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Hamilton Nolan: People need healthcare, higher wages. Climate change is a real issue, as is homelessness. When we get in these culture wars, all the oxygen is sucked out of the room.
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Hamilton Nolan: When you're a journalist & part of the media, hopefully you follow these things a little more closely. We've seen the playbook before in the 90s, with gays in the military, flag burning...We need to get to the real issues.
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Hamilton Nolan: The Labor movement itself is the vision --they address racial & gender inequality, for ex. The Labor movement can change the electorate of America. People are seeing a democratic organization at work on the picket lines.
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Hamilton Nolan: People have a hard time thinking about politics b/c of what they hear talked about in the media. I want ppl to take a deep breath & ask themselves what the real issues are we need to survive. It ain't CRT. It's climate change, more
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Hamilton Nolan: A lot of this can be contributed to having Trump as Pres; he was a reality show president.
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Hamilton Nolan: @alexnpress is a great Labor reporter. @IATSE had two contracts--one narrowly passed the popular vote & one narrowly didn't, but because of their electoral college-style system, both contracts passed.
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Hamilton Nolan: No union should ever have a contract passed that wasn't supported by the majority. I imagine those rules will be changed so that never, ever happens again.
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Rick: @alexnpress explained that the core issue was not addressed in the contract, and that issue was more time off.
Hamilton Nolan: It's very disappointing to see an ending like this.
Rick: They still did better than they would have w/o a union.
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Hamilton Nolan: I don't want to tell any IATSE member what to do, but I would like to have seen a better outcome.
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Hamilton Nolan: There's been a big wave of unionization in the non-profit world the last 5 years. I wrote about the union drive going on in the ACLU in Illinois. They asked for recognition in June & didn't get it.
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Hamilton Nolan: The ACLU is telling 40% of the workforce they're supervisors. The ACLU, of all places.
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Hamilton Nolan: It's really important that people read about stories like Starbucks firing the lead person trying to organize Starbucks. That kind of union-busting is unacceptable. The best thing these workers have is public outcry.
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Check out Hamilton Nolan's pieces here, incl those on the ACLU & @IATSE:
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