NEW: @EdMarkey tells Senate Democrats: We can't let bipartisan theater get in the way of dealing with the climate crisis — again.

His signature climate change bill died in the Senate in 2010. But our planet doesn't have another decade to waste.
@SenMarkey’s climate change bill of 2009 failed because the White House spent months chasing Republicans votes.

“The White House and Congressional leadership told us they would send my bill to the Senate once we passed a health care law and other legislative priorities.”
“It's 12 years later, and Congress still hasn't passed big legislation to address the climate crisis."

"Today, I see the same process playing out. Democrats are being told we can pass a climate bill after we pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill.” - @SenMarkey
Senator Markey won a historic victory in his primary by campaigning for a Green New Deal to create millions of good union jobs and solve the climate crisis.

He’s calling for Democrats to pass Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan without Republican votes.

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EXCLUSIVE: A veteran Tesla worker has come forward to detail extraordinarily dangerous conditions at @ElonMusk's auto factory.

"It was like a modern-day industrial sweatshop," said Dennis Duran, who worked at Tesla’s Bay Area plant for 5 years.
Duran’s Tesla stories are harrowing:

"Someone got their leg run over. People were sent home for exhaustion. They were throwing up at random because they didn't have enough water.”

"Management never really cared. All they care about is hitting numbers and pleasing @ElonMusk."
For years, Tesla had injury rates far higher than other carmakers.

In 2019, Tesla claimed its rate dropped. But a damning report later found Tesla under-reported worker injuries that year.

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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. Image
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NLRB documents reveal aggressive, flagrantly illegal union-busting by Tesla under @ElonMusk.

Tesla autoworkers are fired, interrogated, photographed, verbally harassed by security—all in violation of federal law, the NLRB found.

Threading newsworthy findings below (1/)
2. The NLRB investigated Tesla's firing of Richard Ortiz for trying to organize a union. The agency ruled the firing was illegal—but the probe uncovered much more.

For example, how Tesla deployed security to harass autoworkers if they passed out union pamphlets:
3. In the span of just 3 hours one morning, Tesla security guards harassed workers handing out fliers 6 separate times. Different guards each time.

One guard declared that “unions are worthless” and “no good” and people “should not join one.”
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EXCLUSIVE: This ex-Tesla autoworker is exposing what's happening inside @elonmusk's company.

Richard Ortiz tried to organize his coworkers at Tesla's CA factory. In response, Tesla "coercively interrogated" him three times, then fired him illegally, federal investigators say.
Ortiz is a career autoworker. He said Tesla is unlike anyplace he's worked.

- Extremely dangerous working conditions
- 12-hour shifts, 6 days a week, no questions asked
- Sick workers throwing up on the job to avoid being fired
- Brutal union-busting & hostile managers
Ortiz's account is backed by data. Injury rates at Tesla factories have been up to 31% higher than the industry standard.

Workers at Tesla have been:
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NEW: @McDonalds tried to silence Lizzet Aguilar for demanding safe working conditions during the pandemic.

She grabbed a megaphone instead.

Now, the movement she’s led is on the verge of passing historic legislation to transform the fast food industry.
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Meanwhile, McDonald’s and other highly profitable fast food corporations dole out millions in pay to CEOs.

Workers deserve $15/hr and a seat at the table.
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- Voters support the #ForThePeopleAct by a 32-point margin
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After hearing a brief summary of the bill, likely voters supported it 53% to 37%.
We then asked likely voters about 13 labor reforms included in the PRO Act. Pluralities supported 12 of the 13.

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