Why, other than it being the right thing to do, should you care about disability or welfare if you're not on it?

Put simply, self interest.

If you think you can separate their material conditions from yours, you're deluding yourself. 🧵

1/5

#Canlab #LivingWage
The low wages and rollback of labour rights for the worker under neoliberalism are connected to the low rates and degradation of those on benefits. The insufficiency of benefit programs, feeds a ready supply of labour to low wage paying employers. Trapping the working class

2/5
into a cycle of poverty whether they earn a wage or receive assistance.

If you are poor and look down on people on disability or welfare and support punitive measures intrusiveness, cuts and austerity etc. to social welfare recipients, what you are unwittingly supporting

3/5
is low wages and exploitation of those who work for a wage, because not only does the precariousness of social assistance ensure a class of desperate people who will take any job, no matter how awful; it ensures there is a class of employers who can get by paying marginally

4/5
better than welfare and not a cent more, and employers who do marginally better than they do and so on, all the way up the ladder.

Thus, standing up for those who work, means standing up for those who can't / don't work as well.

5/5

#ODSPoverty #ODSP

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Transport XLR

Not a working class Joe. A Capitalist enterprise. The employees are working class. #GoHomeFluTruxKlan
ANDY Transport.

Not a working class Joe. A Capitalist enterprise.
Paul Donaldson Construction. Not a working class Joe, a capitalist enterprise.
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If you're a business owner in a Blue Collar profession, you're not working class. You're a capitalist.

If you're working for a wage in a white collar industry, you are working class. Wage earners are working class. Owners are capitalists. #TruckersForFreedom2022
Also add, there will always be class conflict between owners and workers. No matter how small your business. We are not the same.

I.e. the capitalist's interests to pay the least for the most labour is always in conflict with the worker's interests to be paid more for less work.
Not a single trucker who owns their truck / company, no matter how small or modest the profit, is a member of the working class.

So no, I do not consider this a "working class" movement. This is a petty capitalist movement.
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FACT CHECK!

This is a heinous lie I continue seeing #LiberalTwitter tell, as some argument about #NDP obstructing the LPC, as an excuse for this election, let's unpack it.

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(1/9)

#DisabilityDebate #Elxn44 #CERB
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The Liberals wanted to fine/jail CERB recipients! (2/9)
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As someone who opposes Islamophobia, why should I vote strategically for a party that drafted a dog-whistle bill around it or that voted for it, over the NDP who didn't?

#Islamophobia #Elxn44 #cdnpoli
As someone who supports labour organizing, why would I vote strategically for a party who doesn't want to strengthen labour laws to support workers during strikes and lockouts, when the NDP does?

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@Scribulatora's post about #Pharmacare is baloney

Here's why:

First, the Hoskin's report that Liberals commissioned, says that there should be a Bill for Pharmacare passed BY January 2022. Bills pass 3 readings in the HoC before going to the Senate, they tabled NOTHING! (1/9)
Also, in the 2019 election, Liberals promised us Pharmacare and incumbent MP Patty Hajdu, just 3 MONTHS later, began walking back this promise in the media. (2/9)

#PromiseMadePromiseBroken #Elxn44 #ThunderBay
Add to that, in incumbent Chrystia Freeland's 2021 Budget, the Liberals allocated NOTHING NEW for Pharmacare!

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#UniRose
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