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This Labor Day I’m going public with a new project: Politics At Work, a blog on labor’s untapped political potential and what we can do to win transformative change in this country!
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UPS management tried to crack down on us wearing union hats while on property. We responded by moving Teamster Thursday inside this morning. Not one inch to the company!
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25 years since the Teamsters shut down UPS. 1 year until our contract expires. Every step of the way, in every warehouse and in every truck, we will be fighting relentlessly for a good contract. And we intend to win.
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UPS unjustly fired one of us last week, and refused to schedule a return-to-work day to keep our sister out through the holidays. In response. 150+ drivers stood outside and denied management the “flex start” they crave during the holidays. Solidarity gets the goods!
#705MFERS
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Starbucks workers in Chicago have their first election this week, and we’re psyched for them. Teamsters like some solidarity stirred into their coffee! Kick some ass
@SBWorkersUnited
!
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UAW workers marching off the job to go on strike at the Case plant in Burlington. Class struggle - we love to see it, folks.
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This morning 100+ drivers met to debate our demands for the next UPS contract. The convo quickly turned to PVDs - personal vehicle drivers, gig workers UPS wants to use to do our jobs. We won’t stand for it. We will defend our jobs and the future of dignified union work!
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With word of mass livestock death and residents having trouble breathing, it is clear that the East Palestine rail crash is a serious disaster. All fault lies on the financial firms that run our rail companies for their own profit. We need rail nationalization now.
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I grew up in Wisconsin. Kenosha. Milwaukee. Janesville. Plant closures were an accepted tragedy of life. That’s how capital wants us to view their destruction - as a part of our natural world. Now we will forever know - we can change things.
NEW: For the first time ever, U.S. auto workers have gotten a shuttered factory reopened.
Workers at the massive Belvidere Jeep plant were laid off or told to relocate in March.
Now the plant is not only reopening —
@UAW
won three times as many jobs and a $30/hour wage floor.
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Two DSA electeds standing firm against apartheid and against empire. They’re facing intense pressure to “tow the line” expected of politicians in our country. We need to show them our support now more than ever!
Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) are facing criticism from fellow Democrats over statements in which they labeled Israel as an apartheid state and called for the U.S. to end funding to the nation, following a deadly attack by Hamas.
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Managers at UPS Jeff Street threatened to fire several drivers today - at the same time that we face a -20 degree windchill and record wind gusts. We get called essential workers. Our labor is needed, for sure. But I know the bosses are not.
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Nobody has the right to tell our coworkers “Hey, I know better about your conditions than you do. Do what I say.” Groups like this don’t believe in workers figuring out this world for themselves. They see us as pieces for them to play with.
This past weekend, Chicago SA was out tabling with
@wrkrsstrikeback
around the UPS contract struggle and the growing
#VoteNo
campaign around the recently-released tentative agreement, which falls far too short in an era where the cost of living just keeps skyrocketing.
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I am proud to be a part of DSA in these difficult times. My advice to all my brave comrades: Demonstrate leadership. Don’t just accept attacks, but embrace them. Do not shrink from the first shove because this will get harder. We stand for something better.
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We should debate whether or not leverage was maximized, but endorsing Biden to block a second Trump term is ultimately the right thing for any union to be doing right now.
Fain: Donald Trump is a scab. He is a billionaire and that’s who he represents.
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Today, nearly 350,000 warehouse workers and truck drivers forced concessions from a $100 billion corporation. This comes after 2 decades of fighting concessionary contracts from weak union leadership, and fighting daily battles on the shop floor.
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@meh_meh_meh_
We are union, but that doesn’t mean management accepts the reality. Every day it’s a fight on the shop floor: either union power is expanded, or it’s constrained. Management will never give in, neither will we.
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A flat-out joke of a position. We lost thousands of members for Bowman’s previous vote? Bowman is a “progressive except for Palestine” when he’s defined his re-election on ending support for Netanyahu? This isn’t serious politics.
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This is not 2011, this is not 1968. This moment will change things.
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To the electeds running from DSA because of our stand with Palestine: good politics sifts opportunists from tribunes like a thresher sifts chaff from grain. Get lost.
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We are right at the center of where we’ve wanted to be for decades.
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The hard-left won’t join DSA for a simple reason - they’re not democratic socialists. And the good thing is that there aren’t that many of them. The sooner our org’s leaders stop chasing the dozens at the expense of the unactivated millions, the better off DSA will be.
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The political leaders of both parties, to a cheering crowd of thousands, celebrating a mass killing in one of the world’s densest population centers. This is wretched. We have to go another way.
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Workers - it’s our world.
Incredible moment on the
@sagaftra
picket line outside Netflix in NYC when a UPS driver/
@Teamsters
member came by honking in solidarity.
#1u
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After this weekend, it’s clear to me that DSA is exactly where it needs to be. We’re socialists. We’re workers. We’re internationalists. We take DSA seriously. We take building a party seriously. We take internal democracy and debate seriously. Our future is bright, comrades.
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DSA’s UPS Strike Ready campaign was, day-to-day, run by two full-time truck drivers working 45-60 hours a week. When we talk about our org being run by working people - case in point. But we both figured out very quickly that we could not get this campaign to scale on our own.
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Cannot stress how historic this is. We WILL win Amazon!
BREAKING: The NLRB just decided that Amazon is a joint employer of Palmdale, CA drivers who organized with the Teamsters. It's the beginning of the end for Amazon's favorite legal loophole, and a big boost for unionizing drivers.
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Teamster Thursday is dedicated to the rail workers in this country leading the fight for a dignified life for all of us. As y’all vote on your contract, know that Chicago Teamsters are IN YOUR CORNER!
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@DemSocialists
is the Home of the Left. Regardless of your individual persuasion, if you are on the left you belong here. The great battle of ideas is underway here. Join, debate, engage. Be brave and be humble enough to be wrong. Out of DSA, we will get our road to socialism.
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This weekend I was elected to the Steering Committee of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (
@TeamsterRnF
), and then elected to serve as a co-chair. To have the support of my fellow union militants means the world to me. Together we will continue to transform our union!
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TRUMP ATTENDS TEAMSTERS RANK-AND-FILE PRESIDENTIAL ROUNDTABLE
Former President Donald Trump met with Teamster union workers from around the country on Wednesday, including the Teamsters General President, General Secretary-Treasurer, and General Executive Board, as the union
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This article is fascinating. This doesn’t describe an internal crisis in DSA - in fact, we come across fairly united. But this DOES describe a crisis in the Democrats, their base and their politicians that try to woo DSA support come election time!
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Rolling ULP strikes at Amazon warehouses across California? Organized by the Teamsters? Can I get a hell yeah?
🚨🚨🚨 Amazon
@Teamsters
extend their picket line to a second warehouse in California!
We demand fair pay, safe jobs, and an end to unfair labor practices!
LET'S DO THIS!
#1u
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You’ve got coal miners in Alabama and the best labor leaders in the country saying the same thing -
@DemSocialists
is on the the right side and making an impact on the struggle of working people.
"DSA is everywhere, every single picket line that I go to, every single fight they're taking up the cause, talking about labor rights, making it central to the mission." -
@FlyingWithSara
on the
@BostonSBWU
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My jaw keeps dropping with every episode of the latest series by
@TrueAnonPod
. Uncovering one of the most evil currents in US society, weaving in personal traumas, all with top tier production value. No words for it.
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Huge organizing victory for the Teamsters. Wall-to-wall unionization in our core industries - this is how we build union power in the country!
BREAKING: 900 DHL Express workers just won a union.
The hazardous conditions that workers in the shipping industry face—dangerous accidents, sleep deprivation, and serious injuries—led them to organize with the
@Teamsters
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Now they've won 505-288.
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What do Teamster militants do when they’re not driving out corrupt leaders, organizing Amazon and preparing to strike UPS? They do Spice Girl performances.
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@DSA_Labor
has formed a Sub-Committee to Defend Palestine, to coordinate the work of DSA comrades in the labor movement in support of the demands for a ceasefire and an end to the war on Palestinians. If you are a member of the NLC and want to help this effort, DM me!
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It had to be so tight coming out of the New Deal. One out of three workers being union not only meant massive industrial unions, but that corners of the economy had unions like “Dance Instructors Guild Local 329”.
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Trump voice “Lenin” is going to be burrowed in my brain for a long time.
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DSA has moved miles through conditions we didn’t choose. We have more to do, and it’ll be through even worse terrain. If you want perfection, you’ll wait forever. But us working people can’t wait for a better life, so I’m glad we’re choosing to fight with what we’ve got.
Sometimes I imagine trying to explain to someone from 2015 that the most well known Congressmember in the US today is a DSA member who uses her office to canvas working class communities in the Bronx with three languages of Ceasefire in Gaza lit
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Make no mistake: Labor has been waiting for
@UAW
’s impending wins in the South for eight decades.
When unionizing the South failed in the 1940’s, our movement went dormant.
On Friday, we’re waking up.
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All out for our dear comrade Rashida Tlaib!
NEW from
@RashidaTlaib
calling for a ceasefire now in Gaza: "President Biden, not all of America is with you on this one. You need to wake up and understand that."
"One goal: save lives."
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Read this speech our brother Shawn gave to the workers voting to join the UAW next month in Alabama. This is the fight we’re in. We will win when we realize that only WE can win. Here’s to storming the South and building a new labor movement, and a new nation.
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Why is our largest chapter a lightning rod right now? It’s because
@nycDSA
is a political force that represents a genuine alternative. And they use their strength not to support the status quo, but to tear it down. They stand for Palestine. They deserve all our solidarity.
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I’m humbled to be re-elected to the steering committee of
@DSA_Labor
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The UAW is blazing a historic path - they’re showing the rest of labor that we CAN strike for more, we CAN reopen the closed plants, and we CAN organize the South!
Welcome to Montgomery, Alabama.
The city where Rosa Parks sat down.
And where thousands of Hyundai workers are ready to Stand Up.
#StandUpUAW
#StandUpHyundai
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Comrade Tlaib is the icon of a socialist elected in the US!
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I swear, give us four more years of this NLRB and we will win every Amazon worker to the union cause.
It’s official! Despite years of lies and deceit from Amazon, the NLRB has found that the company’s delivery drivers who unionized with the Teamsters in Palmdale, Calif., are Amazon employees, not independent contractors or gig workers without any rights.
Amazon has a legal duty
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All my solidarity to the Palestinian people today.
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Hoffa would never.
Tonight
#Teamsters
General President Sean M. O’Brien electrified the crowd at the
@labornotes
conference.
“The white collar crime syndicate known as Corporate America is hereby put on notice that the working people of America have had ENOUGH!”
#LaborNotes2022
#1u
✊ (1/2)
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The IBT has donated to the Republicans in the past, too. It was an embarrassment then and it’s an embarrassment now. The idea that you can play both sides of the two-party system is so outdated it’s like bringing a musket to a gun fight.
@Teamsters
need to get with the times.
The Teamsters weighed a $45,000 contribution to the RNC, days after union president Sean O'Brien met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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Reinstate Anthony Taylor! We won’t give the company ONE INCH! And come contract time - we’re taking a MILE!
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“After two decades of concessionary contracts, UPS Teamsters have begun the process of transforming their workplace, their union, and the labor movement. They are energized around these wins and are ready to continue the fight into the coming period.”
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I wrote a reflection on the
@DemSocialists
Strike Ready campaign for UPS Teamsters - on what we did, and what I think it means for DSA.
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What I will never tolerate is treating our staff comrades like some ‘other’ detached from the ‘real’ comrades. We are all DSA. DSA wouldn’t be such a successful org without us all. If you can’t embrace that, then there are other orgs you can call your home. Rant over.
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Teamster Thursdays will continue at UPS Jeff Street every week until our contract expires. We won’t give up one inch between now and then - and come expiration, we’re taking a mile from this company.
#705mfers
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On a drive to St Louis, I stopped by one of the few monuments to our class in the country - the Union Miners Cemetery in Mt. Olive, IL. The reason for this cemetery’s existence, and the struggle to preserve it, speaks to the forgotten war at the heart of our movement’s existence.
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Here for it.
TIM WALZ: One man’s socialism is just another man’s neighborliness
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DSA municipal election wins are one of life’s true pleasures.
🚨 BIG NIGHT FOR DSA 🚨
if results hold, the atlanta and louisville chapters may have both just ousted centrist incumbents and replaced them with democratic socialists
@sanchez4georgia
and
@jpforlou
are leading by solid margins, even winning the slippery early votes
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Autoworkers have the organization, the willingness and the self-respect to refuse to accept the current reality of the American worker. All power to them. All solidarity to them. Long live the struggle!
#StandUpUAW
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We’ve elected a left-backed trade unionist as Chicago mayor. And amid the historic moment,
@ChicagoDSA
is now adding a sixth comrade to our city council caucus. What role do we play as the left flank of a minority city government? I’m ready to dive into this struggle, we all are.
Congratulations to CDSA-endorsed candidate
@ClayFor46
who has won her race for alderperson of the 46th ward! We are so proud of our comrades and coalition partners who helped elect another democratic socialist to City Council.
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@Lfelizleon
This is what I’ve been thinking about this morning. This is unleashing the rank and file. The plants that aren’t striking are now free to their own creativity to determine what kind of chaos they can cause for the companies. So inspiring.
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Yes you’ll volunteer to canvass, but are you willing to be a human mike stand to get Bernie to run in 2024?
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It is 3 days until the election. And still, without fanfare, two
@ChicagoDSA
candidates joined Teamsters at a grocer warehouse marching for a just contract. Not for the press. For their principles. Thank you
@SigchoFor25
and
@AmbriaTaylor
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@ParentingIn2020
A lot of my coworkers have valid concerns. We’re debating this out for ourselves what this TA means for us. I just don’t think the role of the Left is to go up to workers and say “listen to us, we figured it out.” Left groups should listen to my coworkers, not preach at them.
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The
@DSA_Labor
Solidarity Fund is not just a good revenue stream - it’s an organizing tool. It does what matters most: it builds up our chapters’ capacities to do good work on the ground, and it shows workers in struggle that we are able to back them to the hilt.
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Be
#BraveLikeRashida
! Fight for a ceasefire. Build our working class movement. Join DSA!
Yesterday, in a shameful bipartisan attack, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 234-188 to censure Congresswoman
@RashidaTlaib
. Tlaib is a member and representative of DSA, and the only Palestinian-American member of the House. 1/9
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The speed of self-organization happening with auto workers in the South is remarkable. The UAW keeps showing the way for labor!
The United Auto Workers union says it has signed up the majority of employees at Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant
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@VoidOfRoses
Tbh a big “Hamas is coming” graffiti on a monument is only going to do two things: push normal people away from supporting that protest, and make politicians make this standard statement.
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DSA’s elected leaders (and leading electeds) are at the front line of the largest anti-war movement in 20 years. We’re fighting for a permanent ceasefire and Palestinian liberation. Solidarity!
Israel has killed over 14,850 Palestinians, with US support.
@POTUS
must end this genocide.
Today, I join Palestinian, Jewish, racial justice organizations, &
@DemSocialists
in a hunger strike at the White House to demand it:
Permanent ceasefire, now.
#HungerStrikeForCeasefire
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Local 700 - Chicago’s public sector Teamsters. City drivers, prison guards, clerical workers. Their PO went hard for Vairma. Expelled officers that backed OZ. Removed stewards who backed OZ. And we won by 18 votes. Don’t fuck with the best!!!!
#OZ2021
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Jane Slaughter is right. We as DSA need to go all out for our comrade Rashida in her re-election.
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Defining an elected socialist as simply another “identity” for Democrats, instead of a disciplined comrade working to build socialism in our lifetimes, leads to this. Expel him from
@DemSocialists
, for God’s sake.
US Congressman chosen to escort PM Modi to Capitol, is
@ShriThanedar
Indian-origin, Karnataka born, Shri faced struggle and made a mark in American politics.
How does he see this opportunity?
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I got my first glimpse when a dock worker shared his glasses with me.
Then, someone gave me an extra pair and I watched with a crowd.
A few stops later, I passed off my free pair to some retail workers that hadn’t seen it yet.
Loved the eclipse - loved the community more.
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Labor can go all-in on training its members to run for office. Unions can provide a program to run on, leave from the job to campaign full-time, and staff and membership support from start to finish, and after winning. It’s all possible - and we can change things for the better.
The UAW is endorsing independent Dan Osborn's run for Senate in Nebraska.
There is no Democrat in the race, and
@OsbornForSenate
has a real chance to boot the Republican incumbent.
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Sanders gets mass politics right and is laying out a clear path forward for progressives. I hope that other electeds take up these demands and put them into action!
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@DemSocialists
will go all out for our comrade Rashida. We will send comrades from across the org to campaign for her. We will whip electeds to back her. And we will not stop fighting for her grandma, and all other Palestinians, to be able to live in a free homeland.
My statement on the efforts to silence me:
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Fain is a gift for our movement. He speaks to the lived experience of hundreds of millions of us who lost a bit of our humanity every day on the job.
Bernie Sanders is holding a Senate hearing today on making a 32-hour workweek with no reduction in pay the standard in America.
UAW President Shawn Fain is testifying, and he says: "Those who profit off the labor of others have all the time in the world, while those who make
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In a time when everyone in DSA leadership is working on our immediate structural integrity, we need to show to shore up what’s necessary. That means YDSA and the NCC stipends. Nowhere else does so little go so far. They’re our energy and our future. Back them up.
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The rank & file changed the leadership of our union two years ago. Now they will decide whether to accept these concessions from UPS, or demand even more. Our coworkers will look at the TA for what it is - with open, honest eyes - and decide to accept or reject it.
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Literally on the day that the heroic
@MineWorkers
of Warrior Met hit a year into their strike, thousands of Amazon workers beat the richest man in history to form a union. Our class is tireless. We will beat them.
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At Teamster Thursday today, we talked about the importance of making Illinois the first state in the country to ban right to work. Tell your coworkers, neighbors and family members - vote YES on the Worker Rights Amendment!
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@cavazos_weems
, Glenn and others on staff spent hours on the phone with us while we were working, hearing our brain storming ideas and simply asking “what do you need to get done?” and they would do what we couldn’t.
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Thank you to
@labornotes
for publishing my piece on getting members in motion at UPS. Our coworkers are the protagonists of this contract fight. We need to get them into the fight, and we can start now.
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I will always be understanding of fiscal necessity. We need to be a smart org, and plan for financial stability. That can mean cuts, so long as it happens with a huge commitment to organize. Cutting staff and saying “we’re only going to shrink” will sink our ship.
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@CarpenterLauraG
AOC did work with us on UPS Strike Ready though. She was a signatory to our DSA electeds solidarity letter, and followed through on a lot of the deliverables - rallying with Teamsters, holding UPS accountable from her position in office, etc.
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@PrairieYoder
We do have a democracy worth defending - and deepening. It’s been hard fought for by the working people that came before us and that’s worth remembering.
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Our next step - to make
@DemSocialists
the political home for our coworkers. A bigger lift, maybe. But coming out of convention, I am more certain than ever that we will make it happen.
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“We encourage all [DSA] members within UAW 4811 to prioritize organizing for strike authorization, and should they decide to strike, we encourage all DSA members in California to support them to the greatest extent they can.”
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We could not have gotten over 100 chapters strike-ready without staff labor. Without the full-time labor of our comrades. I’m indebted to them all.
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I have never been prouder to belong to DSA. In a moment of true horror, we are proving that things can be different. Great work on writing this,
@ahSHEEK
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Historic.
Incredible scene here at Freedom Plaza right now. As speeches kick off, tens of thousands prepare to
#MarchOnWashington
.
In our thousands, in our millions WE ARE ALL PALESTINIAN 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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The ground is shifting in our renewing labor movement. Workers coming together from different shops to build solidarity. It was great to have
@workerUAW
from
@UAWD_Reform
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