People’s General Strike

climate and labor movement calling for a #GeneralStrike on August 1st, 2023 ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼

[Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip]

Walmart employees are overworked and underpaid. Get it, Beth! 🫴🛒

[People’s General Strike @pgstrike]

As a small slice of the DC beltway tunes into the #StateOfTheUnion for a night full of backpatting and self congratulation, let’s remember millions of Americans don’t HAVE a union, and millions more are one bad day away from homelessness.

We need UBI and universal housing NOW 🗣

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

More than half a million workers are on strike across the UK today, the biggest strike in a decade. Schools are closed, railroads are halted, and government offices are empty. The unions are striking for better pay with the cost of living soaring.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Global pesticide use has soared by 80% since 1990,

Pesticides responsible for estimated 11,000 human fatalities and the poisoning of 385 million people every year
And falls of around 30% in populations of field birds and grassland butterflies since 1990 https://t.co/sq7RKflXYm

[People’s General Strike @pgstrike]

“TGIF” doesn’t mean the same to workers in the service industry, many of whom are about to start the busiest parts of their weeks while they ensure YOU get your table served, drinks at the bar, and coffee made on the weekend.

S/O TO THE SERVICE INDUSTRY ON FRIDAY!

[Daily Kos Guild @DailyKosGuild]

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[People’s General Strike @pgstrike]

join the #GeneralStrike in the United States on August 1st. it's time to stand up for safer working conditions, higher pay, and universal basic income to workers have the ability to refuse a job.

RT & LIKE to spread the word and take a pledge to strike at https://t.co/pKz368cRLT

[Rotimi Adeoye @_rotimia]

Senator Grassley voted against the creation of MLK day in 1983

[People’s General Strike @pgstrike]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for labor rights because he knew that worker's rights were essential to achieving racial justice.

Today we reflecting on his legacy and the activists that are still working to make his dream a reality. #MLKDay2023

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

As you commemorate #MLKDay, please remember my mother, as well. She was the architect of the King Legacy and founder of @TheKingCenter, which she founded less than three months after Daddy was assassinated. Without #CorettaScottKing, there would be no MLK Day.

#MLKDay2023

[Rotimi Adeoye @_rotimia]

The canonization of MLK reminds us of his heroic status as a civil rights leader, but in some ways it’s led to the sanitization of his message.

[Rotimi Adeoye @_rotimia]

Today I wrote about one of MLK’s last speeches before he died and how his legacy calls for us to embrace a revolution of American values and cognizant citizenship. My latest for @thedailybeast : https://t.co/IL4wS4mK5N

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: A bill banning all individual stock trades in Congress has been reintroduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The TRUST Act would force members, spouses & dependents to put many investments in a blind trust.

[The Climate-Labor Podcast @ClimateLaborPod]

new episode just dropped! 🚨🚨🚨

we discuss California flooding and mudslides, the FAA disaster yesterday, the Supreme Court case on workers' right to strike, and Katie Porter entering the CA Senate Race.

https://t.co/DZ01mZXTXO

[People’s General Strike @pgstrike]

where is the @NLRB when you need them?

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Breaking a rail strike.
Going easy on airline cancellations.
The Southwest meltdown.
Now the FAA computers are down.

At a certain point, neoliberals need to come to terms that the DOT is not performing well.

[The Climate-Labor Podcast @ClimateLaborPod]

did you miss our first episode last week? catch up on episode 1 of The Climate Labor Podcast now
https://t.co/7jjNsFaPCU

[Working Families Party 🐺 @WorkingFamilies]

This is the longest period in US history without a federal minimum wage increase.

[People’s General Strike @pgstrike]

new year, same fight! meet us there tomorrow 💪🏻💪🏽💪🏾

[NY Taxi Workers @NYTWA]

#HappyNewYear brothers and sisters! 2023 will be the year of the workers, the righteous, the compassionate ones willing to fight for the better world!

$12M by 12AM tonight - stolen from drivers. Wage theft is so last year. This year, we win it all back - and then some!

[🖤 Cunty MeMe🖤 @cuntymeme]

now if Greta had taken the high road this man wouldn’t have gotten arrested. TALK YO SHIT 2023 & 4EVA