David Gumbiner

[Chris Brooks @chactivist]

Teamsters organizing Amazon workers in Iowa say they aren’t going to the Labor Board. They’re going old school: recognition strikes. ✊ https://t.co/cnFG9Bdoqq

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

I’m sorry—an unelected parliamentarian does not get to deprive 32 million Americans the raise they deserve.

This is an advisory, not a ruling. VP Harris needs to disregard and rule a $15 minimum wage in order.

We were elected to deliver for the people. It’s time we do our job.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Bernie announces his next move: An amendment to take tax deductions away from large corporations that don't pay above $15-an-hour wages. Wants it IN the reconciliation bill

[E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer]

I'm not a battery EV absolutist, but if there's a single category of vehicle that makes sense as 100% BEV it's postal delivery vehicles. The longest rural USPS route is <200 miles and the average is 45 miles, and they are consistent and non-dynamic. This is dumb.

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

What Biden missed in his town hall last week is that public college USED to be free. Cancelling student debt is a step toward fixing the commodification of education.

[Sandeep Vaheesan @sandeepvaheesan]

One of many lessons from Texas electricity fiasco:

Don't force people to comparison shop for essential services. It is burdensome, makes life even more complicated, and creates another playground for deceptive, high-pressure marketers.

[Ben White @benabyad]

Maurice Hirsch was the Israeli military's chief prosecutor in the occupied West Bank until 2017.

[Harold Pollack @haroldpollack]

The phrase "SSI's $2,000 countable asset limit" induces narcolepsy in a "University of Rochester to keep name" way. That's too bad, because the limit hasn't increased since 1989. Raising it may be the single best thing we can do to help disabled Americans https://t.co/b5r6ZUZwUe

[Vincent Bevins @Vinncent]

🇺🇸🇺🇸 "The greatest state in the greatest country in the world has been without power. We have food lines, gas lines, and people sleeping at the neighbors' houses. Our homes are freezing and our lights are out." 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Tarence Ray @tarenceray]

Things are so bad now that, instead of having to respond to people’s grievances and demands, politicians just have to ride out a week or two of bad press before the next bad thing overwhelms and buries the previous bad thing

[Hannah Murphy @MsHannahMurphy]

NEW: A Facebook manager warned internally that the company made revenues it “should have never made” by overstating how many users advertisers could reach, according to class action lawsuit

Execs refused to fix the issue "to preserve FB's own bottom line"
https://t.co/7WGk3He8ue

[Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Council @Kaplan4Oakland]

Oakland is the best place to add a WNBA team. We have a great basketball arena that’s easily accessible and on transit - and a wonderful fan base!

[David Kaib @DavidKaib]

Punishing poor people is justified as incentivizing work but making employment less onerous, safer and better paid is not, somehow.

[Progressive Caucus @USProgressives]

BIG NEWS: the Progressive Caucus has secured the inclusion of a $15 minimum wage in the House's pandemic reconciliation package.

This has been a leading priority for our caucus and would give 27 million (!) low-wage workers a raise.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Amazon workers are exposing what's happening in Alabama.

They say Amazon is forcing them into anti-union meetings, texting them up to 5x daily, putting messages in bathrooms, even changing traffic light patterns to harm union organizing.

[Motherboard @motherboard]

Workers at one Amazon warehouse were previously offered several different shift options.

Now that it's closing, they're only being offered one at a new facility from 1:20am to 11:50am, called the "megacycle." https://t.co/B22Qw2xT2G

[Dara Kerr @darakerr]

Amazon is now using AI-equipped cameras in some delivery vans to track drivers. The cameras can detect when drivers yawn or if they're not wearing a seatbelt. Drivers call the tech "unnerving" and "a punishment system." Great scoop by @annierpalmer https://t.co/KNq6cFk8QT