Dan Osborn Wants to Help the Working Class Run for Office

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Mr. Osborn, the industrial mechanic who turned a long-shot #Senate bid in red #Nebraska into an unexpectedly tight race, is starting a PAC aimed at recruiting more blue-collar candidates like himself.

By Jonathan Weisman
Nov. 19, 2024, 5:04 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/politics/dan-osborn-working-class-pac.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bE4.F9aU.DeoNpcvqw1bW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #DemocraticParty #politics #news #press

What is resistance? From a second Trump presidency to the carnage in Gaza, it takes various forms
https://theconversation.com/what-is-resistance-from-a-second-trump-presidency-to-the-carnage-in-gaza-it-takes-various-forms-243511

#DonaldTrump #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #xenophobia #Project2025
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia
#Gaza #Palestine #HumanRights #freedom #Israel #Netanyahu #genocide #WarCrimes #ICC #ICJ
#resistance #protest #solidarity #organizing #unions

Whenever journalists report on labour disruptions — strikes or lock-outs — they ought to tell us what current salaries are. How can the public come to any view about the disruption in the absence of such key information?

#news #journalism #strikes #LockOuts #labour #labor #unions

I was rattled out of my liberal bubble at the doctor's office this morning: the TV was playing hard-fascist propaganda about how teacher's unions are the enemy within for opposing America's champion, President Donald Trump

The TV was set to a local news station owned by Sinclair, showing the unbranded National News Desk
#fascism #trump #sinclair #media #uspol #unions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XisTLqbryMU

Strike success! Boeing machinists successfully negotiated a 38% pay rise over four years, a $12k bonus, and increased 401(k) match by going on strike.

When workers stand together, they fight for better working conditions from a position of strength. #Unionize!

#unions #unionStrong

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/11/05/boeing-strike-ends/75989603007/

There's a form of externalization that happens where people argue that "#unions are good but I could never organize my workplace, my coworkers are too <x> and we would get <y> ramifications."

But that's not different from anywhere else

There are strategies for that. There is a wealth of experience.

Instead it often seems like a way to deflect responsibility.

_Those_ people should organize. Not me.

At a time when people increasingly feel disempowered and without outlook, the "mill girls of Lowell" offer an inspiring story of human triumph in face of withering conditions.

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2064-d799-cfb1-993552020832

#capitalism #unions #industrial #feminism #midjourney #history #19thcentury #NewEngland #Massachusetts
@histodons