1. COVID-19 is engulfing India. 360,000+ new cases were reported in the last day, a record-shattering high.
On May 5, @POTUS can help end this horror by sharing our vaccine know-how with the world.
Time is running out. This is a crisis.
2. The crisis has consumed the nation. India's government says 200,000 people have died, but it's likely far worse.
People are dying on hospital steps without oxygen tanks. COVID drugs are selling for 10x their value on the black market. thedailybeast.com/black-market-h…
3. India's crematoriums are at a breaking point. They've been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres on spare patches of land.
"We start at sunrise and cremations continue past midnight," a priest told @AFP next to smoldering piles of ash.
4. People are scrambling to save their families. Hospitals are overrun, patients turned away.
"There are no beds. What will I do? I can't even take him anywhere else as I have already spent so much money and don't have much left," one man told the BBC.
5. Doctors are taking to social media to plead for oxygen and other critical supplies.
“I need 50 cylinders, we are getting only 10. We have not slept for 4 days looking for oxygen. Please help us.”
6. A generation of Indian children are experiencing irreparable harm during the pandemic.
Even before the second wave began, studies estimated 375 million children there would suffer long-lasting health and economic impacts. cseindia.org/the-pandemic-w…
7. Now, more kids than ever are coming down with COVID-19 themselves.
The mutations of the virus in India are causing them to experience more — and more serious — symptoms.
8. Next week, at the World Trade Organization, President Biden will make a pivotal decision.
He can either protect the profits of Big Pharma, or help end the pandemic worldwide by allowing nations like India to manufacture their own COVID vaccines.
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BREAKING: Apple Store workers in Maryland have made history, securing the first-ever tentative union contract at the world's most valuable company. Under the agreement, the workers will win 10% raises, scheduling improvements, limits on contracted workers, and more.
These workers launched their organizing drive well over two years ago with @MachinistsUnion and were met with relentless union-busting by Apple, which publicly claims to maintain the "highest standards of labor conduct."
@MachinistsUnion After they made history and won the company's first union, the NLRB charged that Apple illegally withheld benefits from these Maryland workers to discourage Apple Store workers from organizing. theverge.com/2023/11/22/239…
NEW: Uber Eats, Grubhub, and Seamless want you to blame higher prices on minimum wage laws.
It’s a lie.
The truth is they gobbled up the entire food delivery industry, and now they’re charging you higher prices because you have no other choice.
We found receipts for an identical delivery order made at a Chinese restaurant in 2019 and 2024.
In 2019, the order cost $19.47 — or $26 adjusted for inflation.
Today that order costs $36.
It’s part of what @doctorow calls “enshittification” — when corporations take over things that are working perfectly fine, turn them into profit machines, and degrade the quality for the rest of us.
Donald Trump and JD Vance just raised $2 million at a fundraiser hosted by coal executive Joe Craft and fracking billionaire Harold Hamm.
It was the single largest political fundraiser in Oklahoma history.
This is Trump's strategy, fundraisers by and for the super rich. 🧵
2) Joe Craft is the CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, a coal executive who has overseen hundreds of labor violations at his company and has an intimate relationship with Trump, with his wife being appointed U.N. Ambassador during Trump’s presidency. eenews.net/articles/coal-…
3) Tomorrow, a Trump fundraiser in Nashville will take place next to the Bitcoin Conference. If you donate $844,600 to the Trump 47 Committee, you get to sit at a table with Trump. If you pay $60,000, you get a photo.
Multiple large unions have now endorsed Kamala Harris, while also expressing concern that her campaign is eying Senator Mark Kelly for VP.
His refusal to support the PRO act, a core goal of the labor movement that would make union organizing easier, is raising alarm.
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2) As John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union and an ally of President Joe Biden, told ABC News, “Why would the Democrats even consider a senator for the vice presidency if the senator doesn't support the PRO Act?” abcnews.go.com/Politics/labor…
3) Richard Bensinger, the former organizing director at the AFL-CIO, the largest labor organization in the U.S., recently posted the following:
An Olympics’ opening ceremony rehearsal "did not go as planned" after dancers raised their fists to protest unequal treatment instead of dancing.
The dancers have now filed a strike notice, and they’re not the only Paris workers on the verge of striking.
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A union representing workers at Paris’ two major airports has filed a strike motion for July 26, the date of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games.
The Force Ouvrière (FO) union represents 11.5% of workers at the Orly and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airports. /2
The union has filed a motion for a one day strike, but that day is the entire opening day of the Paris Olympics.
These vital workers want increased bonus pay for working through the turbulent beginning of the Olympics. /3 connexionfrance.com/news/paris-air…
It’s time to be clear on what Trump, Vance, and the GOP really think about working class people.
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2) When Trump was president, he oversaw a viciously anti-labor administration which stacked the NLRB with corporate lawyers, damaged collective bargaining rights for federal employees, and defended right-to-work laws. thehill.com/regulation/lab…
3) And in the midst of a pandemic, Trump orchestrated the loosening of worker safety regulations, making it easier for bosses to ignore the law. rollcall.com/2020/05/21/afl…