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21 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is offering $2,000 "Resignation Bonuses" to bust the union drive in Alabama.

Amazon is telling workers that they can quit now, take the $2,000 "resignation bonuses" & come back to work after the union election.

paydayreport.com/amazon-offers-…
Amazon is LITERALLY pulling out all the stops.

They even got local authorities to shorter traffic lights outside of the plant gates to make it more difficult to hand out union lit
paydayreport.com/amazon-offers-…
here are images of the "resignation bonuses" being sent to workers.
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9 Jul 20
“This could be a growth & power building moment for unions, & it’s not because there is a lack of vision" - @neidid

Since June 1st, there have been over 600 BLM inspired strikes

Black & Brown workers talk their frustrations w/ traditional labor leaders. paydayreport.com/how-black-brow…
@neidid “A lot of people may say this is not a strike, well, you tell that to these workers now who are getting their grievances heard,” @marqlamar on non-traditional strike wave in non-union workplaces inspired by BLM

Over 600 strikes since June 1st

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No longer are union leaders calling for strike votes w/ strict control of strike activity.

Now workers, often non-union,, are coordinating online & simply walking out.

My look at over 600 BLM inspired strikes since June 1st. paydayreport.com/how-black-brow…
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10 May 20
Striking garbage workers in New Orleans, making $10.25 an hour, were fired en masse this week.

Now, they are being replaced by prison labor.

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“$10.25 to pick up trash - come on now. It’s contaminated now with coronavirus,” strike leader Gregory Woods told Payday Report.

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NoLa refuses to meet with the striking garbage workers.

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1 Mar 20
"It's frustrating. They always say listen to black women" says 30-year old WalMart worker & Bernie supporter Just Asia.

"And then its like don't listen to those black women. Listen to the ones we want you to listen not the ones that actually gotta to work at 3 in the morning".
"What can WalMart say to the President of the United States if he saying that I want my people to unionize, thats a different kind of motivation" - WalMart worker Just Asia on why WalMart workers are the biggest group of donors to the Bernie Campaign
Wal-Mart worker Just Asia says she didn't vote for Obama either time cuz she didn't think he was for real.

Then she heard Bernie talking about systemic racism and she got on board.
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4 Jan 20
A bunch of Nazis just tried to invade anti-war rally and got a classic yinzer anti-fa boot.

Wild scene.
They were holding these anti-Semitic signs earlier
This entire incident happened a mile away from where 11 Jews were killed in the Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre.

Yinzers in the Burgh weren’t having it
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8 Aug 19
NEW: The raid that detained 680 immigrants in Miss. comes after Koch Food Inc. paid $3.5 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit at the plant.

Workers at the plant are members of @UFCW & plan to fight back

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@UFCW Conditions were so bad at the plant that the EEOC forced the company to install a 24 hour hotline to report sexual and other forms of harassment

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21 Mar 19
I’ve worked in newsrooms alongside both @IsaacDovere and @davidsirota

I literally sat directly infront of @IsaacDovere when I worked @politico and the off the record conversations that I heard Dovere have with his sources showed he was total access journalist.
@IsaacDovere sat next to his drinking buddy Glenn Thrush - he heard all the same terrible stuff about women from Thrush that I heard.

Throughout Glenn being accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, Dovere kept his mouth shut.

He was complicit google.com/amp/s/jezebel.…
One time I was at a going away party at PJ Clarke’s in DC for former AFSCME Comm Dir Chris Policano in Nov of 2015 with @IsaacDovere and Glenn Thrush.

Thrush started making crude jokes about who a woman at the party used to sleep in NYC political circles.

Dovere laughed hard
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