Alex Campbell

Director, @ITUC_GU_IFI | Int’l development for the workers | Husband to @valentinastackl

[Alex Taliadoros @AlexCTaliadoros]

Supporting a bill to gut DC’s Home Rule over a 20-cent delivery fee is insane.

No more @DoorDash for us, DC.

[Alex Campbell @yoACampbell]

Big tech needs our cities, our streets, our demand to stay in business. Let’s keep finding ways to say no!

[Jake Blumgart @jblumgart]

Councilmember Young introduced a bill that would essentially zero out robot deliveries in Philadelphia, charging companies $1,000 per automated delivery https://t.co/SFVirbhqrD

[Jake Blumgart @jblumgart]

Councilmember Young introduced a bill that would essentially zero out robot deliveries in Philadelphia, charging companies $1,000 per automated delivery https://t.co/SFVirbhqrD

[Alex Campbell @yoACampbell]

@blagojevism wow

[32BJDC_MD_VA @32BJDC_MD_VA]

This isn’t isolated- @kenyanmcduffie has photos of 32BJ members on his campaign website without permission and despite the fact that our members did NOT endorse his mayoral campaign!

[Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO @DCLabor]

Yesterday, @GCAARNow began distributing materials to DC voters claiming that our Council along with @IAFF36 and DC Nurses endorsed @kenyanmcduffie. This claim is patently false.

Not only did we NOT endorse McDuffie, not a single union has endorsed him. Our statement:

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

"Organizing Capital Is a Core Test of State Capacity" Why Some States Can Organize Capital, While Others Are Organized by Capital
a brilliant comparative study of capital discipline in the experience of east asia, europe, US, india, vietnam
https://t.co/v8vl1Q3vYr

[April Verrett @SEIUPres]

Governor Spanberger’s decision to veto public sector collective bargaining is a betrayal to Virginia’s workers who were promised change.
We’re disappointed, not deterred. We will not stop fighting until all workers in Virginia have their rights protected by law. Onward.

[Mona Ali @MonaAli_NY_US]

It's always fun to read Martin Wolf but the below para. is simply not true. The US and the UK were the dominant deficit countries (in absolute terms) long before the eurozone crisis. Also it's weird to call the US the great balancer when its deficit is the largest contributor to global imbalances. I think it would help the discourse to try to understand these imbalances in proper context - that we live in a global dollar system. https://t.co/KqFUOYV4fS

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

Very right empirically on US and UK imbalances. And yes, the last point Wolf makes is wild: the US capital surplus is as much a contributor to global imbalances as the Chinese trade deficit and it too is maintained by a highly imbalanced domestic political-economic equilibrium characterised by high rates of extraction which guarantees the high returns which have been the principal driver of in-bound financial flows and demand for dollar assets.

[Lula @LulaOficial]

No 1º de Maio, Dia do Trabalhador e da Trabalhadora, eu quero falar com você, que trabalha duro durante cinco, seis, até sete dias na semana e vê o fruto do seu esforço ir embora para pagar as dívidas da sua família.

Nós encontramos o Brasil e os brasileiros endividados. A dívida das famílias cresceu por anos e agora está sufocando uma parte da sociedade brasileira. Por isso, vamos lançar, na próxima segunda-feira, o Novo Desenrola Brasil, um conjunto de medidas para ajudar a resolver a vida financeira das famílias endividadas.

As trabalhadoras e os trabalhadores poderão negociar dívidas do cartão de crédito, do cheque especial, do rotativo, do crédito pessoal e até do FIES.

Os brasileiros endividados terão juros mais baixos, de no máximo 1,99%, e descontos de 30% até 90% no valor da dívida. Assim, você vai ter uma parcela bem menor e mais tempo para pagar sua dívida. E cada pessoa poderá sacar até 20% do saldo do Fundo de Garantia por Tempo de Serviço.

Agora, o que não pode é renegociar a dívida e continuar perdendo dinheiro apostando em bet. Por isso, quem aderir ao Novo Desenrola Brasil ficará bloqueado por um ano em todas as plataformas de apostas on-line. Não é justo que as mulheres tenham que trabalhar ainda mais para pagar as dívidas de jogo dos maridos.

Não foi nosso governo que deixou as bets entrarem no Brasil, mas é o nosso governo que vai colocar um limite à destruição que elas vêm causando.

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

a backlash to tech, not just cell phones, is brewing in public schools

https://t.co/rx6aRMT0Zi

[Central Unitaria de Trabajadores @cutcolombia]

💻📲 Hoy A Fondo con la CUT a través de nuestra página de Facebook

[Congressman Chuy García @RepChuyGarcia]

Me preocupa sumamente la guerra judicial emprendida por el presidente ecuatoriano Noboa contra sus opositores políticos, la cual incluye la proscripción del partido político más grande del país hasta después de las elecciones de noviembre. Ahora, Noboa está persiguiendo al excandidato presidencial Andrés Arauz por «intentar influir en las instituciones del Estado», una acusación política infundada.  

Continuaré siguiendo de cerca el caso de Andrés e insto a que se protejan sus derechos humanos, así como los de otros opositores políticos.

[Congressman Chuy García @RepChuyGarcia]

I am extremely concerned about Ecuadorian President Noboa’s lawfare against political opponents, which includes banning the country’s largest political party until after its November elections. Now, Noboa is persecuting former Presidential candidate Andrés Arauz for “attempting to influence institutions of the state”—a baseless political accusation.

I will continue to monitor Andrés’ case closely, and urge the protection of his and other political opponents’ human rights.

[Michael Galant @michael_galant]

However it ends, the US-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon will have lasting economic impacts across the Global South.

@Ivana_V_L and I are in @thehill calling for one solution: a new issuance of SDRs
https://t.co/Ym5MRh2hIb

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

If labour’s share of global income had stayed at its 2004 level, workers would have received an additional $2.4 trillion in 2024 alone. Speaking tomorrow at the L20 event hosted by @AFLCIO on what it takes to reverse this: conditionalities on public investment that share both risks and rewards.

Wed 15 April | 15:00 ET | In-person & online | Registration links below

[Siddhartha Mahanta @sidhubaba]

"The estimated $12 trillion held in employer-sponsored defined contribution plans is a great prize for unregulated financial actors. ... the Trump Administration has been an ally, placing the growth of this unregulated finance at the center of its agenda." https://t.co/hy2GPNKeua

[Elizabeth Wilkins @ewwilkins]

Check out this take on going after waste fraud and abuse: scrutinize McKinsey first, not low income beneficiaries.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Earlier this week, I broke fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody, Department of Correction staff, Commissioner Stanley Richards, and Councilmember Yusef Salaam.

It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time. People sharing what little they have: breaking bread, offering prayer, making space for one another’s dignity even in the hardest place.

In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity.

May we extend that mercy as far as we can. Eid Mubarak to all.