April Verrett
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SEIU is proud to endorse VP
@KamalaHarris
as our nominee for President. As a woman of color & the child of immigrant parents, VP Harris is not only a historic choice to lead the ticket – she is prepared. She brings decades of public service fighting for workers across industries.
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"We're going to keep going until we win $15. We're going to keep fighting until we win a union!" -
@AOC
#FightFor15
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Today a Senate full of many millionaires voted to keep 32M in poverty when they opposed
@SenSanders
' amendment. Working people elected this administration & Congress to
#RaiseTheWage
to $15. We will hold accountable those who hold us back, regardless of party. 1/6
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Take a look: millions of Americans who work for
@McDonalds
and other hugely powerful corporations won't get paid if they get sick. (graphic from
@nytimes
)
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Well-said,
@staceyabrams
! "We vote not because of the act of casting a ballot. We vote for the policies that follow after, for the ways that our gov't helps make our lives, if not easier, then at least improves our access to increasing our opportunity."
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Like VP Harris, I've seen the importance of care workers in my life. We need a leader who supports care workers & those who need care. That's why I'm all in for
@KamalaHarris
& proud the Care Can't Wait Act coalition is the 1st out w/ an IE ad supporting her.
#CareGiversForKamala
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Great to see
@BernieSanders
' strong plan to overhaul our defective & outdated labor laws. This proposal is the latest sign
#2020
candidates can't ignore millions of workers demanding leaders rewrite the rules so everyone can join a union, no matter where we work
#UnionsForAll
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Having a union means having a say.
Having a union means having a community.
Having a union means belonging to a movement.
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"There is a shortage of workers who want to work at what you’re offering."
#FightFor15
#UnionsForAll
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Thank you,
@RepJayapal
&
@USProgressives
, for getting us closer to the historic investments of
#BuildBackBetter
. We are in this fight with you and won't stop fighting until we win.
#CareCantWait
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If you ever need proof that the rules are rigged against working people, consider that 2 years into a pandemic we still don't have paid sick days or affordable healthcare.
#1u
#respectprotectpayus
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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds take to the streets in DC to demand Congress keep it's promise and pass
#BuildBackBetter
with investments in long term care, childcare, climate, protections for immigrants, paid leave and more!
#CareCantWait
#CareIsEssential
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I agree with
@BernieSanders
we need a country that works for all of us, not just the few. That's why every worker—Black, white and brown—needs the opportunity to join together in union, no matter where you work, to raise wages and hold big corporations accountable
#UnionsForAll
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.
@PeteButtigieg
's plan includes multi-employer bargaining, giving workers a seat at the table with big corporations to hold them accountable for the good jobs our families and communities need.
#UnionsForAll
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This Amazon election confirms what we knew: the rules are rigged against working people & it's far too difficult to win a union in this country. This loss reaffirms how big a win the 1st unionized warehouse was...& how vital it is that electeds make labor law work for workers.
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The rules were never written for working people, women or people of color. Too often they're used to try to slow progress. We won’t let them. Working people voted in record numbers. Congress must step up to deliver a $15 min wage & the COVID rescue plan.
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The fact that we all watched a man murder George Floyd for 9m 29s & weren't sure he'd be convicted says so much. The jury made the right decision, but one conviction is not enough. We must reimagine public safety & root out structural racism everywhere it exists.
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Solidarity with
@amazon
workers in Kentucky who are uniting for a voice at work with
@amazonlabor
!
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Kaiser made $3 BILLION in profit in the first half of 2023.
Their CEO makes $300,000 A WEEK!
They can afford to staff their hospitals.
#SolidaritySeason
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Pizza Hut CEO David Gibbs made over $16M in 2022. He could personally pay for the full raise for all 1,200 workers and still earn $4.3M a year.
Workers should never be punished for demanding living wages.
YUM Brands (Pizza Hut operators) made $1.3B in profit in 2022. The idea that wage increases MUST be passed on, or result in layoffs is nonsense.
Paying workers more is not the issue. It is corporate greed.
#RaiseTheWage
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Our country is strongest when we make it easier for all Americans to participate in our democracy, not harder. Senate must step up and deliver
#VotingRightsForThePeople
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It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as elected president for SEIU’s 2M members for the last 14 years. SEIU and Fight for $15 workers have humbled me and fueled my fight to build an economy and democracy that allows all working people to thrive.
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@BernieSanders
This morning I’m joining workers in Milwaukee to demand every
#2020
candidate release a detailed plan like
@BernieSanders
' explaining how they will make it possible for all working people to join unions. This is no time for minor tweaks to our broken system.
#UnionsForAll
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This is a deliberate attempt by WI GOP to exclude voters, to limit participation, to undermine democracy.
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There's nothing "quirky and interesting" about denying working people the raise they need to live with dignity.
#RaiseTheWage
#FightFor15
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There is no such thing as a foreign virus. The president needs to stop unfairly targeting immigrants, especially from the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, and travelers from other countries. Coronavirus is in the U.S. Blaming other countries will not save lives.
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They tried to scare us about layoffs & jobs leaving when CA fast food workers won a $20 min wage. Well, So Cal’s fast food restaurants saw RECORD employment in June.
Y'all gonna learn we know what we're talking about. Your way didn't work. Our turn.
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Thank you
@RepJayapal
@RepKatiePorter
and
@IlhanMN
for fighting to
#BuildBackBetter
. We must invest in working people, especially women, who have been hit hard by the pandemic.
#HoldTheLine
#BuildBackBetterWithWomen
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I’m thinking about the essential workers who will have to make their way home after the curfew in DC. Workers who have spent the day with COVID patients, cleaning buildings, keeping people fed and safe.
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HUGE NEWS!
#AB257
just passed the California legislature. This landmark bill will be the most important piece of labor law to pass in decades. It will give 550,000 fast-food workers a chance to sit down with government and their employers to decide wages and working conditions.
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Starbucks broke the law and continues to break the law. The
@NLRB
is holding corporations accountable, but we know our current laws don't do enough to protect workers. We need
#UnionsForAll
.
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It's impressive that
@PeteButtigieg
's economic plan includes a section on unions to restore the balance between workers and corporations
#UnionsForAll
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I'm listening to the Poor's People's Campaign live stream where Bishop William Barber is linking the fight for democracy to the Fight for $15 & Unions for All. Democracy v. Autocracy
@RevDrBarber
#PoorPeoplesCampaign
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This Thanksgiving, I grieve for the quarter million lives lost to COVID. I hold in my heart the indigenous people whose lives & land were stolen. And I express my deepest gratitude to the essential workers who are keeping our country running during a pandemic.
#ProtectAllWorkers
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A $15 national minimum wage is a top priority for workers, who are casting their ballots for bold change that will improve their lives — I hear it from voters every single day.
#MyVoteIsEssential
NEW: The most Google-searched issue in most of America during the Trump-Biden debate was WAGES. It spiked just as
@kwelkernbc
asked about the minimum wage.
A 2020 sleeper?
Biden wants to raise the federal wage to $15.
Trump says no, leave it to states.
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NEW: A Tallahassee Starbucks store has become the first in Florida to file for a union election.
With the addition of this store (at John Knox Rd. & North Monroe St.), workers at 7 Starbucks locations have filed in the past two weeks.
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TONIGHT! Looking forward to joining
@BernieSanders
' Livestream Session to discuss what corporations, government need to do keep Americans safe, healthy, secure as we recover from pandemic.
#ProtectAllWorkers
Earning a paycheck shouldn't kill you. Tomorrow night: join our virtual town meeting at 7 p.m. ET on safely re-opening our economy, live at .
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On behalf of the 2M members of SEIU, I send my warmest congratulations to our union brother
@LulaOficial
for winning the Brazilian presidential election. Your victory is a triumph for democracy, justice & equality, and an inspiration to workers around the world.
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Trump’s career has been defined by stiffing American workers -- his presidency would be too.
#debatenight
#SEIUforHillary
#ImWithHer
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Proud and excited to march with cooks, cashiers from
@McDonalds
at
#StrikeForBlackLives
. Our economy will be unfair and out of balance as long as corporations can exploit structural racism to hold wages down for Black workers.
#FightFor15
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Any infrastructure plan that excludes home care is not a serious jobs plan. Intentionally cutting out Black, brown, Asian & immigrant women--those most impacted by the pandemic and the ones who carried us through it--isn't a compromise; it's a failure voters would not forgive.
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Every senator who voted against $15 should spend a day w/ a fast-food or home care worker. Part of your duty to the American people is to understand the inherent dignity & worth of all work--& the reality of the struggle of too many who cannot get by on poverty wages. 5/6
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Disgusting. 170+
@32BJSEIU
doormen & building staff members have died from COVID. Yet the owners of Billionaires Row, where many of them work, are trying to cut sick time & make workers pay more for health insurance. We’re not having it.
#UnionsForAll
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The Senate has no excuses for failing workers on $15. A minimum wage any lower than that is an endorsement of children going hungry, families struggling to keep the lights on, forcing moms and dads to choose between asthma inhalers & the rent. 2/6
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First Starbucks union in the South! 👏👏👏
#UnionsForAll
The Merchants Drive Starbucks in Knoxville, Tennessee just WON their union vote and will become the first unionized Starbucks store in the south.
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It's time to create good union jobs in our nation's infrastructure - airports, roads, bridges, wind, solar and home care. It's time to honor all work, including work done by a majority women of color in home care. The
#AmericanJobsPlan
will do just that.
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Until Black people can find justice in our legal system & safety in every neighborhood, none of us can thrive. We continue to fight for a world where Black lives matter & where white supremacists are held accountable for the violence they perpetrate.
#rittenhouseverdict
#Kenosha
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@BernieSanders
.
@BernieSanders
responds to our demand for
#UnionsForAll
, including sectoral bargaining, allowing states & cities to empower workers to organize in new ways above the limits of federal law, ensuring jobs funded by public $$ pay at least $15 with real opportunity to unite in union
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Today we join over 40 progressive groups demanding
@Starbucks
stop its unpopular union-busting campaign. A truly progressive Starbucks is one that embraces baristas, and their union, not one that shuts the door in their faces.
#StickItToStarbucks
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#Thanksgiving
wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without farmworkers, truck drivers, grocery workers and all the other people who labor to make it happen.
As you are shopping, prepping and preparing your Thanksgiving meals, we'd like you to know a little more about the work behind every ingredient and the people doing that work.
Here's a thread for everyone who wants to thank a farm worker this week.
#WeFeedYou
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It's no coincidence that when millions of voters of all races elected Georgia's first Black senator, violent white supremacists attacked our democracy, attempting to delegitimize our votes.
I am calling for the immediate removal of Donald Trump.
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Workers have ALWAYS been essential. You cannot praise these heroes in one breath and condemn them to poverty in the next.
#RaiseTheWage
NOW.
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Thank you,
@POTUS
, for standing with caregivers who were hit hard by the pandemic. It's clear that their work is vital. It's time for Congress to invest $400B in care and caregivers.
#careisessential
#carecantwait
#buildbackbetter
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I am thrilled that TIME magazine has honored SEIU members by naming me as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020. This is a tribute to the courage of the 2 million working people united in
@SEIU
and
@fightfor15
leaders.
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It is an intentional decision to keep workers in poverty while corporations make billions. It's shameful -- and the workers who elected you to
#RaiseTheWage
won't forget it. 3/6
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.
@Starbucks
fired Memphis workers for trying to form a union. For too long, this kind of behavior from corporations has been tolerated. That ends now.
#UnionsForAll
NLRB Region 3-Buffalo Files in Federal Court Seeking Nationwide Cease and Desist Order Against Starbucks, Reinstatement for Seven Workers, and a Bargaining Order
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Transportation workers are essential but have been treated as disposable. Grateful for the Biden admin’s mediation to broker a tentative agreement giving rail workers a better deal. This is the power of workers coming together in their unions
#UnionsforAll
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Dr. King stood with striking Memphis sanitation workers 50 years ago to support their efforts to unite for dignity & respect. I'm proud to stand with workers across the country today to take up that call once again. Together
#WeRise
to
#UnrigtheSystem
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Congrats to
@staceyabrams
on Adam Clayton Powell Award at the
@CBCFInc
awards! She's inspiring working people in GA and across the country with her fight for good jobs, education, and healthcare for all families
#CBCFALC18
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Let's be clear: we elected this administration and Congress to
#RaiseTheWage
to $15. We cannot build back better without $15. 4/6
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Today, we celebrate
#Juneteenth
with joy. This celebration of Black liberation and culture is a reminder why we ALL must continue to struggle for Black freedom. Because until Black people are free, none of us are free.
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This is amazing. Healthcare workers and leaders of
@seiu_uhw
-- a union of hospital and healthcare workers across California -- have located 37 MILLION (!) N95 masks. They're making them available to hospitals across CA and NY.
#ProtectAllWorkers
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There is no other President in recent US history who has done more for working people than Joe Biden. We respect his decision to step out of the race and appreciate his endorsement of Vice President Harris to finish the job they started. Onward.
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Mary Grace is right! Voting for Joe Biden is the most important thing we can do right now to protect our health care.
#MyVoteIsEssential
@SEIU2015
Our healthcare is on the line. On early vote day, we're voting out those who would take it from us during a pandemic. Vote:
#MyVoteIsEssential
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.
@JayInslee
correctly recognizes that ensuring all working people have a voice through a union is an essential part of combating climate change. We must take bold, immediate action and create good, union jobs in a just transition.
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Amazon workers won their first union. And Starbucks workers at 18 stores have won their unions, with more than 200 others filing for union elections.
This is no longer the great resignation; it’s the great reckoning.
#UnionsForAll
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"What would happen if we allowed people all across the US to unionize and collectively bargain the way these unions are right now?"
@AOC
is right. Workers, like those organizing at
@Starbucks
right now, need the right to a union.
#Striketober
#UnionsForAll
@SBWorkersUnited
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.
@GM
's decision to yank healthcare coverage away from their dedicated employees with no warning, is heartless and unconscionable. GM’s actions could put people’s lives at risk, from the factory worker who needs treatment for their asthma...
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Essential workers are praised, but treated as disposable. It's time for Congress to put values into action and get a $15 minimum wage done for working people.
#raisethewage
#fightfor15
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I'm proud to share that SEIU has resolved to call for universal vaccination as part of our effort to
#protectallworkers
. Vaccines are essential to protect workers & mandates are a powerful tool to reach universal vaccination.
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My heart is filled with pride for the
@fightfor15
worker leaders who have fought so hard for a $15 minimum wage. Today’s introduction of the Raise the Wage Act is a huge accomplishment, but I know they won’t stop until every working person is paid what they are worth.
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My opinion piece in today's
@USATODAY
about how empowering more workers to join unions will give us the strength in numbers to transform our economy into one where all of us can get ahead, no matter what our color or where we come from.
#UnionsForAll
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Make no mistake: the same corporations that are making record profits while busting workers’ unions are raising prices on working families. If our nation’s leaders are serious about addressing inflation, they’ll hold these big corporations accountable for their price-gouging.
JUST IN: US inflation jumped to 8.6% (y/y) in May, the highest since 1981 and a new post-pandemic record.
Rising gas prices, food prices and shelter costs drove much of the May increase.
There’s little sign of a slowdown. In May alone, inflation rose 1%
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Before his death, Congressman John Lewis wrote: “Time is of the essence to preserve the integrity and promises of our democracy.”
Lawmakers must now heed his call with all the force they can muster and support the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
#RestoreTheVRA
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Investing in care workers who are largely Black, brown, Indigenous and immigrant women, is absolutely necessary to build back better. We won't settle for less.
#CareIsEssential
#Carecantwait
FACTS: Home care workers are still primarily women, 62% are people of color, and with a median income of $16,200, they are paid one of the lowest wages in the country.
We must right these wrongs.
#CareCantWait
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Solidarity with
@AmericanU
workers who are on the second day of their strike today for better pay!
#UnionsForAll
#AUChangeCantWait
#AStrikeReadyU
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#DemPlatform
includes 1st-ever plan to address structural racism and discrimination. The time for
#RacialJustice
is now.
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Congratulations to Starbucks workers with
@SBWorkersUnited
who, in the face of a brutal anti union campaign, keep winning even in some of the most anti worker cities in the country!
#UnionsForAll
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This is a huge step forward! Captive audience meetings (the anti-union meetings employers force workers to attend) may soon be banned!
#UnionsForAll
#1u
Today, General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memo announcing that she will ask the Board to rule that mandatory meetings, including captive audience meetings, are a violation of the National Labor Relations Act.
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Workers are demanding that elected leaders pick a side; are you w/ working people or price gouging corporations?
I'm honored to stand w/ leaders who chose to side with the people & airport workers who made it happen. The Good Jobs Good Airports Act will raise wages & standards.
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Poverty shouldn't exist, but it's the reality for millions of workers. We need real change. We need to
#raisethewage
and make
#unionsforall
a reality.
@RevDrBarber
@UniteThePoor
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ICYMI this weekend
@berniesanders
said "Yes we are going to raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour, and by the way, we're gonna make it easier for workers to join unions." To unrig economy, workers need right to join together in a union no matter where they work
#UnionsForAll
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I'm w/ healthcare champions in the Senate & the House bc the right to quality, affordable healthcare is an American issue.
#CareNotChaos
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Grocery workers at 87 stores will strike next week.
The workers who have kept America fed during the pandemic have more than earned respect and a decent wage. It's time for corporations to deliver.
#Solidarity
#1u
@UFCW
#unionsforall
#respectprotectpayus
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It's almost like raising workers' wages is good for the economy... 👀
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“California added 21,100 jobs in July…nearly 20% of the nation’s new positions…the 51st consecutive month of job growth in the state”
“California also recorded a historic high in fast food employment, surpassing 750,000 jobs for the first time”
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Join us! Let's raise our voices together for COVID relief, a $15 minimum wage, and more.
#RaiseTheWage
Join us online at 3:30pm ET as we launch
#MoralMondays
in the
#First100Days
of the Biden-Harris admin & 117th Congress, w/ a mass
#PoorPeoplesCampaign
teach-in & call-in to Schumer & McConnell to demand immediate COVID relief & $15/hr minimum wage:
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I spoke with
@helaineolen
from
@washingtonpost
about how America can update our laws to make sure all working people -- no matter what our color or what kind of work we do -- can form unions to get a seat at the table.
#UnionsForAll
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More about
@BernieSanders
plan and the
#UnionsForAll
proposal to put more power in the hands of working Americans that
@seiu
put forward today.
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Solidarity with and a big thank you to farm workers across the nation who have made Christmas possible. From evergreens to poinsettias, the U.S. owes its festive greenery to farm workers like Jesus!
#SolidaritySeason
Jesus shared some of the work of his coworkers in a poinsettia nursery in Gilroy CA. Each plant was carefully watered and fed until they were wrapped in festive foil and placed in homes around the country during the holiday season.
#WeFeedYou
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To all healthcare workers on ULP strike to demand Kaiser bargain in good faith: we have your backs!
#SolidaritySeason
✊
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