Sam Fettig

All power to the people | He/Him | Former spox for @GovMarkDayton, @TinaSmithMN, and @KeithEllison | @UMNMorris grad

[Minnesota Nurses @mnnurses]

Corporate executives hold outsized power over patients and workers in our healthcare system. This law will help balance the scales as nurses carry on the fight to put #PatientsBeforeProfits.

#UnionStrong #1u

https://t.co/1ktdXVsV9T

[Sam Fettig @SBFettig]

“The big argument against us unionizing was it would make the CEO's life harder, which he would repeat several times. It wasn’t very successful.”

[Michael Sainato @msainat1]

Barnes & Noble workers are unionizing go improve pay and working conditions. They just won at their 6th election, despite the CEO showing up each time to discourage unionizing
https://t.co/9h1MxrYaA6

[Michael Sainato @msainat1]

Barnes & Noble workers are unionizing go improve pay and working conditions. They just won at their 6th election, despite the CEO showing up each time to discourage unionizing
https://t.co/9h1MxrYaA6

[Union Advocate @unionadvocate]

Video game workers in MN and two other states made history in March, winning recognition of the industry's largest union, Activision Quality Assurance United, an affiliate of @CWAUnion. https://t.co/7PRy50QFiB

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 25 Mar 1911 a fire took place in the New York Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, killing 147 workers, with most of the victims being women and young girls. The owners were charged with seven counts of manslaughter but weren't found guilty https://t.co/uSVG9WUujR

[Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt]

A Good Year for Workers—Union contracts negotiated in 2023 gave workers the highest average first-year wage increase for any year since the 1980s

Workers received a 6.6% average 1st-year raise—With signing bonuses & lump-sum payments, the average was 7.3%
https://t.co/7HS903Y5N9

[Minnesota Nurses @mnnurses]

“Higher CEO pay is a symptom of the corporatization of health care. Being a CEO is not an easy job, but is it 100 times more difficult than the job of cleaning hospital rooms?”

#CorporateHealthcare #HealingGreed #PatientsBeforeProfits #mnleg

https://t.co/C79yAdiqw8

[Zak Yudhishthu @zyudhishthu]

1988 Dunn Bros ad in the Mac Weekly, right after the shop opened

[Sam Fettig @SBFettig]

"she was already disappointed that Biden had not been able to forgive student loans or protect abortion rights. 'This is like the breaking point for me' [...] She hopes Biden will shift his policies instead of blaming voters."

[Laura McCallum @LauraMcCallumB]

"Uncommitted" gets about 19% of the Democratic presidential primary vote in Minnesota on #SuperTuesday, which should mean delegates to DNC in Chicago. Story from @bbierschbach @josie_strib:
https://t.co/NYKSruZnMF

[SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa @SEIUHCMNIA]

Happening Now:
The Biggest Nursing Home workers ULP Strike in the history of Minnesota
Over 1000 caregivers across 12 homes!
#UnionsForAll #WinTogetherMN

[Christopher Ingraham🦗 @_cingraham]

NEW: Police chases in Minnesota have killed dozens of people since 2017. Most stem from traffic stops and nonviolent crimes. About half of the people killed are bystanders or passengers in the vehicles being pursued. https://t.co/sp4b6PFhYb

[CCX News @ccxnews]

REI workers picketed in front of the company's Maple Grove store as part of a 2-day strike protesting what they describe as "unfair labor practices." The workers accuse the company of taking away merit raises from unionized stores across the country.

https://t.co/d8S2sS8lbT

[Minnesota Legislative Library @MinnLRL]

Sen. Erin Murphy will be the only person to serve as House Majority Leader and Senate Majority Leader. We have historical lists of majority leaders! https://t.co/BgID7GJvyZ AND https://t.co/rPJ0jst7q7

[Abdallah Fayyad @abdallah_fayyad]

As it turns out, shoplifting rates were lower by the end of 2022 than they were before the pandemic. So I wrote about one of America's latest moral panics—the shoplifting wave that wasn't—and how it's undoing years of progress in criminal justice reform. https://t.co/GUrQohJW23

[Sahan Journal @SahanJournal]

A group of Uber and Lyft drivers announced plans for a strike at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

By: @GalvanReports

https://t.co/7pKfu40gEi

[Jason Linkins @dceiver]

HuffPost has been sitting on @Travis_Waldron's Kissinger obit but it's a banger https://t.co/l9tKYiOsXr

[Racket @RacketMN]

A Vampiric Hedge Fund Is Eating the Pioneer Press Alive: https://t.co/Iqd5bImkDS

[Max Nesterak @maxnesterak]

At Mayo Clinic, workers say it’s just standard operating procedure to wait months to get appointments, plead with insurance representatives on hours-long calls and ultimately pay thousands of dollars for their health care. https://t.co/tuutOLn5XL via @mnreformer

[Christopher Ingraham🦗 @_cingraham]

Small business owners in Minneapolis say the city forced them to hire off-duty MPD officers for security gigs. Some were led to believe MPD wouldn't respond to their calls if they refused. The officers often insisted on cash payment. https://t.co/OBYvnosrGv