Perkins

Frances Perkins Fan Account | Labor & Employment | Trying to unfissure the workplace | #1u

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Luci Baines Johnson came to celebrate last night.

We just took back her dad’s Senate seat.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Hannah Einbinder accepting her first-ever Emmy win — “Go Birds, Free Palestine and Fuck ICE!”

See the full winners list: https://t.co/bunHQVwB8b

[Perkins @JW0776]

That sound is every plaintiff’s side employment lawyer taking screenshots of this tweet

[Zachary Jensen, EA @tax_zack]

Just reimbursed a client 3300 for a mistake my team made, now moving forward, we have decided to withhold 100 dollars per person from each pay period to cover these late penalties due to negligence until this is improved. Harsh or rational move?

[Alyssa Leader @alittleleader]

I recently had a career-high work thing happen that was the result of several ordinary people just… working together to do good for someone who needed it. It was a tough and long fight, but there were enough people pushing for the right thing to happen that we eventually won.

[polycarp ☨ @Monocarp_]

An answer I received from a student on my most recent test

[Alyssa Leader @alittleleader]

I’m gonna hold your hand while I say this but Big Law firms are not now and never have been “Doing the Right Thing” Clubs. I am shocked by the people who are shocked that these institutions are looking out for number one.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Back in 2020 and earlier your average centrist would respond to left-wing arguments by calling them anti-business and associating with people like Elon. Now that class is completely toxic overnight.

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

It is utterly insane to me that waivers of the right to a jury trial and the right to participate in a class action have not been banned already.

[Hal Singer @halsinger]

The next D candidate for president cannot let Vance get to her left on labor. Whether H-1Bs. tariffs, minimum wage, unions, misclassification, immigration, or antitrust, labor must be the lodestar. It’s time to reject neoliberalism and the elevation of consumers over workers.

[Boston Globe Pitchbot @BostonSatire]

This holiday, I will be generously donating to charities committed to protecting women’s healthcare, which was made possible by the good year I had collecting fees at my private equity firm for financing the M&A rollups of US health insurers

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

There it is, folks. The evidence is in: Kamala Harris ran the campaign of @mattyglesias’s dreams, and it led to her landslide defeat at the hands of a 78-year-old snake oil salesman.

[Perkins @JW0776]

@JCzepyha @Highdefwatch @UltraHDBluray @BFI @Dolby @Criterion A 300 inch screen? Setup pics?

[Doran Schrantz @DSchrantz]

UAW ran a member to member (worker to worker) program this cycle instead of outsourcing all of their politics to firms. They showed how they moved their members week by week into alignment with Harris. And Shaun Fain doesn’t sound like a centrist, does he? Did he message test those speeches? He sounds like his base. And he’s very popular.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

That was a cataclysm. Electoral map wipeout. Senate D practical ceiling is now 52 seats. R's is 62.

Time to rebuild the left.

We are out of touch with the crisis of meaning/purpose fueling MAGA. We refuse to pick big fights. Our tent is too small.

1/ Some early thoughts:

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

@tonywest tried to appeal to working-class swing voters through the lens of what elite swing voters want - deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It took up space that should be left to those who know better, and all it served was building his business connections.

[Perkins @JW0776]

So please, spare the takes that voters rejected Democrats despite Biden being a pro labor President. He shares the blame for not dropping out sooner when it was clear he couldn’t deliver an effective message, but Harris distanced herself from the wrong part of Biden’s legacy

[Perkins @JW0776]

The Harris campaign’s economic message was being run through the general counsel of Uber, a company that has spent hundreds of millions of dollars dismantling employment law across the country.

[Perkins @JW0776]

@ryangrim In fact, it seems to rely directly on a paper authored by a (then-current) employee of Uber, a former employee of Uber, using data provided by Uber https://t.co/RCmgm2VHXe

[Perkins @JW0776]

@ryangrim Worth noting that Project 2025's section on independent contractors (p.590) directly parrots the talking points Uber is using to erode labor standards through ballot measures in states like CA and MA.