Morning! It's day two of this House session week. A gaggle of House Democrats are starting with a presser featuring the state's building trades president and a top state environmental advocate to launch a state 'Blue-Green' Caucus.

Another Philadelphia W

Also what is Mesa, AZ doing? lol

From your Organizing Kit! Join your USA 829 kin for the Organizing for Power: Core Fundamentals course. This virtual class, from Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey, teaches attendees the five core principles of organizing over the course of five consecutive Tuesdays...

Without a plan on the rent, we don’t have a plan on inflation.

The rent is too damn high, and there are still shots the Biden admin needs to call. The most important and urgent: rent regs in all units financed with federally-backed loans. They can do this, and they should.

Solidarity never tasted so good! Thanks for coming out and supporting us.

For the first time, Teamsters and SEIU have endorsed the Green New Deal for Public Housing!

These unions represent thousands of public housing employees and tenants. We’re excited to continue growing the coalition of unions, workers, and residents advocating for our bill.

BREAKING: Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama have filed to form the company's first U.S. union.

A supermajority of the plant's 5,000 workers have already signed union cards to join UAW.

We are seeing the fruits of the largest organizing drive in modern American history.

🚨 The UAW filed charges today against Mercedes-Benz Group AG for violating Germany’s new law on global supply chain practices. Mercedes-Benz’s aggressive anti-union campaign against U.S. autoworkers in Alabama is a clear human rights violation under the German Act on Corporate

1989: Margaret Thatcher, 'Privatised water is a better deal than nationalised water.. Water privatisation will go very successfully indeed'

2024: Victoria Derbyshire, 'Huge scale of raw sewage dumped by water companies into our rivers and seas.. For more than 3.6 million hours'…

Uber and Lyft are both planning to leave Minneapolis on May 1st, the day a minimum wage for drivers goes into effect.

So the worker-owned rideshare service The Drivers Cooperative says they're going to expand to Minneapolis by May 1st.

This is what contracting/ subcontracting everything out looks like. We value these job—& the people who do them—so little that we as a society were fine with sticking those guys up there in the dead of night, ships passing under their feet, w/ no direct line to emergency dispatch

'What it means is that you change your focus from electoral politics to building labor power through worker organizing. And by organizing workers, you naturally grow your own political power in a way that writing checks to politicians never does.'

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Exciting news! After years in the making, our mural is almost ready to be unveiled. 🎨🖌️

Last week, we joined forces with Mural Arts Philly and IWW for a community paint day honoring Ben Fletcher, a Black working-class unionist and organizer.

Stay tuned for updates!

Volkswagen workers are voting union yes!
The election is coming up soon — April 17 - 19.
#StandupVW #StandUpUAW #UnionYes

This bill would invest up to $234 billion over 10 years to build more public housing, make it more energy efficient, and create unionized jobs.

Now imagine if we had a progressive majority in Congress clearing the path to making this bill into law.

Vouchers are education’s version of predatory lending.

They defund public schools and are almost entirely a product of today’s Right-wing politics.

My latest is up The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Chicago teachers are demanding housing for 15,000 homeless students in their next union contract. After Bring Chicago Home, the fight isn't over. My latest. thenation.com/article/activi…

You remember how Kathy Hochul and Eric Adams JUST deployed the National Guard in the subways and hired 1000 more cops even though theyd already hired 1000 cops? Well now theyre adding 800 more cops to *checks notes* crack down on fare evasion 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

Jeffrey Yass, the GOP megadonor funding the first attack ads against Summer Lee, is the perfect example of the ties between the far-right in the US and Israel.

Let's meet him 🧵

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