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NEW: Tim Walz has emerged as a popular VP pick among labor unions, sources tell ABC News.
Walz has drawn support for his record of pro-labor legislation in a blue-leaning state and his potential appeal with voters in Midwest battlegrounds Wisconsin and Michigan, they said.
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SCOOP: Unions have united behind Kamala Harris but concern has emerged over the potential selection of Mark Kelly as VP due to his unwillingness to back the PRO Act.
"This is a huge problem," said one union president who back Harris but opposes Kelly as VP.
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Thirteen Congresspeople, including
@SenSanders
@AOC
@IlhanMN
, sent a letter calling on the Dept. of Labor to "immediately investigate chronic violations of workplace safety at all Amazon warehouses."
The letter cites this story
@SharifPaget
and I wrote
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Rev. William Barber addresses Trump: "So much, Mr. President, for your day of prayer." Calls it day of preying.
#FightFor15
#SEIU
#Mcjobs
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.
@FlyingWithSara
told ABC News that she considers Walz one of two top candidates for the vice presidential nod, along with Andy Beshear.
"It makes a lot of sense to lean in harder on workers’ rights when the MAGA talking points are trying to say they’re for working people."
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Fifteen mins after NYC curfew, dozens of police vans trailed
#BlackLivesMatter
protesters tonight as they marched up Rogers Ave. in Central Brooklyn.
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"Why would the Democrats even consider a senator for the vice presidency if the senator doesn't support the PRO Act?"
@TwuSamuelsen
told ABC News.
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"People are high on Walz," said Steve Rosenthal, a political consultant who has spoken with unions about the potential vice presidential nominee.
But, sources added, labor unions lack a consensus choice.
"Mostly people understand the desperate need to win,” Rosenthal said.
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NEWS: 600 Amazon workers at a warehouse in Staten Island have signed a petition protesting working conditions and demanding increased break time as well as company-provided Metrocards. Workers will deliver the petition in a protest outside the facility tonight.
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@TwuSamuelsen
""Senator Kelly is the son of two union police officers and has been a strong supporter of workers throughout his time in the Senate," Kelly spokesperson
@JacobNPeters1
told ABC News.
Kelly told
@HuffPost
in 2021 he supports PRO-Act's "overall goals" but has "some concerns"
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Funny, sharp take in
@Politico
newsletter about how
@SpeakerRyan
misspoke when he said he’d worked at
@McDonald
’s, rather than a franchise.
#Labor
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Last summer,
@SharifPaget
and I began requesting 911 reports for Amazon warehouses nationwide. What we got back startled us.
Thanks to everyone w/
@newmarkjschool
and
@dailybeast
who helped us on this.
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NEWS: UAW endorses Kamala Harris, who will rally with UAW workers in Detroit next week, union says.
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I asked
@stevenmnuchin1
about
@GretaThunberg
's call for fossil fuel divestment. He said, “After she goes and studies economics in college she can come back and explain that to us.”
#WEF2020
Here's the story:
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UPDATE: Kelly said that he would vote for the PRO Act. "I would vote for it today," he said.
@igorbobic
@jamieson
first reported.
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Some professional news...this week is my first as a reporter
@YahooFinance
. I'm excited to be here! Send all your tips and takes to max.zahn
@oath
.com
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Top U.S. union leaders call on Amazon to close all warehouses and give workers full leave pay until the company addresses coronavirus health risks. Backers of the demand include
@MaryKayHenry
,
@RichardTrumka
,
@rweingarten
who lead organizations with tens of millions of members.
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I was escorted off of Bronx Community College by security on two consecutive days in October. Wrote this piece for
@CJR
about the crackdown on journalists at public colleges in the era of
@realDonaldTrump
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Spoke to two labor allies of Biden who want him to step aside and a third who said they will back an alternative presidential nominee.
“There’s no a person in the labor movement who isn’t worried,” a labor leader told me.
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Gutting anecdote in this story from
@bencasselman
on the end of pandemic unemployment benefits ()
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An Amazon warehouse worker alleges he was fired for speaking out about the working conditions at a facility in Staten Island, where
@RWDSU
is trying to unionize employees. Amazon says the worker was fired for committing a safety violation.
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The union at an Amazon on Staten Island is leading with 55% of the vote after 1,298 votes.
Labor prof
@ErikLoomis
told me a victory at the facility would be "world-changing."
UPDATE: with 3/10 boxes fully counted
@amazonlabor
is currently winnings its elections 717-581, or a net of 136 votes.
No idea how many total ballots there are, i'd estimate upwards of 3,500 total. Unknown number of challenged ballots.
there have been 5 voided ballots.
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On
@HLNTV
,
@SharifPaget
and I talked about our
@thedailybeast
story that found 189 instances of emergency assistance summoned to Amazon warehouses for mental health episodes.
We discuss the current and former employees who said the stressful work contributed to their crises.
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100+ McDonald’s and other fast-food workers are on strike today in Tampa, St. Louis and Memphis,
@fightfor15
says. They're protesting unsafe working conditions, lost hours and pay cuts. Workers for Whole Foods, Amazon, and Instacart have also refused to work this week.
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.
@1199SEIU
and
@32BJSEIU
— with a combined 563,000+ members, two of most powerful union locals in NY and nationwide — endorse
#GreenNewDeal
. Clear signal to 2020 Democratic presidential candidates vying for major labor endorsements.
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"It appears that the West Virginia teachers’ strike will last indefinitely as rank and file teachers in a majority of counties around the state have promised to continue their strike until the state legislature addresses their concerns."
Breaking: Teachers union officials expect that that teachers in 50 counties of West Virginia Teachers will continue wildcat strike tomorrow.
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Sondland used "schlep" in an email to Pompeo. Big day for Yiddish.
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At noon
@SharifPaget
and I will be on
@HLNTV
talking about our
@thedailybeast
story that found 189 incidents of emergency assistance summoned to Amazon warehouses for suicide attempts and other mental health episodes across 46 warehouses in 17 states.
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I asked Google's meditation teacher
@chademeng
tough questions about corporate
#mindfulness
.
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Wrote about concern among progressive groups that the executive pay limits in the $2T
#coronavirus
stimulus are too lax, including comment from
@SenSanders
,
@_waleedshahid
,
@SarahDAnderson1
, and
@DTaylorUH
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Reading words of concern about racial injustice from CEOs at Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo — banks that paid $565 million combined to settle lawsuits over discriminatory home lending in the aftermath of the Great Recession, but did not admit wrongdoing.
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Potential Democratic VP pick Mark Kelly tells
@HuffPost
he would vote for the PRO Act a day after I reported concern among unions about his unwillingness to support the labor reform legislation.
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Sad to hear about the tragic and sudden death of SEIU 32BJ President Hector Figueroa (
@figue32bj
), one of the most powerful and influential labor leaders in NYC
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So excited for the launch of
@THECITYNY
today! They'd already been publishing impactful work without a website. Now they have a new shiny one.
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If you apply for a job, a robot will probably be the first thing to read your resume. For
@MONEY
, I talked to experts about how to make sure the robot puts you at the top of the digital pile. You're welcome!
#jobsearch
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Senior Advisor to Bernie Sanders doesn't mice words about comparison between Sanders and NY Gov Andrew Cuomo
The idea that Andrew Cuomo and Bernie Sanders are lock step on policy is 100% Grade A American bullshit.
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Rev. William Barber: "For 250 years, chattel slavery was the law of the land."
#fightfor15
#LaborDay
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@JusticeFastFood
@fightfor15
Mica Hargrove, an 18-year-old high school student from Queens, has worked at Arby’s for a year. She joined
@JusticeFastFood
in Aug when an organizer came to her store. “He’s telling me these are your rights,” she said. “I’m noticing my manager has never informed me of these." 2/x
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My first for
@YahooFinance
breaks down college football bowl teams by their apparel sponsor, with a great graphic from
@DFosterGraphics
. Bonus: Try counting the swooshes in the pic at your peril.
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Graduate student workers at the New School, in Manhattan, on strike for a fifth day.
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The shutdown no one is talking about
Public skating is postponed until 11:30am today due to rain.
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Yep, I'll be on the radio today talking about Amazon warehouse work! Here's a link if you want to give it a listen from 10-11am PT:
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Thank you
@craignewmark
for your generous gift to my school. And thank you
@nytimes
for dignifying it with the journalistic response it deserves: addressing the elephant in the room
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Big news. Chris Smalls, who rose to prominence as leader of watershed union victory at Amazon warehouse in 2022, will officially be replaced as head of Amazon Labor Union.
Breaking: Amazon workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island, New York, voted to elect reform officers in the first-ever leadership election.
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In response to
@GretaThunberg
’s call for fossil fuel divestment, Treasury Secretary
@stevenmnuchin1
tells
@YahooFinance
: “After she goes and studies economics in college, she can come back and explain that to us.”
#wef2020
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Community organizer and Democratic Socialist
@JuliaCarmel__
announced she's running for State Senate against incumbent Democrat
@SenatorDilan
. The district includes Williamsburg, Bushwick and Greenpoint.
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Civil rights groups are challenging an Alabama law that prevents Birmingham from enacting a citywide $15 minimum wage, on the grounds the law discriminates against black residents who receive disproportionately low wages
@fightfor15
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West Virginia teachers unions call for strike to start tomorrow in protest of an education bill that would create the state's first charter schools — a bill the unions consider retaliation for last year's strike.
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Advocacy groups will release a report today using OSHA data to show a 2018 rate of illness and injury at the facility that is three times higher than the overall national rate for warehouse work, the groups say.
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A set of unions and advocacy groups are involved in the protest, including
@nychange
@MaketheRoadNY
@ALIGNny
@cwa1102
@NelpNews
@TeamstersJC16
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I went on TV to talk about the best business TV of the year, including "American Factory," "Succession," and "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley"
Highlight: “Documentaries have had a huge resurgence,”
@maxzahn_
says about 2019 business movies. “With streaming, we see documentaries get attention they don’t often.”
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Fast food worker org
@JusticeFastFood
, launched today in NYC as the next step in the
@fightfor15
, is an advocacy group that—like a
#union
—is funded by dues deducted from workers' paychecks. It could be the new model of low-wage
#labor
organizing in the U.S. Meet its leaders 1/x
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UAW President Shawn Fain tells MSNBC the union will not endorse Kamala Harris at this time. The union will let its endorsement process play out at its own pace.
He says he spoke to Harris on Wednesday. “We had a really good conversation,” he says.
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In the midst of this procession of police cars last night in Brooklyn, a woman stepped in front of one in protest.
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"I remember thinking, 'I'm going to die,'" a patient told
@graisondangor
in this terrific and disturbing report on how health insurers have circumvented a law that requires them to put mental health coverage on equal footing with physical ailments.
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Went on
@StartHereABC
to talk about Elon Musk's stock manipulation trial and how Tesla's struggles exemplify a major shift in the electric vehicle industry
Thanks
@TheBradMielke
and co. for having me!
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Fun fact:
@BillGates
is giving every college grad a book on the importance of...facts. I wrote a thing about it.
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Black women are underrepresented among political donors, but many have given big sums to
@KamalaHarris
over her career. I wrote about how they could be an unsung financial wellspring for her 2020 campaign.
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The
@CynthiaNixon
endorsement has split the Working Families Party from its biggest remaining union backers. This has huge implications for the New York left, which depends on community groups for broad issue advocacy but depends on unions for money.
BREAKING: Big unions — SEIU and CWA — quit Working Families Party on eve of now-likely Cynthia Nixon endorsement.
Cuomo pushing for MORE: Wants unions to defund liberal groups backing her.
LOTS of details with
@jessemckinley
here:
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"Movies are inherently bad." —
@SharifPaget
,
@cunyjschool
's film critic-in-residence.
#CUNYJReports
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Bird’s eye view of march in Lower Manhattan against Trump administration’s immigration policies
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Fast food workers and supporters now rallying outside Good Morning America studio
@fightfor15
@SEIU
@thenation
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I sought comment on impeachment from 37 of Donald Trump's closest and wealthiest business allies, including Sheldon Adelson, Robert Mercer, and Steve Schwarzman.
Only three took the opportunity to defend him.
@YahooFinance
#impeachment
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Philadelphia becomes second city (after NYC) to introduce just-cause legislation, which requires an employer to show reason for firing a worker. The proposal has been pushed by 160,000 member union
@32BJSEIU
, which is behind the
@fightfor15
in NYC.
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I looked up all the celebrity donors to
@CynthiaNixon
's campaign for NY governor, so you wouldn't have to
@MONEY
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Envious of future generations who will binge the Russia interference story in 30 seconds after a Wikipedia search.
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West Virginia Teachers: 5% raise secured after 9-day strike
Then..
Oklahoma Teachers: 16% raise secured before 9-day walkout
Then..
Arizona Teachers: 20% raise proposed by governor amid threats of walkout
#teacherstrike
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.
@amazon
weekly worker injuries more than doubled at the heart of the holiday season, according to a study released by advocacy groups
@NelpNews
@AwoodMpls
@nychange
and others that examined OSHA data from 28 facilities in 16 states
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A+ headline
EXCLUSIVE: The National Labor Relations Board's top prosecutor Peter Robb wants to exterminate Scabby the Rat, a well-recognized labor protest icon.
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I wrote about how the
#SCOTUS
decision in
#Janus
intensifies a recruiting war for public workers between unions and conservative groups, and what it means for New York, the country's most unionized state via
@GothamGazette
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Crowd of NYC protesters in wheelchairs fighting proposed
#GOP
tax cuts has grown
#TaxBill
@Shareblue
@CityLimitsNews
#Trump
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Wow this is not a drill, what a team
Thrilled to report that
@hgitty
(deputy editor) ,
@RosaGoldensohn
,
@terryparrisjr
,
@NYDNGregSmith
&
@rachelholliday
are joining
@chrisychung
,
@Cliff_Michel
,
@essayolumhense
&
@J__Velasquez
on the growing staff of
@TheCityNY
. More hiring news soon!
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Rev. William Barber: "Voter registration isn't automatic, but registration for the draft is automatic."
#fighrfor15
#SEIU
#LaborDay2017
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