The response working class people should have to “UPS drivers would make $170,000” is “Good.”
That 170k includes benefits and pension money, which used to be the norm in union contracts and should be the floor of our demands.
Your enemy is never another worker getting more.
If you spent a week on Maui at some point & experienced the aloha of the people & place, instead of posting your honeymoon pictures & telling us about your memories, go give to the Maui Mutual Aid fund or another reputable place. This is about local lives & livelihoods, not you.
I don't care if it's authentic. I don't care if it's trolling. If someone says something sympathetic to Nazis, I take them at their word that they're sympathetic to Nazis.
RFK, Jr. has now made it clear with the use of "1488" that he's sympathetic to Nazis, and I believe him.
Grammarly just announced that they've been using customer work to train their AI. If you still use their service, stop now if you care about your copyright.
To be clear, the reason that the country is in free fall and the planet burns is so that a few rich, powerful people can get even richer and more powerful. That’s it. Everything else is just noise.
I just mustered up every ounce of courage to interrupt White House Press Secretary @K_JeanPierre and urge the Biden Administration to stop approving new coal, oil, and gas projects.
The climate crisis is here now. @POTUS, listen to Gen-Z, scientists, and frontline communities
What’s so funny about all this to me is what i found so upsetting in graduate school: we’ve known how to stop recessions since the 1940s, the people in charge of doing so usually just find it morally distasteful to do what is necessary to stop them (Give People Money).
Exactly 14 years ago today—on July 24, 2009—the minimum wage was set at $7.25 while top 1% were worth $5T. Today, billionaire wealth is $45T+, meanwhile the min wage is still $7.25.
This is what generational wage theft looks like. Pay workers. Tax billionaires. #RaiseTheWage