The largest UPS local union of 12,000 members at UPS’s World Hub in Louisville voted no against the UPS contract.
The powerhouse local could inspire others to turn against the controversial contract. wdrb.com/news/business/…
Members upset over maintaining “part time” workers, forced to work full-time hours at lower rates.
Teamster Prez O’Brein has slowed ratification voting till August 22nd to rally support of controversial deal.
The son of a 15-year-old mother, he grew up in housing projects. He ran 3 times for State Rep before beating an incumbent in 2012.
My look at a new era in Pittsburgh politics paydayreport.com/activists-swit…@GaineyForMayor “I feel shocked,” said 62-year-old Black activist Rita Garmany. “Growing up in Pittsburgh, I never could imagine that we would have a Black mayor and I was gonna fight as hard as I could to see to it. I am just in awe that Pittsburgh chose @GaineyForMayor" paydayreport.com/activists-swit…
Mar 8, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
The tide has turned at Amazon in Alabama completely in the union’s favor.
Biden’s support was a game changer - I’ve never seen anything like it
I was there in Nissan in Canton, Miss in 2017 when a majority Black workforce voted down uaw as workers feel victim to divide & conquer tactics.
Workers at Amazon, Biden & BLM learned lessons of that defeat & pushing forward
They even got local authorities to shorter traffic lights outside of the plant gates to make it more difficult to hand out union lit paydayreport.com/amazon-offers-…
Jul 9, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
“This could be a growth & power building moment for unions, & it’s not because there is a lack of vision" - @neidid
Since June 1st, there have been over 600 BLM inspired strikes
Black & Brown workers talk their frustrations w/ traditional labor leaders. paydayreport.com/how-black-brow…@neidid “A lot of people may say this is not a strike, well, you tell that to these workers now who are getting their grievances heard,” @marqlamar on non-traditional strike wave in non-union workplaces inspired by BLM
Striking garbage workers in New Orleans, making $10.25 an hour, were fired en masse this week.
Now, they are being replaced by prison labor.
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“$10.25 to pick up trash - come on now. It’s contaminated now with coronavirus,” strike leader Gregory Woods told Payday Report.
"It's frustrating. They always say listen to black women" says 30-year old WalMart worker & Bernie supporter Just Asia.
"And then its like don't listen to those black women. Listen to the ones we want you to listen not the ones that actually gotta to work at 3 in the morning".
"What can WalMart say to the President of the United States if he saying that I want my people to unionize, thats a different kind of motivation" - WalMart worker Just Asia on why WalMart workers are the biggest group of donors to the Bernie Campaign
Jan 4, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
A bunch of Nazis just tried to invade anti-war rally and got a classic yinzer anti-fa boot.
Wild scene.
They were holding these anti-Semitic signs earlier
Aug 8, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: The raid that detained 680 immigrants in Miss. comes after Koch Food Inc. paid $3.5 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit at the plant.
Workers at the plant are members of @UFCW & plan to fight back
paydayreport.com/ice-raids-miss…@UFCW Conditions were so bad at the plant that the EEOC forced the company to install a 24 hour hotline to report sexual and other forms of harassment
I literally sat directly infront of @IsaacDovere when I worked @politico and the off the record conversations that I heard Dovere have with his sources showed he was total access journalist.
@IsaacDovere sat next to his drinking buddy Glenn Thrush - he heard all the same terrible stuff about women from Thrush that I heard.
Throughout Glenn being accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, Dovere kept his mouth shut.
Yesterday I saw a black man being searched by undercover cops in the Amtrak station in my hometown of Pittsburgh.
I stopped to record it, identified myself as a journalist, & was threatened w/ arrest for illegal wiretapping unless I erased the recording paydayreport.com/pa-police-thre…
Last night, when I got into Pittsburgh’s Amtrak station, I spotted a black man being cornered by several undercover Pa state police. They immediately began patting him down and searching his stuff paydayreport.com/pa-police-thre…
Jan 28, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Due to underfunding, thousands of mold-infested plywood trailers are used as classrooms in Virginia
Meanwhile, @GovernorVA is proposing to give $750 million to Amazon.
Today's teachers in Richmond are taking off work & taking to the streets to protest
