Leonid Baezhnev 🔥

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1 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read

haha oh my god that's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard

https://twitter.com/GloriaPazmino/status/1377614957878120451

Someone please hit him for this bullshit when they're debating: "Andrew wants to give your tax dollars to rich people who live in Westchester instead of funding our schools."

This is a good idea in theory, which in substance consists of Yang yelling at private banks to accept NYCID as a form of ID.

https://twitter.com/SallyGold/status/1377613604531343371

A city-sponsored public bank that would provide banking services to consumers and businesses would be very cool! Maybe merge it with the Municipal Credit Union, IDK. But that's not what Yang is calling for, at least based on that reporting.

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Leonid Baezhnev 🔥

1 Apr

I mean, this is why we need the PRO Act/union neutrality provisions on federally funded projects. Those wages will go up once you get mass unionization in those sectors.

https://twitter.com/JHWeissmann/status/1377606888519565314

Offshore wind is also going to be better compensated, so put a lot of money into that too.

But yeah. Some people are going to get paid less. The UMWA is never going to be happy with shutting down all the coal mines either. But we gotta make the "get inside the tent now or never" offer sweet enough.

Leonid Baezhnev 🔥

19 Mar

Pass the PRO Act with reconciliation.

https://twitter.com/BrandonMagner/status/1372948650318516237

Honestly, if the only thing you could do with it was enact really heavy fines for management (and only management) ULPs, that in and of itself would probably do a lot.

"back wages to employees, and twenty-times back wages as a punitive fine paid to the NLRB" would shut down smaller-scale union-busting right quick.

Leonid Baezhnev 🔥

18 Mar

scabs stop scabbing

https://twitter.com/annielogue/status/1372554858662928384

I cannot emphasize this enough.

https://twitter.com/rev_avocado/status/1372573174458630146

This is the fundamental issue, all their rhetoric about "protecting freelancers" aside. Folks want to protect their bread, and all power to them, but don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

https://twitter.com/rev_avocado/status/1372578840791371782

Leonid Baezhnev 🔥

7 Mar

The Danish social democrats voted for a bill that would seize jewelry from refugees to pay for their detention.

https://twitter.com/Amysaysfuckalot/status/1368391867155484673

Anyway, this isn't to say that American politics isn't a hellscape, but so is European politics outside of like, Portugal and Ireland.

Also, gotta love Italian politics, where three of the top five parties are quite directly fascist and one is a fash-curious primal scream of populist rage.

Leonid Baezhnev 🔥

7 Mar

Damn son here we goooooooo.

https://twitter.com/ZackFinkNews/status/1368653562570539009

Stewart-Cousins is extremely well-liked across her caucus, moderates, liberals and socialists. If she's coming out for this, I think this is happening. politico.com/states/new-yor…

Ope, sorry, just gonna stick the knife in there!

https://twitter.com/katieglueck/status/1368658665184653316

Leonid Baezhnev 🔥

7 Mar

My labor law people: given how much B2B commerce Amazon does, would this not raise an 8(b)(4) issue which RWDSU would be liable for?

https://twitter.com/MClendaniel/status/1368597181767114752

Like, arguably a boycott call would be covered by DeBartolo's persuasive handbilling exception, but that was for explicitly consumer boycotts. If businesses get involved, I think there's at least arguably a secondary strike issue.

Anyway, that might explain why the union is making it really clear that they aren't involved.

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