Union of Southern Service Workers
@RaiseUptheSouth
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We’re building our union for service workers across the South by any means necessary. Press inquiries: [email protected]. #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsforAll
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Joined August 2013
TODAY: @WaffleHouse workers are on STRIKE in Atlanta to demand an end to their mandatory meal deduction policy. Deducting $3 from our pay every shift, regardless of whether we eat, is unjust. We are calling on @USDOL to investigate. #UnionsForAll
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.@McDonalds CEO pay: $7,000/hr. Worker pay: $7.25/hr. *Enough is enough.* . We’re fighting for $15/hr and UNION RIGHTS and we will win!!! #FightFor15 #UnionsForAll
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Weaverville @Wendys workers in NC just walked out for a week-long strike over sexual harassment, disrespect, and abuse at the hands of the General Manager who workers say facilitated a culture of sexual harassment and abuse. (1/6)
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BREAKING: @Amazon workers in Stone Mtn, Georgia walk out ON STRIKE due to low pay, dangerous work conditions in the warehouse, and intimidation from management. A worker was taken to the hospital yesterday after passing out from heat exhaustion. #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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This is why we are building the Union of Southern Service Workers. We shouldn’t have to choose between paying rent and spending valuable time with our families. #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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BREAKING: @Walmart workers just walked off the job on strike in Mooresville, NC to protest poverty wages, lack of PTO and demand their UNION RIGHTS from the multi-billion dollar corporation. Together we fight, together we win! #Fightfor15 #BlackFriday #UnionsforAll #strikevember
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BREAKING: The Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) is founded! . USSW is a union built by low wage workers in the service industry across the South. We’re building our union by any means necessary. ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏻.#UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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HAPPENING NOW: @Amazon workers at the DTG5 Warehouse in Atlanta, GA walked off the job to demand better pay on #PrimeDay. $33.36 BILLION dollars in profit in 2021 are workers' unpaid wages. WORKERS ARE GETTING ORGANIZED. #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsforAll #ALU
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TODAY: @DunkinDonuts workers in Atlanta, GA walked off the job ON STRIKE. Workers are fed up with being overworked, underpaid, and receiving crumbs. We’re demanding a fair share of the profits we create. #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsforAll #SolidaritySeason
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.@WaffleHouse workers in Atlanta, GA delivered a demand letter to mgmt this morning! We're fed up with unsafe working conditions like lack of security & faulty equipment. We generate the profits for WH, we deserve pay that matches our hard work!. #SolidaritySeason #UnionsForAll
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BREAKING: @DollarGeneral workers in Holly Hill, SC are on STRIKE to protest multiple safety hazards, consistent understaffing, a worker unjustly fired, and unlivable wages. WORKERS ARE ORGANIZING. #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsforAll #PutInaTicket
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McDs is more profitable than ever and we are barely scraping by in poverty! See you next week McDonalds #Fightfor15
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.@ninaturner is marching with low-wage workers from @McDonalds ON STRIKE in Charleston, SC. Why? B/c the system is broken when big corporations make billions and pay poverty wages to workers. We’re taking to the streets, striking, and demanding $15/hr #UnionsForAll!
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BREAKING: 100s of fast-food workers walk off the job ON STRIKE today in Durham NC and across the country to demand $15/hr min wage, safer working conditions, and respect on the job! Together we fight, together WE WILL WIN. #Fightfor15 #RaisetheWage
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NOW: @WaffleHouse workers in Columbia, SC are ON STRIKE after delivering a petition to management last week. Our concerns about fair scheduling, safety on the job, and fair pay were not addressed. #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsforAll
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BREAKING: Workers at @littlecaesars in Fayetteville NC are walking off the job ON STRIKE to demand $15/hr, the right to join a union without interference, adequate protection from COVID-19, and an end to racism on the job! #Fightfor15
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HAPPENING NOW: @DollarGeneral workers strike against dangerous working conditions, wage theft, and poverty pay in Irmo, SC. Workers are demanding relief from hazardous work conditions and wage theft after filing official complaints with @SC_OSHA. #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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.@WaffleHouse workers are getting organized across the South. Why? Because we need 24/7 security, an end to mandatory meal deductions and $25/hr min wage for every work. Sign the petition NOW: @WaffleHouse: #UnionsforAll #SolidaritySeason.
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EXCLUSIVE: Video submitted to Raise Up shows @Amazon worker passed out from heat exhaustion inside of the TL2 Warehouse earlier this afternoon in Stone Mountain, GA. Full vid: @amazonlabor #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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HAPPENING NOW: Low wage workers & community groups from across the country are marching on Washington in a show of collective power to demand union rights for all workers, safe & respectful workplaces, & an end to poverty & racism in this country. #ToThePolls #PoorPeoplesCampaign
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"It is not moral that 3 people on top own more wealth than the bottom half of American society, 165 million Americans. That's not moral. That's not right. That's not what should exist in a democratic society.". @BernieSanders in South Carolina rallying to #RaiseTheWage
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Sign the petition to let Waffle House know: We are getting organized and we will not back down to get the respect, security, and pay that we deserve. ✍🏽➡️ .#UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth #SolidaritySeason.
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HAPPENING NOW: @Starbucks workers at the unionized Millwood store in Columbia, SC walk off the job to denounce the corp's "unilateral revocation of our COVID-19 policies and benefits." ➡️#UnionsforAll #NoCoffeeNoContract @SBWorkersUnited
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Don’t be fooled, folks. They are trying to turn the clock back 100+ years to bring back child labor so they can maximize profits and undermine worker power. We won’t let them. @JortsTheCat . #UnionsforAll #UnionStrong
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BREAKING: Frontline workers in Durham & Raleigh are ON STRIKE today! Workers are fed up with unsafe working conditions, no paid sick days, lack of healthcare and cuts to hours during the #coronavirus pandemic. #Fightfor15 #ProtectAllWorkers
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Some say "po-tay-toe." Some say "po-tah-to." We simply say Pay, Us, Fair, Wages, Now.
Some say "po-tay-to." Some say "po-tah-to." We simply say Scattered, Smothered & Covered.
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On March 5th, we delivered our demands to the Flat Shoals Waffle House location. With no response, we are on strike for four days.
TODAY: @WaffleHouse workers in ATL delivered a letter to management to demand health and safety, respect on the job, $25/hr for all, and fair scheduling. It’s time for Waffle House to respect our right to organize and listen to our demands. #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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.@DollarGeneral workers in the small town of Holly Hill, SC (pop. est 1,469) are the latest workers to join the recent upsurge of worker organizing and walk-off strikes at Dollar Generals across the South. After submitting a petition to mgmt demanding more safety measures, (1/3)
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TODAY: @WaffleHouse workers in ATL delivered a letter to management to demand health and safety, respect on the job, $25/hr for all, and fair scheduling. It’s time for Waffle House to respect our right to organize and listen to our demands. #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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💥 Based on our internal survey, we estimate Waffle House's meal credit deduction policy costs workers nearly $30 MILLION yearly. This money should go to us, not the company!. We demand our fair share and the right to opt out. #OrganizeTheSouth.
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HUGE turnout for the #MoralMarch in Raleigh NC. #FightFor15 is proud to stand with @RevDrBarber and @ncnaacp -- Forward Together!
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BREAKING: @cambria_rdu workers are ON STRIKE outside of @RDUAirport in Raleigh NC. Workers demand:.• Safer working conditions after a pipe burst in the hotel.• End to verbal harassment towards workers of color &.• Fair breaks and consistent scheduling & more. #UnionsforAll
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8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence for #GeorgeFloyd at the #StrikeforBlackLives protest in Durham. #BlackLivesMatter #J20
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.@DollarGeneral workers across the country organized walkout strikes today to protest poverty wages, lack of hours and demand union rights. Here they are in North Carolina!. #UnionsforAll #putinaticket
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.@McDonalds: We're fed up. We've had enough. We're going ON STRIKE today in Charleston, SC. #Fightfor15
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NOW: @Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE in Raleigh after a worker suffered a heart attack on the clock. How did mgmt respond?. 🚫 Did not approve the worker's request to leave for hospital.🤯 Told other workers to “stop overreacting.”. This abuse must stop NOW. #UnionsForAll
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BREAKING: Service workers across US South launch a 1-day strike after filing a civil rights complaint against @SC_OSHA for violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act for “disproportionately excluding Black workers from the protection of its programmed inspections.” #UnionsforAll
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.@BetoORourke stands with fast-food workers demanding $15/hr, union rights in Charleston, SC. #FightFor15 #UnionsForAll
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BREAKING: Service workers at @GreatClips in Columbia, SC walked off the job ON STRIKE. We are demanding:.• An end to disrespect & discrimination from management.• Safety equipment in the store.• At least $17 an hour. #UnionsForAll #OrganizetheSouth
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HAPPENING NOW: We’re in DC together with other care workers, fast-food workers, and low-wage workers to stand up for Jobs. Care. and Justice. Without care work, our country doesn’t function. #Fightfor15 #CareIsEssential
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HAPPENING NOW: @Sonicdrivein workers in Columbia, SC, are on STRIKE to demand a safe work environment, fair pay, and an end to understaffing in the store. Workers have filed an OSHA complaint and are taking action to show that we have strength in numbers. #OrganizetheSouth
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BREAKING: We’re joining current and former incarcerated Alabamians, @RDWSU, and @thewoodsfdn with support of @aflcio in filing a lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Corrections to end forced prison labor. ✍🏽➡️💥: #UnionsforAll
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"Poverty is the 4th leading cause of death in America. It's higher than homicide. $7.25 is a poverty wage which means $7.25 is a death wage. We've got to fight against people dying." @RevDrBarber with @BernieSanders in South Carolina rallying to #RaiseTheWage
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.@dunkindonuts workers in Atlanta marched on the boss this week to demand equal treatment and higher wages. Management has to stop playing favorites and give us the raises we deserve! We know Dunkin’ can make these demands happen. Melvin Phillips, Dunkin’ worker. #UnionsForAll
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HAPPENING NOW: @Starbucks workers organize a one-day strike at the Ansley Mall location in Atlanta after *no response that indicates the company intends to bargain in 'good faith.'" Workers are RISING UP. ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿 @SBWorkersUnited #NationalCoffeeDay #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsForAll
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BREAKING: @RevDrBarber arrested while standing alongside striking workers in Durham, NC demanding justice, living wages #Fightfor15
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.@DunkinDonuts workers in Atlanta are still on strike! Fellow service workers and community members came out to support the workers. We’re demanding fair pay, paid time off, and respect on the job. #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsforAll #SolidaritySeason
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If you work full-time, you should make enough to support yourself. Plan and simple. Every cook. Every server. Every worker. Sign the petition NOW to demand 24/7 security, living wages, an end to mandatory meal deductions at @WaffleHouse: #UnionsforAll.
Atlanta Waffle House Employees are demanding $25 dollars an hour. 24/7 security & an end to mandatory meal deductions.
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Did you know that the largest armed insurrection in US history since the Civil War was a struggle between coal miners and mercenaries hired by their bosses? . #OtD in Southern labor history, this is the Battle of Blair Mountain. 🧵. #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsforAll
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The violence at @WaffleHouse is a meme at this point. But the truth for workers is terrifying & tragic, like with the loss of worker Jesse Hall in 2017. No one should fear for their life on the job. We deserve REAL safety & security at the workplace!. #OrganizeTheSouth
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BREAKING: @PeteButtigieg joins striking fast-food workers at @McDonalds demanding $15/hr and union rights for all workers. #Fightfor15 #UnionsForAll
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They are afraid. They are arresting us not because we are weak but because we are strong @ncnaacp @RevDrBarber #RespectOurVote
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Rain Edwards and fellow @Amazon workers at the ATL2 facility walked off to demand better equipment, higher wages, and a safer workplace. We know Amazon can afford it with $33.3 BILLION+ in profits just last year. #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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@McDonalds ┃┃╱╲ in this. ┃╱╱╲╲ house. ╱╱╭╮╲╲ we. ▔▏┗┛▕▔. ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲. believe EMTs and fast food. workers deserve $15+/hour. ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲. ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔.
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The success of this country depends on environmental justice, economic justice and criminal justice reform – @BetoORourke with #FightFor15 workers in South Carolina. #UnionsForAll
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BREAKING: Service workers in South Carolina demand feds takeover of @SC_OSHA with petition to @USDOL citing state agency failed workers w/ delays, racial discrimination, understaffing, limited inspections & low penalties that don’t hold bad bosses accountable #UnionsForAll 🧵👇🏾
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.@skatunenetwork knows from experience the kinds of conditions workers face at @WaffleHouse: low wages, unpredictable hours, lack of safety from harassment, & more. Our organizing with WH workers is working to change that & demand they respect their workers. #UnionsforAll
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Dozens of riot cops have arrived on the scene in Durham, NC but we will not be moved #Fightfor15
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Union of Southern Service Workers in Durham are standing in solidarity with Starbucks workers who are demanding fair pay, healthcare, safety on the job, & their union! We are standing up to union-busting and corporate greed. #StarbucksShareholders $SBUX @SBWorkersUnited
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HAPPENING NOW: Workers in Durham NC and across the country make it clear: $15/hr min wage should be the floor, not the ceiling. We can't survive on $7.25. #RespectProtectPayUs #Fightfor15
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ON STRIKE: After filing a civic complaint against @SC_OSHA, workers from @Popeyes, @CircleKStores, @RyderSystemInc and other employers walk off the job to demand better and safer workplaces for all service workers. ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏽 #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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On top of the blatant disrespect, sexual harassment, and disregard for worker safety, Wendy’s workers are also struggling with poverty wages and workplace favoritism instead of merit and seniority. (3/6)
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2) An end to all retaliation against Charity Bradley for being a whistleblower about ongoing sexual harassment and disrespect.3) Tar Heel Capital Wendy’s LLC management needs to meet with survivors to discuss the widespread problem of sexual harassment. (6/6).
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Happening now - silent march with the #PoorPeoplesCampaign - we are silent now but we demand our voices will be heard.
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The issue is widespread, and workers are calling on the DM to end the inaction. According to workers, after they reported the toxic working conditions and harassment at the Weaverville Wendy’s, the accused manager was only shuffled around to different store locations. (2/6).
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It’s not hard to understand. Billionaires are billionaires due to luck and exploitation. Period. #RaiseTheWage #UnionsForAll.
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It is beyond time for @Wendys to step up and do right by their workers. We are on strike for our dignity and safety. Wendy’s workers are striking to demand:.1) Brian Cromer be fired immediately and NOT transferred to another fast food restaurant. (5/6).
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EXCLUSIVE: Another @Amazon worker passed out and was taken to the hospital from the ATL2 Warehouse in Stone Mountain, Georgia yesterday. Workers are often pressured to “make rate” and can be fired for not moving fast enough. #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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@MorePerfectUS We’re calling on @GovernorKayIvey and @AGSteveMarshall to END the incarcerated labor program, corporations to do the right thing TODAY, and all elected officials to speak out. Sign the petition NOW: #UnionsforAll
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.@RevDrBarber – Question: "What are we going to do about poverty?". @BernieSanders – Answer: "Raise the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour" and assure "workers the right to join a union.". #FightFor15 #UnionsForAll #PoorPeoplesCampaign @UniteThePoor
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BREAKING: Workers and community allies from throughout North Carolina flood the Starbucks location at 2901 Sherman Oak Place in Raleigh during SB workers' unionizing vote. Workers demand a UNION, and WE WILL NOT BE STOPPED! #UnionsforAll @SBWorkersUnited
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Taiwanna is a Charleston fast-food worker in the #FightFor15 who is currently on strike. We're here at the CNN Town Hall before candidates take the stage to hear how they'll be standing with workers like us. $15 an hour and #UnionsForAll: NOW
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This is a widespread issue that reaches beyond general manager Brian Cromer; workers allege that there is a culture of sexual harassment and managerial abuse that has been ignored for too long. (4/6).
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.@WaffleHouse workers continue to strike in Flat Shoals (Conyers, GA) today after filing a complaint with the @USDOL on Monday. We refuse to let a multi-billion dollar company take potentially millions of dollars annually from workers. #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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WORKER ACTION: Workers in Atlanta WALK OFF THE JOB today at @FamilyDollar and other retail, restaurant, and warehouse jobs as part of a multi-state strike across the US South to demand better health and safety for service workers. #UnionsForAll #OrganizeTheSouth
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.@BernieSanders: "Because of what you do in the #FightFor15, millions of workers are already getting higher wages across the country." We are fighting, and we will win. #UnionsForAll
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It’s a meme at this point that @WaffleHouse is unsafe for workers as they face violence so regularly. And yet, Waffle House doesn’t do anything to address worker’s safety. We DEMAND security for ALL shifts. #OrganizeTheSouth #UnionsForAll
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BREAKING: @Bojangles workers in Raleigh, NC are ON STRIKE to protest the restaurant concealing a COVID-19 outbreak. We will not work in unsafe environments during a global pandemic! #ProtectAllWorkers #Fightfor15
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Breaking: Today, same day as #Debates2016 Black workers in Charlotte, NC are ON STRIKE to say we are underpaid and over policed! #FightFor15
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RECAP: Yesterday, service workers organized a MULTI-STATE STRIKE across the US South to protest serious health and safety issues after filing a civil rights complaint against @SC_OSHA. Workers are demanding respect, protections, and SAFE JOBS for everyone. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿 #UnionsforAll
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We can call this “a form of modern-day slavery” for a reason. Incarcerated folks are seemingly denied parole to continue making money for the government & private companies. It’s shameful. Our lawsuit alleges it’s unconstitutional. Join us: #UnionsforAll
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When Lillette Hamilton got injured at the job, @Amazon management told her to DRIVE HERSELF to get care. A worker just yesterday passed out on the job at this same facility. Amazon needs to treat workers like HUMANS, not robots. #UnionsforAll #OrganizetheSouth
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BREAKING: @FreddysUSA workers in Durham, NC are ON STRIKE. We shut down the store after a worker tested positive for COVID-19. Management ignored our petition for quarantine pay so we’re fighting back. #Fightfor15 #ProtectAllWorkers
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“@McDonalds publicly claims to care about Black lives, but McDonald’s pays us poverty wages and has failed to give us proper PPE during this pandemic,” said Rita Blalock, a Raleigh McDonald’s worker and leader in the Fight for $15 and a Union. #StrikeForBlackLives #J20
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“Last year during [Dragon Con] we sold out. The line didn’t stop. Our hard work made so much money for DD that day, but we were only paid 10$/hr. I just want to be able to take care of myself.” Devan Jordan, @DunkinDonuts worker
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It’s a new year but @Walmart workers are STILL paying to wear shorts at work in extreme heat… make it make sense. #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsforAll
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We are unique. We are strong. We are powerful. As USSW, we are unstoppable. 🎨Aliyah Bonnette. #UnionsForAll #OrganizeTheSouth #USSW
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The rejected of this nation are leading a transformation. Join us and @UniteThePoor June 20th: #PoorPeoplesCampaign #FightFor15
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Workers in Mooresville, NC self-organized a strike on #BlackFriday to hit their bottom line and demand better pay, working conditions, and a seat at the table. Together we fight, together we win! #Fightfor15 #UnionsforAll
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Raising the minimum wages to $15/hr will ….• Benefit 23 MILLION WOMEN and 14.4 MILLION CHILDREN by giving their parents a raise. • Increase the wages of 1/3rd of Black Workers and a 1/4 of Latino Workers. • Help close the help close the racial pay gap.#Fightfor15
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BREAKING: @McDonalds workers in Durham, NC and across the country are ON STRIKE to demand a $15/hr floor and UNION RIGHTS for every single worker. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿 #Fightfor15 #UnionsforAll
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Service workers from across the South are signing union membership cards to join the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW)!. We're getting organized to win real structural changes in our workplaces and communities. #OrganizeTheSouth #UnionsForAll
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.@Amazon workers in Atlanta walk off the job AGAIN to demand higher wages, better working conditions, and respect on the job. We know #Amazon can afford to listen to the workers, but won’t. Workers are making them. 💪 #OrganizeTheSouth #UnionsForAll .@amazonlabor
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