state drives everything I do in the other Washington." So I wrote you back...1/
Unfortunately, my email was returned undeliverable. Strange, since you so desire to hear from the public. So I thought I'd copy my letter here.
Senator Murray:
I am a one-issue voter.
I live in California under the crushing oppression of #AB5, now a.k.a #AB2257. 2/
Senator Murray:
I am a one-issue voter.
I live in California under the crushing oppression of #AB5, now a.k.a #AB2257. 2/
This law has made California independent solo business owners like me ( I am a marketing consultant, writer and illustrator) unable to earn a living as before, because our clients and prospects understandably fear misclassification fines. 3/
Sherrod Brown:I objected to the term "Rust Belt" years ago; our manufacturing processes are no longer what they were. I grew up with kids whose parents worked in various auto industries in OH, & we're not every going to have quite that again
@SherrodBrown #BuildBackBetter #ProAct
@SherrodBrown #BuildBackBetter #ProAct
Sherrod Brown: Intel has promised me their new jobs will all be union jobs, & I'm going to watch them to make sure that's true. These will be good-paying jobs. We've seen people's wages stay flat while CEO pay has skyrocketed.
@SherrodBrown #BuildBackBetter #ProAct
@SherrodBrown #BuildBackBetter #ProAct
Sherrod Brown: As recently as 1990, the US made 30% of the chips & semiconductors made in the world. Today it's 9%.
@SherrodBrown #BuildBackBetter #ProAct
@SherrodBrown #BuildBackBetter #ProAct
Once upon a time, a terrible disease swept the lands, prompting a great wave of resignations as low-waged workers walked off the job, rejecting offers of pay raises that would have been unthinkably lavish just a few years earlier. Their bosses went nuts. 1/
If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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The former employers of these workers slammed them as lazy and greedy, and called upon their fellow bougies to take up "unskilled" labor and scab those proles back into the workplace. When that didn't work, they passed laws that banned desperate bosses from bidding up wages. 3/
I want to pull out some of the great labor provisions in the House #BuildBackBetterAct
Tho reconciliation rules prevent Congress from completely re-balancing Corporate V Labor power, this bill is a big win for workers
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Tho reconciliation rules prevent Congress from completely re-balancing Corporate V Labor power, this bill is a big win for workers
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First, the @EdLaborCmte bill cracks down on Wage Theft, with hefty new fines (10X the old fines!) the @USDOL can impose when employers steal from their workers
This will make employers think twice and obey overtime and min wage laws
This will make employers think twice and obey overtime and min wage laws
Its important because @JaniceFine6 @jennround @Daniel_J_Galvin @RutgersCIWO documented that wage theft:
-is quite common
-the avg violation steals 20% of a workers wage
-affects women and people of color most, exacerbating the #WageGap
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-is quite common
-the avg violation steals 20% of a workers wage
-affects women and people of color most, exacerbating the #WageGap
equitablegrowth.org/research-paper…
Reporters often ask if service workers' recent compensation improvements will stick in the long-run.
To answer yes, one really needs a theory that something changed long-run.
To answer yes, one really needs a theory that something changed long-run.
I have the sense their compensation improvements are driven by short-term imbalances in adjustment speeds between supply & demand, not long-term changes in productivity or balance of power. So I'd bet no.
However, one big change does seem permanent: many organizations & workers invested in maximizing their ability to operate with geographically distributed teams. That capacity now exists & isn't going away.
Dear @GavinNewsom I sit here realizing that you are spending every day, fighting to keep your job, and the career you’ve built. You are trying to make the case that you should keep your job, and that’s a pretty terrible feeling. 1/
The irony is not lost on me that in early 2020, I was one of thousands of California freelancers, calling your office and the offices of my assembly person and senator, asking for help to keep my own livelihood, one I’d worked to build over a period of years, harmed by #AB5 2/
I called daily, wrote letters, took meetings with lawmakers explaining my #smallbusiness And while I got some sympathetic listening, there was no action taken to help professionals like myself from being cast aside. Frustrating as heck. 3/
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The data validates their perception. Since 1979, wages for workers in the bottom 90% grew by less than 24%. The decline in union representation has lowered the median hourly wage by $1.56, a 7.9% decline (0.2% annually), from 1979 to 2017.
The data validates their perception. Since 1979, wages for workers in the bottom 90% grew by less than 24%. The decline in union representation has lowered the median hourly wage by $1.56, a 7.9% decline (0.2% annually), from 1979 to 2017.
The past year has exacerbated real economic and social difficulties for working people in the United States and has only made pre-existing disparities worse.
Our decades-old labor laws are no longer equipped to protect worker voice on the job or to promote collective bargaining as originally intended.
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In truth, the PRO Act merely codifies the NLRB’s existing practice, which has been in effect for over six years, to ensure workers have access to convenient and timely information leading up to the election.
In truth, the PRO Act merely codifies the NLRB’s existing practice, which has been in effect for over six years, to ensure workers have access to convenient and timely information leading up to the election.
Eligibility list privacy concerns are a red herring created by employer groups and corporations who fundamentally oppose the PRO Act.
The NLRB itself and multiple federal courts have acknowledged that the very eligibility list requirements found in the PRO Act do not pose increased privacy concerns.
Passage of the #PRO Act is the top priority of the labor movement. It is supported by the AFL-CIO and its 56 affiliated unions. The #PROAct has also been endorsed by unaffiliated international unions and a wide variety of civil rights, religious, and environmental organizations.
Strengthening outdated labor law is key to rebuilding the economy and restoring fairness to the workplace. We urge you to support this vital legislation.
To date, you have heard from workers, union leaders, and allied organizations about the urgent need to pass the #PROAct, which would give workers a voice at the table to bargain for better wages, retirement, health and safety standards, and other vital benefits.
It has become clearer than ever: to save American democracy, we need democracy in the U.S. Senate.
And that means passing labor law reform and voter protection legislation with a simple 50-vote majority.
We cannot allow the minority to block the will of the American people, expressed decisively in the 2020 elections.
We cannot allow the minority to block the will of the American people, expressed decisively in the 2020 elections.
And we cannot afford to let any of our agenda—from democracy in the workplace to democracy at the ballot box to investments in our people—fall victim to a procedural tool conceived in segregation.
NLRB documents reveal aggressive, flagrantly illegal union-busting by Tesla under @ElonMusk.
Tesla autoworkers are fired, interrogated, photographed, verbally harassed by security—all in violation of federal law, the NLRB found.
Threading newsworthy findings below (1/)
Tesla autoworkers are fired, interrogated, photographed, verbally harassed by security—all in violation of federal law, the NLRB found.
Threading newsworthy findings below (1/)
2. The NLRB investigated Tesla's firing of Richard Ortiz for trying to organize a union. The agency ruled the firing was illegal—but the probe uncovered much more.
For example, how Tesla deployed security to harass autoworkers if they passed out union pamphlets:
For example, how Tesla deployed security to harass autoworkers if they passed out union pamphlets:
3. In the span of just 3 hours one morning, Tesla security guards harassed workers handing out fliers 6 separate times. Different guards each time.
One guard declared that “unions are worthless” and “no good” and people “should not join one.”
One guard declared that “unions are worthless” and “no good” and people “should not join one.”
New polling by @MorePerfectUS and @DataProgress:
- Voters support the #ForThePeopleAct by a 32-point margin
- Voters support the #PROAct by a 16-point margin
- Support for these bills *increase* as voters learn more about the policy specifics
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- Voters support the #ForThePeopleAct by a 32-point margin
- Voters support the #PROAct by a 16-point margin
- Support for these bills *increase* as voters learn more about the policy specifics
perfectunion.us/new-poll-major…
The PRO Act would overhaul existing labor law and expand workers’ rights to form a union, so that more workers could collectively bargain for better wages and working conditions.
After hearing a brief summary of the bill, likely voters supported it 53% to 37%.
After hearing a brief summary of the bill, likely voters supported it 53% to 37%.
We then asked likely voters about 13 labor reforms included in the PRO Act. Pluralities supported 12 of the 13.
By a ~40-point margin, voters backed provisions to reinstate illegally fired workers, block immigration status discrimination, & prevent worker misclassification.
By a ~40-point margin, voters backed provisions to reinstate illegally fired workers, block immigration status discrimination, & prevent worker misclassification.
One of the Biden admin's most important pieces of legislation is the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (#PROAct), which reverses decades of union-busting policies and laws that have led to widening inequality, wage stagnation, and working poverty across America.
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It's the first pro-worker law since 1935's NLRA, and it restores many of the rights to organize unions and create serious penalties for employers who break the law to prevent their workers from unionizing (today, employers break labor laws with impunity).
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For a great, plain-language breakdown of its contours, check out this breakdown by @GrimKim, @TeenVogue's labor reporter. Note that the law bans many of the dirtiest tricks used by Amazon to defeat the union drive in its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse.
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NEW: The AFL-CIO labor federation says it’s spending seven figures on television and radio ads aimed at bolstering Senate support for the #PROAct, which would make it easier for workers to join unions.
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We're mobilizing for the #PROAct by reminding folks of what they already know: getting a return on your hard work shouldn’t be this hard. #1u
Check out a few of our new ads running across the country. ⤵️
Check out a few of our new ads running across the country. ⤵️
In Arizona:
To help us launch our new website, we partnered with some comrades of ours. @malcolmkenyatta penned an editorial on why he thinks the #PROAct is right for Pennsylvania. It's a must-read. Check out this exclusive here: paspotlight.org/2021/malcolm-k…
"We desperately need stronger protections for workers across industries, so we reverse this trend and get on the path towards a strong and thriving middle class in PA — and in the US at large." - @malcolmkenyatta
"Unions give a voice to workers in a way they do not have on their own: a stronger voice to fight for better wages, the ability to improve the quality of jobs and increase job security while guarding against discrimination of all forms." - @malcolmkenyatta
🔺3k workers (20-69 yrs) perished in #CdnPoli pandemic @CPHO_Canada. Hard to get good official #OSH info . Using #ONpoli @WSIB injury reports & PHU data from
@TOPublicHealth &
covid-19.ontario.ca
to estimate where fatalities might b . #TOpoli #PaidLeave #SickPlan #COVIDZero
@TOPublicHealth &
covid-19.ontario.ca
to estimate where fatalities might b . #TOpoli #PaidLeave #SickPlan #COVIDZero
#Pandemic #ONpoli work hotspots inc warehouse, transport, health, #OntEd, manu, construction, stores & offices. Adj fatalities for #excessdeath as per @MoriartyLab . #DayOfMourning @FredHahnCUPE @HarveyBischof @ETFOpresident @aefopresidence @OECTAProv @SharleenStewart @FolkDawson
#Pandemic toll on #ONpoli workers disproportionate across province. #Resist #RightToRefuse #PaidLeave #SickPlan #OSH #PPE #Airborne #Transparency #FollowTheScience #Essential #TOpoli
@DrNancyOlivieri @jkwan_md @McDevonMD @DGBassani
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@DrNancyOlivieri @jkwan_md @McDevonMD @DGBassani
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If you’re a freelancer or independent contractor, the #PROAct comes down to risk management. We have decent control over the risks in our business. Work hard, price right, diversify your clients/industries/skills and you’ll stay busy. 1/11
#NoPROAct #FightForFreelancers
#NoPROAct #FightForFreelancers
But there are also exogenous risks. #Freelance clients disappear for a variety of reasons, many of them beyond our control. 2/11
Over the course of 22 years, I’ve lost biz to budget cuts, bankruptcies, PMs or editors who retired or moved to different companies, and full-time people hired to do the work I was doing as a #freelancer. Stuff happens. 3/11
NEW: The erosion of collective bargaining since 1979 has cost the median worker $3,250 annually. Declining unionization has driven 33% of the growth of the wage gap between high- and middle-wage earners.
We need the PRO Act. Learn more from @LarryMishel: epi.org/publication/er…
We need the PRO Act. Learn more from @LarryMishel: epi.org/publication/er…
Lower unionization has reduced wages by 7.9% since 1979.
But this deunionization wasn’t inevitable—it was a deliberate policy choice made on behalf of wealthy interests and corporations, and it can be reversed. epi.org/publication/er…
But this deunionization wasn’t inevitable—it was a deliberate policy choice made on behalf of wealthy interests and corporations, and it can be reversed. epi.org/publication/er…
The decline hit men the hardest given they were more likely to be in unions than women in 1979: The median hourly wage of men fell $2.49, which translates into a loss of $5,171 annually. However, current trends show that broadening unionization would benefit women as much as men.
Yesterday, @POTUS urged Congress to pass the #PROAct. Let’s talk about why unionizing is important for a caring economy and how this bill would dramatically expand worker rights:
Worker wages have been stagnant for decades while average incomes for the wealthiest 1% increased more than 184%!!! from 1980 to 2017. Mass inequality doesn’t just happen. It’s the result of deliberate policy choices to strip worker power in favor of keeping CEOs ultra-rich.
Unions are critical to workers’ ability to negotiate decent wages, benefits, and working conditions. They’re also effective tools against big businesses’ racist divide-and-conquer tactics. And they can help shrink the income gap between white, Black and brown workers.
