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14 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
BREAKING: An Amazon worker just testified to the NLRB that he witnessed two Amazon security guards open and search the union ballot dropbox after his overnight shift.

“They had it open for a minute or two. Seemed like they were searching for something,” Kevin Jackson said.
Amazon installed the ballot dropbox in Alabama in direct violation of NLRB orders.

Jackson told the NLRB that he saw Amazon security carrying keys around the mailbox multiple times:

"I seen the security go out several times locking and unlocking it."

As More Perfect Union reported, emails subsequently showed that Amazon pressured the USPS to break its own rules to install the private ballot dropbox.

Today is day 6 of a series of NLRB hearings into accusations of illegal union-busting by Amazon. We've documented several of the serious charges.

They could result in the union election results at Amazon's Alabama warehouse being thrown out.

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15 May
Leaked footage from a Heritage Foundation donor conference reveals a coordinated, nationwide assault on voting rights.

The right-wing group is running a $24 million, 2-year voter suppression plan across 8 states.

Details in the thread below.
The Heritage Foundation has been working directly with top GOP state election officials for years. They’ve held private briefings with Republican secretaries of state, governors, attorneys general, and lawmakers on their voter suppression plan.
The group is targeting 8 states: Georgia, Florida, Nevada, Wisconsin, Texas, Arizona, Iowa, and Michigan. Why?

“If maybe two, maybe three of these 8 states went a different way in November, we’d be having a different conversation here today.”
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14 May
NEW: Republicans have found a tax increase they love – a tax on working people.

Instead of taxing the ultra-rich, Republicans want to pay for infrastructure with a gas tax, user fees, and toll roads. These are taxes that disproportionately hit the poor and middle class.
Remarkably, Democrat @MarkWarner is supporting Republicans' plan to tax working people.

Sen. Warner told MSNBC: “I wish the president had not taken user fees off the table, whether gas tax or miles traveled. I think user fees make sense.”
Axios reports that @SenatorSinema and @SenatorCarper also "discussed the possibility of imposing user fees" with Biden in meetings this week.

These were two of the handful of Democratic senators who voted against raising the minimum wage to $15/hour in March.
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13 May
BREAKING: Leaked footage of a right-wing donor conference reveals a secretive plot to write and pass an avalanche of voter suppression laws.

"We did it quickly and we did it quietly," they admit.

Footage obtained by @ItsDocumented & published with @MotherJones.
Officials at @Heritage's private annual donor conference in April describe a full-on assault on democracy:

-Secret strategy meetings with GOP lawmakers to carry out voting restrictions. "No leaks."

-Drafting voter suppression bills on behalf of GOP reps
-They directly link their work to Trump's myth about 2020 election fraud

-They admit that they wouldn't be pursuing nationwide voting restrictions if Trump had won

-They acknowledge that stopping HR1/S1, the #ForThePeopleAct, is critical to their anti-democracy strategy
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12 May
Thread: GOP governors in 11 states are ending the extra $300 weekly payments to unemployed people, so they can force people to work for less.

In South Carolina that means choosing between:
-$290/week ($7.25/hr minimum wage job)
-$238/week in unemployment on average
It’s not just South Carolina.

GOP governors in Missouri, Iowa, Idaho, Tennessee, Wyoming, South Dakota and Utah are ending the extra $300 weekly payments to unemployed people from the American Relief Plan.

It’s part of the GOP’s war on poor people.
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GOP governors are working with lobbyists at places like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to exaggerate the worker shortage.

It's a ploy to cut unemployment benefits. There's a shortage of living wage jobs, not a shortage of workers.
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11 May
NEW: During the union election, Amazon representatives called workers at home to see if they had turned in ballots and if they needed any "help" filling it out.

At the NLRB hearing, Amazon worker Jennifer Bates shared how Amazon reacted to learning she was pro-union:
Warehouse employee Jennifer Bates worked as an "ambassador" at Amazon's Alabama warehouse, training and fostering a positive culture with new employees.

She went public with her union support in an interview last January.
By February, after going public about being pro-union, Amazon scrapped Bates's job without cause and placed her on the factory line, isolated from others.

Bates said they changed her role inexplicably despite knowing that she had health issues that made line work challenging.
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10 May
BREAKING: Amazon workers revealed new evidence of Amazon's illegal union-busting—including managers passing out coupons for 15 extra minutes of break time—at an NLRB hearing today.

Here's what Darryl Richardson, an Amazon warehouse worker in Alabama, told the NLRB:
Amazon sent workers the message that they would lose benefits & "their voice" under a union.

Workers got texts saying: "Protect what you have" and "Don't give up your voice."

In a meeting, workers were told, "You won't have a voice if the union comes in," Richardson said.
Per federal labor law, employers are forbidden from threatening employees "with adverse consequences, such as...loss of benefits, or more onerous working conditions, if they support a union, engage in union activity, or select a union to represent them."

nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rig…
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