Unions 4 Workers (@unions4workers) 's Twitter Profile
Unions 4 Workers

@unions4workers

A worldwide virtual community of workers, union members, leaders & activists joined together in support of ALL labor. 86,000+ on FB.

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linkhttp://www.facebook.com/unions4workers calendar_today27-11-2012 23:00:28

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Robert Reich (@rbreich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.

Andrea Junker (@strandjunker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wealth of Elon Musk 2012: $2,000,000,000 2023: $248,800,000,000 Wealth of Jeff Bezos 2012: $18,400,000,000 2023: $160,900,000,000 Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg 2012: $17,500,000,000 2023: $105,200,000,000 Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Three words: tax the rich.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (@repjimmygomez) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This tentative contract between Writers Guild of America West, Writers Guild of America East and AMPTP is a victory for the guild and all dedicated workers. It underscores the vital role of collective bargaining in securing a better future, emphasizing workers' rights and fair treatment.

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Big 3 Automaker profits: 2013: $19 billion 2014: $16 billion 2015: $26 billion 2016: $27 billion 2017: $25 billion 2018: $26 billion 2019: $22 billion 2020: $20 billion 2021: $31 billion 2022: $37 billion 2023 (so far): $33 billion So yes, they can afford to pay workers more.

AFL-CIO ✊ (@aflcio) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔥 President Biden to striking UAW auto workers: "You deserve what you’ve earned and you’ve earned a hell of a lot more than you’re getting paid now!”

AFL-CIO ✊ (@aflcio) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tim Walz isn’t just pro-teacher - he was one, he's the son of one, and he married one. He lives and breathes fighting for workers in education. That’s the kind of pro-labor leadership we need.

Robert Reich (@rbreich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nixon left office in disgrace 50 years ago today. Here's how the Republican Party has gone from "I am not a crook" to running a convicted felon for president.

AFL-CIO ✊ (@aflcio) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Joy Reid nailed it in her conversation with our Advocacy Director Jody Jody Calemine: Workers who keep our essential government services running could face job loss, financial ruin and worse under Trump’s Project 2025. That is what's at stake in this election—workers' futures.

CEPR (@ceprdc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Vance claims Dems are anti-family, yet GOP blocks the #ChildTaxCredit that would lift 500,000 kids out of poverty. Make it make sense. i.mtr.cool/qmidgmehfy

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In a show of strength, Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO ✊ – the biggest federation of U.S. unions – and six more of the nation’s most influential union leaders addressed the Democratic National Convention on its opening night. theconversation.com/democratic-par…

Robert Reich (@rbreich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Look at this graph. 

The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. 

As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. 

This is why we must build back union power.
More Perfect Union (@moreperfectus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tim Walz, speaking to union firefighters: "As a union member, our union halls are the purest form of democracy. The opportunity to speak your mind, elect leadership, speak what you want on your platform, and then ... go advocate for it. That's how democracy's supposed to work."

More Perfect Union (@moreperfectus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: United Airlines flight attendants just voted 99.99% to authorize a strike. The vote from AFA United MEC comes amid a wave of organizing and labor action in the airlines industry.

Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New Gallup Poll Shows That Americans’ Approval Of Labor Unions Remains At Its Highest Level Since the 1960s huffpost.com/entry/american… Dave Jamieson

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JD Vance: "President Trump and I are proud to be the most pro-worker Republican ticket in history and I want to talk about why we're fighting for working peo—" Unionized firefighters of Boston: "BOOOOOO"