Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽

Parent. Spouse. Attorney. Labor activist. Leftist Democrat. Adjunct law professor. Small business owner. Provocateur. Chilang@. In no particular order.

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

FYI, @nadia_lathan, the Western Electrical Contractors Association does NOT represent "non-union electrical workers" and is NOT a "labor group." It represents anti-union electrical contractors (a.k.a. the bosses).

A clue is their name ("Contractors Association")

Cc: @vosdscott

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@katewillett A hit dog will holler...

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

.@AOC responds to this trend: "BOOOOO"

"This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together. And I think that the discourse around 'Everyone, let's all be like billionaires and opt out of our taxes,' I don't find it an inspiring message."

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@KevinSabellico Wait until you learn that part of the island of Alameda (where the City of Alameda is located) is within the borders of the City and County of San Francisco...

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@Ergoat Now you're just making things up. Taft-Hartley does zero to prohibit non-union wildcat strikes.

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Nah, no chip on my shoulder. I'm not the one whining here, after all.

Your culture isn't being supplanted (unless you chose to supplant it).

But you don't get to say that *your* culture is the default for others.

Because that would be supplanting *their* culture.

Capisce?

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Sorry that's BS about limited space. You obv omitted jazz, blues and gospel because -- to you -- they are not cultural touchstones. And that's OK. People can have different formative experiences. Just because something isn't emblematic of your youth doesn't make it less American.

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Jazz, blues and gospel music are just as much cultural touchstones in the US. Yet they don't make your list. Wonder why? 🤔

You might also want to study the difference between "aspersions" and "aspirations" - as well as between "fairy tails" and "fairy tales" 🤣

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Of course those are aspirational. Quite universal, too.

Way more representative of what it means to be American than your original (rather juvenile) list: "Americana, red white and blue, rock and roll, American exceptionalism, suburbia, hope, freedom, bbq, Hollywood, fast cars"

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 The Hollywood fantasy was that your personal experience defines what it means to be American. You believed the myth that the nation revolved around you.

The fact you call it "aspirational" proves my point. It was a marketing gambit sold to the masses. And you feel for it. 🍭

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Then you're angry at someone else, because I didn't say that.

I said your experience was real. But it was not (was never) universal.

Your experience was not a fantasy. But believing that your particular experience = a universal experience of Americanism? That is a fairy tale.

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 I don't doubt it's how you grew up.

What I'm challenging is the notion that your particular experience growing up is somehow THE American experience. That's the fairy tale.

Being so angry that others have (and have always had) a different experience of America is just infantile

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 That's a pretty narrow definition of Americanism that was *never* a universal representation of our country.

You were sold a Hollywood fantasy and are crying that it's not other's reality.

Grow up.

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

A union of federal workers, in solidarity with communities facing DHS invasions, has called on the Senate to shut down the government absent meaningful reforms to ICE and CPB.

None of us are safe unless all of us are safe!

Solidarity Forever!

[National Labor Relations Board Union @TheNLRBU]

We, the employees of the NLRB, are calling on members of Congress to reject the Senate’s proposed funding deal unless it includes meaningful reforms for ICE and CBP’s operations.

Our Union has never endorsed a government shutdown before. But we believe we have no other choice.

[NC Democratic Party Staff Union @NCDemsUnion]

For the first time since 2022, we’re back at the bargaining table.

Today, NCDP staff shared testimony with management about our past experience with layoffs as well as the potential harm of AI to our work.

[Josie Stratman @JosieStratman]

Mayor Mamdani says he called Trump this morning to voice his disagreement with the aggressions in Venezuela and capture of Maduro.

“I called the president and spoke with him directly to register my opposition to this act.”

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@clenchner @woodsoffin It was the term for someone whose dies had lapsed within the last 12 months. The were still a member, "constitutionally," but not in good standing. After 12 months they were no longer a member.

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@mikaelvWV @petersterne That same history that led to teaching assistants and research assistants (and now postdoctoral scholars) organizing with the UAW is also why lawyers are part of the UAW (both Locals 2320 and 2325 emerged from District 65/UAW).

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@mikaelvWV @petersterne https://t.co/CB7QTNbxUo

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@revdefeatist The reason has to do with a fascinating and little known bit of labor history that is centered on a union called District 65, profiled here: https://t.co/tRfr3LHOFX

[Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽 @ROchoaLabor]

@antifa_17 @arash_tehran @hoosier_cs My brother in Christ, they're not randos. You've been in DSA less than five months. Maybe try some self-awareness that just because you haven't yet learned about something DSA-related doesn't make it marginal?