NEW: We reviewed the 7 most far-reaching Republican voter suppression laws enacted this year.
Passing the #ForThePeopleAct would invalidate roughly 2/3 of their attacks on voting access.
The only way to save democracy is for Democrats to act. This is what's at stake:
Georgia’s infamous SB 202 remakes almost every element of the state’s election laws to make it harder for people of color to vote.
The For The People Act would end its onerous voter ID requirements, restore ballot drop boxes, and block partisan poll watchers, among other fixes.
In Florida, the #ForThePeopleAct would overturn much of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the GOP's assault on voters.
It would prevent the destruction of the state's mail-in voting list, stop extreme voter ID requirements, and end the criminalization of ballot delivery.
Iowa was the first state to pass an extreme voter suppression law this year.
The For The People Act would overturn Iowa’s new limitations on drop boxes, ban on ballot delivery, and harsh limits on sending absentee ballots.
Arizona — home of the conspiracy theorist-run “audit” — has also passed a number of voter suppression laws.
Republicans voted to end the state’s ultra-popular permanent vote-by-mail list and to make it harder to correct a ballot.
Both these laws would be overturned.
It got even more difficult to vote in Arkansas this year due to stringent new voter ID requirements, absentee ballot limitations, and a signature matching program.
In Montana, after a clean Republican sweep, the GOP legislature decided to further restrict ballot access.
The state ended same-day voter registration and now requires *two* forms of ID to vote in many cases. Both would be blocked by S 1.
In Kansas, a Republican supermajority overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto to enact a slew of new voter limitations and make a major legislative power grab.
The For The People Act would stop this election rigging in its tracks.
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The Lambeau Field vendors who provide endless beer for Green Bay Packers fans have approved a new union contract with huge raises — doubling pay for some workers. 🧵
More than 90 drink vendors work at Lambeau Field, employed by the corporation Delaware North. They unionized last year with the independent union @MASHworkers, which also represents workers at the home arena of the Milwaukee Bucks.
The FTC has also recently reached a settlement with Invitation Homes, the biggest owner of single family homes in the U.S.
The company is returning nearly $50 million to tenants after concealing the true price of rent and skimming security deposits. /3 substack.perfectunion.us/p/this-corpora…
THREAD: Amazon, Tesla, and Meta are among the biggest threats to democracy, a new report by the International Trade Union Confederation shows.
These companies and the billionaires behind them are trying to subvert laws, attack unions, and challenge the foundation of democracy 🧵
The ITUC determined that Amazon, Tesla, and Meta are among the worst offenders by looking at the ways each company opposes unionization efforts among their employees, as well as violations of union and human rights law and their contributions to the climate crisis.
In Amazon’s case, it is the 5th largest employer in the world and yet it has a track record of not cooperating with trade unions and flouting all kinds of international regulations. Amazon is currently refusing to engage in union talks in Germany. verdi.de/themen/geld-ta…
Thread: Private equity is involved in everything now, including housing.
Alden Global Capital has spent over $275 million on buying up more than 10,000 manufactured housing units to hike rent, enact junk fees, and evict people when they can’t pay.
Here’s how it went down 🧵
Alden Global Capital, already well known for buying and then shuttering physical newsrooms and leaving journalists without a place to do their work, have in recent years upped the ante by buying up housing units across 17 states. aljazeera.com/economy/2024/3…
These buy-ups are especially prominent in Illinois, Michigan, and Florida, with the latter being home to almost half of all of units now owned by Alden via Homes of America. Since 2021, Alden has issued eviction notices more than 285 times, with 68% resulting in orders to vacate.