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Jane McAlevey

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I've just posted some important personal and professional news about my health crisis on my website. please read and share with relevant folks in our struggle for justice. My best to you all--

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Organizer. Campaign Strategist. Author. Strikes Correspondent: Nation Magazine. Power Structure Analyst. Coaching/Teaching Others to Win.

janemcalevey.com

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

5 years

There were more voting irregularities in the US states of Georgia or Florida in 2018 than in Bolivia.

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@rsgexp

4 years

My take, today: Bernie Sanders: Now More Than Ever via @thenation

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@rsgexp

1 year

Go, workers in MN, GO!

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1 year

Minnesota lawmakers are on🔥so many new pro-worker laws. (I hope there’s also funding for enforcement/implementation) via @mnreformer

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

4 years

Craziest morning news headline: hospitals are so short staffed against Covid, they are going to keep nurses who test positive working. We need to create emergency pandemic tax on companies earning stiff profits off the pandemic, and pay workers to stay home when they are sick.

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@scottheins @thehousered Imagine if you had been sent the equivalent amount of communication, but it was home test kits for COVID, high quality N95 masks, and an official letter to your employer stating that if you got COVID, you had the legal right to full pay for the isolation period????

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@rsgexp

1 year

The book is out! The first negotiations book written by a negotiator for workers. Rules to Win By uses the lens of union negotiations but is applicable to any setting where the working class pulls up to win against today's hyper greedy corporate class. 1/10

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

5 years

Tesla found guilty of union busting. The Tesla auto workers in blue state CA want a union. There's nothing innovative about Silicon Valley's union busting culture--all the tech elite are so last century. Enviros in CA need to aggressively support UAW organizing at Tesla.

Josh Eidelson

@josheidelson

5 years

The NLRB judge wrote that Tesla management perpetrated "pervasive unlawful conduct." "Respondent [Tesla] by numerous supervisors and agents, including its chief executive officer [Elon Musk] and chief people officer committed many violations of the Act."

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1/7 That the main "coalition" national groups which local groups put their faith in to make the call for mass direct actions today is still silent is a repeat of Florida in 2000. The strength of the Democratic Party Industrial Complex cannot be underestimated.

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4 years

First copies of the actual book showed up! The colors on the cover are more beautiful than my phone shows... you can get a 40% off the hardcover list price up until Jan. 7, the publication date, here

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@rsgexp

4 years

"Strikes are the only tool left in the basket. Until we find our way to massive strikes, the country we once knew, problematic as it was, is done." Celebrating May Day Starts by Taking Workers Seriously via @thenation

Celebrating May Day Starts by Taking Workers Seriously

Here in the United States, workers need a lot more than another holiday.

www.thenation.com

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@rsgexp

2 years

There's simply nothing better than a winning NLRB election count. And I do mean nothing. Congrats to these workers and their entire effort @SBWorkersUnited

Tom Dinki

@tomdinki

2 years

BREAKING: Starbucks location on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo has voted to become Starbucks' first unionized store in the U.S., by vote of 19-8. Here was the moment workers realized they had enough votes. @WBFO

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@rsgexp

4 years

Neoliberal Dems are totally complicit in deliberate destruction of USPS. And most else cherished, and needed by, the working class. And they wonder why they lose major elections.

Rachel Cohen

@rmc031

4 years

Obama's former budget chief

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3 years

I am tired of defeats. But still more tired Of friends who, after each defeat, explain That actually it was a 'victory'. They talk like that So as not to be so tired of defeats That they succumb to them But that kind of talk Leads to that kind of victory --By Erich Fried

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4 years

Two forward-thinking teachers unions in CA declare Covid means schools can't open safely, and demand serious improvements to crisis distance teaching & learning, as well as real societal supports for students and parents. Science, justice & safety.

San Jose teachers will not return to the classroom until conditions are safe

San Jose Unified on Friday announced their teachers will not return to the classroom in the upcoming school year, citing the recent spikes in coronavirus cases in the state.

www.mercurynews.com

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

2 years

So refreshing to see a labor leader going after the CDC for following corporate America's needs and not the needs of workers. This wasn't sound science, it was driven by profit. Break the patent, give the world access to produce the vaccines. Go @FlyingWithSara , GO!

The Recount

@therecount

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Flight Attendants Association President Sara Nelson criticizes the CDC for shortening quarantine period from 10 days to 5 days. Nelson says this doesn't focus on public health at all, "but it was all about the staffing issues" to satisfy corporate America.

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

5 years

Now hear this, California's nurses and now it's largest teacher's union have endorsed Sanders. In 24 hours.

United Teachers Los Angeles

@UTLAnow

5 years

Tonight #UTLAStrong House of Reps voted 80% to endorse #BernieSanders , following the most comprehensive member engagement process UTLA ever conducted for a political candidate. Like UTLA, Sanders believes in building a national movement for lasting change.

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Jane McAlevey

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4 years

I tweeted several versions of this last year. Harris occupied the top of the list when the subject was "most donations from billionaires." Get strike-ready folks. The corporate wing is popping bubbly.

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

4 years

It is 1933 in America folks. As I say in the opening of my new book, "Before workers decided to build power through collective action and form the UAW in 1935, conditions in the auto plants weren't any different from the abysmal ones in today's average Amazon warehouse."

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

3 years

Berlin hospital workers held an incredibly important "warning strike" today. Why so important, versus just great? The bosses attempted 3 legal injunctions to stop them and they defeated each injunction from Friday until today. They beat the bosses legal actions by organizing! 1/5

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@rsgexp

4 years

This mess was so predictable.

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@rsgexp

4 years

I can't f*cking stand when NPR goes on about the "actually good numbers" of the economy. People and their communities, not markets, matter. Get a reality check for something sake, pain is everywhere.

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@rsgexp

3 years

At this point, isn't it time to ask @unitehere to be in charge of vaccine distribution?

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

4 years

Markey defeating "the" family dynasty is a YES for the Green New Deal, YES for unions, YES for people over privilege, and more. All are related. Biden, take note!

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

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Privileged to spend Tues 4-23 waking up live with Amy & Juan on @democracynow re current and future of working class organizing. We are in exciting yet perilous times. I am super fortunate to then head talk with @BrianLehrer re BIG UAW win and small stuff like saving democracy.

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

4 years

If Bernie wins NV, it means the Reid machine was defeated. It will be a very strong indicator that the national DNC elite can be overcome by the Sanders campaign. That’s huge. The Culinary flap was a sub-story w/in the Reid story.

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

5 years

Can't read enough articles about defeating Bezos! Will be good when the articles are about Amazon warehouse workers winning their union. But this is good, solid organizing vs big $. Amazon Cash Fails to Oust Seattle Socialist Kshama Sawant via @thenation

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

3 years

To continue the debrief, see my take here: Bessemer: A Post-Mortem on the Amazon Campaign via @thenation

Blowout in Bessemer: A Postmortem on the Amazon Campaign

The warning signs of defeat were everywhere.

www.thenation.com

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

4 years

7/7 I wanted to be more wrong than ever today. But no. And now the national Party is playing Lucy with the football with the movement. The Call to the streets should have gone out the minute Trump held his press conference, if not long before.

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@rsgexp

4 years

First family member to fill in a ballot, one of many nieces; this is a pile of Bernie voters! So exciting!

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@rsgexp

4 years

3/7 Meanwhile, the forces behind Trump are right on schedule, they don't worry about acting like grown ups but focus on winning. As planned, they framed the narrative while national liberal groups, and national unions, are still debating whether to take to streets.

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@rsgexp

4 years

Ordinary people can overcome rightwing courts. Note to selves.

Poland delays abortion ban as nationwide protests continue

Anti-government rallies continue over court’s ruling to restrict access to terminations

www.theguardian.com

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@rsgexp

3 years

@meaganmday A related item, the President doesn't want to weigh in to assist workers on strike. Which I'd argue is a policy decision. After 4 years of a guy who occupied the White House dismembering the regulatory systems which support workers, Biden's refusal is unacceptable.

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@rsgexp

2 years

I've just written a morning missive about how ordinary workers are willing & ready to fight back--and challenging our nat'l organizations to heed to the call & enable effective mass action! Rail Workers, Nurses, Teachers are Fighting from the Bottom Up

Rail Workers, Nurses, Teachers Are Fighting From the Bottom Up

When will their supposed national leaders—in unions, and in the Democratic Party—get serious?

www.thenation.com

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@rsgexp

1 year

Just out: my analysis of Glacier and how to prepare for where this pro-plutocrat court is heading on the right to strike. My focus, our strategy and what we can do now. How Should Workers Respond to the Supreme Court's Ruling in “Glacier Northwest”?

How Should Workers Respond to the Supreme Court's Ruling in “Glacier Northwest”?

The court’s ruling could have been much worse—and soon will be. Workers and unions need to be prepared.

www.thenation.com

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

4 years

Dreaming of workplace strikes? Rent strikes? Democracy? 2 min. video: Strike School starts 24 Sept, six live classes until 13 Oct. Twice per day! Build strike-ready unions, and, high participation structure-based organizations! A great team of strike-experienced teachers!

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@rsgexp

4 years

2/7 Not having gotten a text or email from Protect the Results late last night, let alone by now, is beyond troubling. Biden is doing as I predicted, following the "we are the grown ups, we should act like the grown ups."

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@rsgexp

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Continue the struggle!!! Sign up for the course I developed and have, w/ about 20 GREAT organizers, taught to 40,000 workers in 111 countries. The WORK must go on! @rls_organizing Starts May 7th--groups of 10 or more!!! Go, fight and WIN! 🩶

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Rethinking Economics

@rethinkecon

22 days

Very sad to hear this news from @rsgexp . Sending all of our love! Organising 4 Power has played such an important role in shaping our strategic direction over the past 5 years and we will be forever thankful! Sign-up to the next edition! @rls_organizing

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@rsgexp

4 years

Throughout Latin America, bold, risk-taking, well organized trade unions are at the center of genuine democracy movements. They are contesting for power and winning. Strike are key to their electoral successes. Hmmmm.

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@rsgexp

6 years

My first opinion piece in the NYTS, today, on strategy, on how to win, on how to defeat the forces behind Trump! Time to shift from rage to productive strategy, fast.

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@rsgexp

4 years

5/7 I have been saying we'd be lucky if we could drag a terrible candidate across the finish line, but enough groups worked hard enough that drag-we-likely-did--and to not do the defense of that hard work today is a strategic error, potentially fatal.

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@rsgexp

5 years

K'Shama Sawant is to Bernie and the Squad what Chicago Teachers @CTULocal1 were to the WVA education strike and @UTLAnow and @Ish_the_Dish . She got this shit going years back and she won. Again. Amazing. Beating Amazon. IT WAS REAL ORGANIZING, & structure tests!

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@rsgexp

5 years

F*ck you Mayor Pete for framing CHOICE against Warren and Sanders. He needs to be out of this race along with Biden. Playing the "choice" bullshit card mid debate renders him a tool of the bosses. UGGG. Go Sanders (nice to see him) and go Warren. DOWN with Mayor whoever.

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@rsgexp

3 years

“I come from the Marshall Ganz school of organizing,” she said, referring to the activist turned sociologist. “I try and avoid using negative language on campaigns.” How Did a Socialist Triumph in Buffalo?

Opinion | How Did a Socialist Triumph in Buffalo? (Published 2021)

The backlash against 'defund the police' didn't stop India Walton.

www.nytimes.com

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@rsgexp

4 years

Figuring out direct action during Covid, this is good tactical, creative thinking--get you brain juice brainstorms going. This is smart mobilizing. Need to use time at home for smart organizing, too (for those at home, vs pulling huge hours at work).

✡️ Never Again Action ✡️

@NeverAgainActn

4 years

BREAKING: Almost 100 cars here on multiple blocks, surrounding the Hudson County Detention Center in New Jersey! The detention centers must be emptied before they turn into death camps. ICE won’t do it; only Governors have the emergency powers to save these lives. ACT @GovMurphy

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"To abandon the strike is to abandon the concept of wage labor; for the essence of wage labor, as opposed to slave labor, is refusal to work when conditions of work become unbearable." John Steuben, Strike Strategy, 1950. The opening lines of the closing chapter of my new book.

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@rsgexp

4 years

Just getting out of jail, after helping to win a big divestment fight. #MeAt20

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@rsgexp

4 years

Buttigieg is the worst of the worst in a field with mostly unacceptable candidates. Because he's so very nasty.

Adam Jentleson

@AJentleson

4 years

Watching sneaky Pete throw progressive policies under the bus to embrace a consultant-tested talking point is unintentionally revealing. A guy who received a total of 8,500 votes in his last election now wants to be POTUS because he believes in his own ambition above all else.

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@rsgexp

4 years

Beware. They are seizing the narrative. Step it up, folks. Method & discipline matter.

Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

The grammar of American reaction is eerily resilient.

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“United Teachers Los Angeles, which represents teachers… is not a party to the labor dispute, but said its members would not cross Local 99’s picket lines. The work stoppage will be the first joint walkout by the district’s two largest unions.” 1/4

What We Know About the Los Angeles Schools Strike

The nation’s second-largest school district canceled classes for a third straight day, while thousands of employees continued to press demands for higher wages.

www.nytimes.com

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@rsgexp

4 years

Someday soon, strategic, mass strikes in key labor markets need to win Medicare for All so children's health is a right, not good charity.

California Teachers Association

@WeAreCTA

4 years

Making sure students have their basic healthcare needs met is a vital part of public education and caring for the whole student. Today CTA co-hosted the 3rd annual free mobile dental clinic providing much-needed dental services to up to 150 low-income high school students. 🦷😁

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Unionize Amazon. @lil_yenta points out if there was a union, hed be forced to share his obscene riches, earned by seeing people--whether workers or communities--as disposable. No should be able to be a trillionaire. Or billionaire.

Jeff Bezos Shouldn’t Be a Billionaire, Much Less a Trillionaire

Jeff Bezos is reportedly on pace to be the world’s first trillionaire. That’s a grotesque indictment of our society — and the only way to change it is to organize Amazon workers to wrest back the...

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@rsgexp

4 years

Abolish the electoral college. Popular vote now: Biden up by 1.4 million.

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@rsgexp

3 years

This quote reveals a total lack of understanding, as do the apps, of the purpose and beauty of real organizing. "The less time organizers can say the same thing over and over, and the more time they can spend strategizing, the better."

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@rsgexp

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"The Postal Service is too precious to be left in the hands of DeJoy...." @NicholsUprising outlines an urgent campaign that requires unity across every segment of progressives. Fire Louis DeJoy! via @thenation

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@rsgexp

5 years

Waiting and watching to see which candidates running for President, aside from Bernie (good job!), show up in person, say they will improve strike laws, & stand with workers for this strike and others.

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@rsgexp

3 years

If workers want it and build real collective power, we can negotiate 4 day work weeks (have done it). Also, negotiating self- scheduling, which gives workers the ability to swap shifts as needed, to 'lie flat,' w/ out bosses involved. Work Is a False Idol

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@rsgexp

4 years

6/7 Talk to me tomorrow about how many times I have said, and written, that the pollsters are wrong. That highly charged, highly polarized elections are the bosses strategy, moving division and futility.

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@rsgexp

4 years

They are not logic or process or rule bound.

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper

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demanding recounts where they are behind, and demanding the count be stopped where they are ahead

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@rsgexp

4 years

One of the most f**king annoying thing about the pundit class is that they are wildly confusing primary analysis from general election analysis: for the record, very different people vote in each, and, do very different things.

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@rsgexp

2 years

@AdamAhlgrim Are you unionized?? That's the solution, a good academic union, strong enough to negotiate for housing, childcare, and fixed minimum pay for your PhD. Our UCs have contracts covering your needs, so do some of the other grad worker unions. Fight, organize, don't quit, win change.

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4/7 As a result, the people trusted to 'protect the results,' have fallen into the trap and even though some groups, like some local or statewide unions are calling for actions, the turnout will be lower and thus, it will not look good. People, this shit isn't rocket science.

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@rsgexp

4 years

Evidence backing what most of us who have run campaigns already know: Dems thinking they will win by courting Rs and dissing progressive wing is idiotic.

Waleed Shahid 🪬

@_waleedshahid

4 years

An interesting dynamic in latest CBS poll: Only 5% of Republicans say they’re voting for Joe Biden. Right now that’s lower than the 8% of Republicans who voted for Obama in 2008, 6% of Republicans who voted for Obama in 2012, and 7% of Republicans who voted for Hillary Clinton.

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I have lost track of how many times stories right above or below each other reveal what a craven, cruel, profit-driven, non-scientific approach the USA has taken to this pandemic. Led by chicken sh*t politicians sacrificing our health and lives. Today's juxtaposing headlines.

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@rsgexp

5 years

What you should not bother reading this Sunday: the special section #workingwhilefemale . Like the #metoo special, an entire section about working women with NOTHING ABOUT UNIONS. For f*ck sake. I could dissect it all, but why? Negotiate with your colleagues in a union.

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The rank & file created the wealth, and the money the boss "found" after July 5th. In the hottest month on earth, all working class organizations have to do more. The Teamsters’ Proposed Agreement with UPS Is a Great Victory by and for the Workers

The Teamsters’ Proposed Agreement With UPS Is a Great Victory by and for the Workers

But the working class needs much more. And these moments when workers have huge strategic power in a tight labor market are fleeting.

www.thenation.com

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3 years

"INVESTORS" ARE NOT HUMANS IN NEED OF HOMES. It should be illegal for them to buy homes. As it shoukd be illegal fir corporations to be people under election law. Revolution time. Need way stronger movements. Unions need housing as top issue.

Real-Estate Frenzy Overwhelms Small-Town America: ‘I Came Home Crying’

Buyers far from big cities lose out to investors and deep-pocket rivals in places where properties until a year ago offered affordable entry to the middle class.

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4 years

Umm, trade union organizing 101 here, framed as academic discovery. Good unions have practiced, race-class-gender conversations and "messaging" for a couple hundred years. Those of us that win start w/ teaching semantics & how to have a SOC-Structured Organizing Conversation.

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper

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seems that class-framed messaging around racism gets the political goods

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@rsgexp

3 years

Summary of session #1 , course #4 , @rls_organizing notes are well done! Courtesy of, and gratitude for @imtired_666

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@rsgexp

4 years

This is a powerful reminder of why unions (and progressives) need to especially recruit veterans into organizing & strike efforts; they bring solidarity, experience w/ troop formation, are racially diverse working class, committed to plans-to-win, and more.

ALBΞRT MacGloan

@AlbertMacGloan

4 years

The send off for Captain Brett Crozier who was relieved from duty for TRYING TO SAVE THE LIVES OF HIS CREW

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@rsgexp

4 years

Can't think of a worse, or more dangerous, development than this one. Hope NY education & healthcare unions are getting prepared for the fight of their lives.

Naomi Klein

@NaomiAKlein

4 years

Anyone still hero worshiping Cuomo needs to stop right now.

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@rsgexp

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@thehousered That's your challenge, and 'ours'. To help them connect the dots between ready to challenge their bosses, to them coming to see their bosses as part of a larger system that is really hurting and undermining them. I love organizing.

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2 years

If you are wondering what to do given the US Supreme Court's anti-democratic and truly radical right consolidation of power, rather than despair, I recommend a short class on organizing. Applies to many countries, not just the USA. via @voxdotcom

Labor organizer Jane McAlevey on how the left builds power all wrong

The organizer, scholar, and writer gives a master class in political organizing on The Ezra Klein Show.

www.vox.com

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Great piece by @jonathan4212 laying out how to prepare for a 2028 mass strike. Shawn Fain’s New Year’s Resolution Is to Lay the Ground for a National Strike

Shawn Fain’s New Year’s Resolution Is to Lay the Ground for a National Strike

By having contracts with all the Big Three automakers expire on May Day, 2028, the UAW president also issued a challenge to the labor movement. Will his union be ready to meet it?

www.thenation.com

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@rsgexp

1 year

WORKERS ARE WINNING!!!! READ THIS!

(((Josh Kob)))

@kob_josh

1 year

Damn, the labor movement is sure having a nice Friday. ✊

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@rsgexp

3 years

Sadly, most public schools don't have any where near the level of ventilation required to stand a chance at keeping people safe. Decades of austerity and run down buildings are one key reason school buildings have to stay closed. Tax the rich.

Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

3 years

5) VENTILATION is key. Both ventilation and masks needed to reduce risk indoors. But most buildings not ventilated well enough.

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@rsgexp

8 months

Bravo! When we fight (smart, united and hard), we win! @WGAWest @WGA Looking forward to the details, and the process of engaging leadership bodies and all members is just beginning, but really impressive collective action!

Adam Conover

@adamconover

8 months

We did it. We have a tentative deal. Over the coming days, we'll discuss and vote on it, together, as a democratic union. But today, I want to thank every single WGA member, and every fellow worker who stood with us in solidarity. You made this possible. Thank you. #WGAStrong

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6 years

Great news. And do we ever need some.

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@rsgexp

2 years

To effectively challenge unfettered global capitalism, we need a powerful global working class movement. Each country organizing against the same bosses, then uniting across borders. Our courses are taught twice a day to accommodate the world, in 12 languages. Kick off is May 10.

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@rsgexp

4 years

We need to hear about COVID 19 from front line nurses, through their unions, not Pence, who facilitated an HIV outbreak when he was governor of IN.

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@rsgexp

3 years

Really honored to be a small part of honoring the life and work of MICHAEL BROOKS in this TRIBUTE SERIES, with @joshkahnrussell @franifio

The Michael Brooks Legacy Project

@tmbsfm

3 years

TEASER PT. 9 OF THE MICHAEL BROOKS TRIBUTE SERIES: THINK LIKE AN ORGANIZER! PREMIERES TMW NIGHT 7PM EST ON TMBS @rsgexp @joshkahnrussell @franifio

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Jane McAlevey

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Speaking of Bezos, everyone should send Sawant $. Put aside puritanical dogma and send her money. I am, right now, because he's a billionaire twisting our democracy to his 1% side. Amazon Is Spending Big to Oust Seattle’s Socialist via @thenation

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

4 years

Prop #22 on CA ballot is such an outrage for so many reasons. The ballot's language instituting a 7/8th majority vote to ever amend the Prop #22 law, if it passes, today's serious pet peeve. That's a structural assault on democracy. Rich, PAY YOUR TAXES!

Nelson Lichtenstein

@NelsonLichtens1

4 years

This piece really gets inside the exploitative business model of Lyft and Uber. The Future of the Gig Economy Is on the Ballot

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

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So great being on strike with tens of thousands of my colleagues at UCB. Day one picket lines were fantastic. Time to end precarity in higher ed, and everywhere! Brought out my pink pussy hat for 2nd picket shift of the day. Go, fight, win! @UAW5810 @uaw2865 #FairUCNow

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@rsgexp

4 years

I have a new essay on the presidential election, out today in @nybooks . Sharing lessons from the Florida recount, and our slide into strong-man authoritarianism.

Getting Out of Tight Corners | Jane McAlevey

The tint on the windows of the van transporting us to the counting room in Miami was so dark that it was difficult to see out of the windows. But it kept

www.nybooks.com

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@rsgexp

3 years

I work in many countries with "sectoral bargaining," and I can assure you, it alone is not the promised land. Direct worker participation in the process, and strikes, and strike ready unions, and power, is what gets the goods. Please read this letter, it is important.

Sara Flocks

@saraflocks

3 years

An incredibly timely, insightful, & must-read piece signed by legal/organizer luminaries: @Econ_Marshall @sanjuktampaul @veenadubal @unionista27 @NelsonLichtens1 @mer__edith @ZephyrTeachout @rsgexp @JulietSchor @snaidunl @BrishenRogers @hibahafiz

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

5 years

Go AT&T workers, GO! Standing with you.

Michael Sainato

@msainat1

5 years

Over 20,000 AT&T workers are going on strike at midnight tonight in the Southeast US

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@rsgexp

5 years

I wrote a piece about the urgent need to stand with GM workers: Striking GM Workers Deserve Our Support via @thenation

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

3 years

Second edition, softcover, with a new preface.

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

2 years

@AnandWrites Tesla, for sure. Anything Musk touches.

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@rsgexp

4 years

The nursing home industry is 1 of the endless reasons we need a single payor health care system. More than half their income is paid by taxpayers, and giant corporations make billions. ‘They Dumped Him Like Trash’: Nursing Homes Evict Vulnerable Residents

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@rsgexp

4 years

And, she and her team, and bold, smart teachers by the thousands, endorsed Sanders last fall. Nuff said.

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

3 years

We need to abolish the electoral college in the USA and it starts with members of unions abolishing the proto-electoral colleges inside our unions. Watch this video on the historic opportunity to win direct democracy in the UAW. @UAWD_Reform @MorePerfectUS

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

3 years

NEW: As 10,000 John Deere workers are on strike, UAW members are furious at union leadership for contracts that favor corporations and have led to a decline in membership. Now @UAWD_Reform is fighting to democratize UAW and throw out leaders with a history of corruption.

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@rsgexp

3 years

Blowout in Bessemer: A Post-Mortem on the Amazon Campaign via @thenation

Blowout in Bessemer: A Postmortem on the Amazon Campaign

The warning signs of defeat were everywhere.

www.thenation.com

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

5 years

Folks, the Amazon news is amazing. There will be backlash, aimed at AOC, I am guessing. Stand proud and strong, it's good for NYC not to lower itself to union busting, rent increasing, tax avoiding, billionaires who pay workers CRAP. The reason was fear of unions @DougHenwood

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@rsgexp

5 years

The disruption of the impeachment hearing today is an exact replica of the coup aka the Florida Recount. I was there for the "Brooks Brothers" mob, which was a brilliant tactic--they staged it to give Scalia the power to declare the FL Recount 'out of control'; enter, SCOTUS.

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

4 years

Oakland's teacher union strike in 2019 built their organizational capacity to defeat way better funded Billionaire school board candidates. Strikes and strike-ready unions, working w/ comm groups, are a key to rebuilding solidarity, civil society and democracy @OaklandEA

Oakland Education Association

@OaklandEA

4 years

Thank you Oakland! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 #Election2020

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

5 years

Wow! Solid reporting on anti-Sanders media bias. Meanwhile, I was with 1000 most female teacher leaders, @UTLAnow annual Leadership Conference, where Sanders fired up the room, and specifically when he linked the attack on teachers to sexism & racism.

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Jane McAlevey

@rsgexp

4 years

What countries with "democratic socialists" do during Corona.

bue rübner @buerubner.bsky.social

@BueRubner

4 years

The Danish government, unions and employers' associations have agreed to avoid job losses during the quarantine: - the state will cover 75% of wages of threatened workers - employers 25% - workers will give up 5 days of paid holiday time/work 5 days free

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Green New Dealers & everyone: find a picket line & support this strike, call your electeds to demand they support striking workers, call media. Auto Workers Go on Strike After Years of Tirelessly Helping General Motors Reach Record-Level Profits via @uaw

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