Raise Up Ohio

Standing in solidarity with Ohio's working people through organizing, education & mobilization. "Right-to-Work" is WRONG.

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

"President Biden plans to sign an executive order on Tuesday raising the minimum wage paid by federal contractors to $15 an hour, the latest in a set of ambitious pro-labor moves at the outset of his administration." https://t.co/wHAfFfzHyF

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"Mirroring voter suppression efforts throughout the country, GOP lawmakers in 34 states have introduced 81 bills to criminalize peaceful protest, and in some cases protect motorists who mow down demonstrators." https://t.co/pWXw9j4Lwz

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

$15/hr Day of Action. May 19th, 2021. RSVP or host an event: https://t.co/zTGpGK6nuh #FightFor15

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There’s no reason for companies like @McDonalds to wait for Congress to make them pay $15 an hour. They make billions. They can and should do it RIGHT NOW. Join us on May 19 and let’s hold them accountable. https://t.co/zTGpGK6nuh #FightFor15

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

"Even as President Joe Biden called for Congress during his joint address last week to pass labor reform legislation, a slate of gig companies have spent over $1 million lobbying Congress to influence the PRO Act and other related issues in 2021..." https://t.co/kJSyOAiqGC

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

No one who works should have to make impossible decisions like “should I pay rent or buy groceries.” Companies like @McDonalds can pay $15/hr to ALL their workers.

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

Join fast food workers and activists across the country on May 19 to demand that McDonald’s, the nation’s largest restaurant employer, stop poverty wages and pay $15 to all workers now! RSVP or host an event: https://t.co/zTGpGJOMCJ #FightFor15

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

"As Republican lawmakers in major battleground states seek to make voting harder and more confusing through a web of new election laws, they are simultaneously making a concerted legislative push to grant more... access to partisan poll watchers..." https://t.co/mZp4lk8hup

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

"The description on the page doesn’t tell the reader that the content comes from a host of right-wing think tanks that work to lower taxes, slash regulations, and further empower big business and wealthy executives..." https://t.co/HjwKEkvxjN

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

"President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar suite of economic proposals is aiming to both reinforce and rebuild an American middle class that feels it has been standing on shifting ground." https://t.co/LZIVcbtts1

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

“The president’s decision to set up a taskforce to boost union membership is of a piece with other efforts in his first 100 days.” https://t.co/L6ZZLLhuo9

[Millie Vaughan @MillieVaughanOH]

Today is #OurFairMaps Day. This year we have the opportunity to redraw Ohio's rigged electoral maps.

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

"While millions of people faced layoffs and struggled to make ends meet, many of the companies hit hardest during the pandemic showered their executives with riches." https://t.co/6njLBJuKFm

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

"President Biden on Wednesday called for the passage of the PRO Act and for a $15 federal minimum wage during his first address before a joint session of Congress." https://t.co/6DkmIkIIJU

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

"Many of the organizations that have filed and signed onto briefs supporting AFPF receive cash from Koch funding vehicles and/or other major right-wing, private foundations." https://t.co/SOxDl90jIo

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“These are really extreme laws,” says Nick Robinson, a senior legal adviser with the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, which has tracked 81 anti-protest bills introduced in 34 states so far this year." https://t.co/yl9qXM7hK3

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

"...websites registered or operated by Kulture Consulting CEO Peter List have social media accounts that spread QAnon conspiracy theories, disinformation and memes that may implicitly encourage right-wing violence." https://t.co/W7Ga6Q6wHh

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

"The court’s new majority is being asked by billionaire Charles Koch’s nonprofits to expand on the notion that “money is speech” by ruling that the First Amendment bars disclosure laws that may chill large donors from giving more money to nonprofits." https://t.co/2OiR3VRNBi

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

"A group of Senate Democrats on Tuesday urged the Biden administration to reverse a Trump-era IRS rule that reduced donor disclosure requirements for certain politically active tax-exempt organizations." https://t.co/RPIZAnxkvJ

[Raise Up Ohio @RaiseUpOhio]

Tim Ryan announced he's running for U.S. Senate today.

[Tim Ryan @TimRyan]

I'm running for U.S. Senate to fight like hell to cut workers in on the deal.