Eric Blanc

assistant professor of labor studies RU; @organizeworkers, @ruaaup; my Substack is 🌹

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

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[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

Does anybody have a good explanation for why non-college educated workers since the 1980s have significantly increased their desire to work even without financial need?

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

Despite what our AI overlords claim, work provides connection and purpose: over two-thirds of Americans would keep working even if they didn't need the money

Federal jobs guarantee > UBI

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

One way you know COGE is going to be great is that @DrSusanLK was appointed to it🌹

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency.

This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. 

New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

@richten_nach https://t.co/77PoIWQKMj

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

Forget McKinsey or Musk, bring in a democratic socialist to actually make government efficient and effective

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency.

This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. 

New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

The Left needs to show it can deliver bold, ambitious new public services.

Zohran Mamdani can transform the Economic Development Corporation into an incubator for public goods that can meet the needs of all New Yorkers. https://t.co/wyedWdg15s

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

If Debs were alive today, he’d be the first to put his five bucks in the hat to rent a bouncy castle for our next event

https://t.co/SQrZ1ZWJPt

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

The left needs to provide the joyful community most people lack in our lonely, phone-addicted era. As long as we cede that ground, the right will keep filling it

[Teamsters @Teamsters]

Amazon Teamsters in New York City are about to pass the Delivery Protection Act, a new law that holds corporations accountable if they threaten public safety.

Now Amazon is spending millions of dollars to intimidate lawmakers into selling out everyday New Yorkers by putting corporate profits before common-sense public safety standards.

Don’t be swayed by Amazon’s lies. Stand with New York City workers in supporting the Delivery Protection Act!

*Cough* we’re looking at you @CMShaunAbreu

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.

Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.

We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.

We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.

Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.

That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

Very impressed by the 200+ students at Binghamton, led by a great YDSA chapter, who walked out on May Day to demand their school stop funding Flock Safety and ICE

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

URGENT: Joseph Adetola is a Rutgers engineering masters student with no criminal record whose been taken by ICE — he's in dire need of bond funds to get out of detention, please donate (link below)

https://t.co/72E1kG2Zn7

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

swedish socialists understand the importance of bouncy castles — a photo from today's may day in malmö, sent by a comrade

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

Jacobin has been right about almost everything since 2016, will be true over next decade too

[Jacobin @jacobin]

In celebration of May Day, we’re offering one-year digital subscriptions for just $1 and print ones for $10 — our most affordable rate of the entire year.

Subscribers get four beautiful issues of our magazine and access to our entire back catalog: https://t.co/mQilhZVImB

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

New York, let's get organized.

In a city of over 8 million, just 400 people showed up to speak at the last Rent Guidelines Board hearing — where decisions about rents are made.

We can do better.

If we want a city that works for tenants and landlords alike, we need New Yorkers to show up and make their voices heard.

The next hearings are this June. Visit https://t.co/LI1gCRCLJ5 to get involved.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has accomplished much in just a few months.

But one major thing is missing from his tenure thus far: activating mass participation of working-class New Yorkers in the fight for his ambitious agenda. https://t.co/hYCwzerdkz

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

It's fantastic that Zohran is delivering. But it’s a problem that workers are receiving the goods instead of helping win them

https://t.co/UNrg91n8Zp

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

Rutgers students and faculty disrupted our Board of Governor's meeting to demand Rutgers become a sanctuary campus and drop its contracts with corporations propping up ICE 🙏

[Hayden 🪿 @haydengise]

NYC-DSA should do a public campaign to push her to release her tax return.