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@orshay.bsky.social

PhD student at Cornell ILR. Interested in industrial relations, labor policy, unions, and teacher labor. Before that, I was a labor lawyer.

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What's a possible legal outcome of states challenging this? Could there be a situation where these cuts affect red states but not blue states?

03.07.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes being tortured in the El Salvador mega prison, where Trump sent him without due process β€” admittedly by mistake.

As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.

03.07.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2353    πŸ” 887    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 65

Good.

25.05.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RANDI WEINGARTEN: Trump's decision to gut the Education Department is not only illegal, it's wrong It is hard to imagine how 7.5 million kids with disabilities, 26 million kids from low-income families or 13 million young people who get financial aid for college won’t be disserved.

Teachers will be laid off. Class sizes will grow. And students with the fewest resources and greatest needs will pay the highest price.
www.foxnews.com/opinion/rand...

14.04.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

πŸ’‘New article out on strikes! I draw on interviews with ever inspiring Starbucks union activists and data from the @laboraction.bsky.social to demonstrate how workers and union activists organize different types of strikes in the United States.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

11.04.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oh, okay. Thank goodness, I was getting a bit worried.

09.04.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The momentum we continue to build in opposition of Trump’s reckless policies and in support of economic opportunity for all Americans continues to grow. bsky.app/profile/aftu...

08.04.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches β€” the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.

While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.

Hello?

07.04.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 9753    πŸ” 3843    πŸ’¬ 351    πŸ“Œ 251

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his β€œmom” and β€œdad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head.

He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.

Bring them back!

07.04.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9709    πŸ” 3777    πŸ’¬ 246    πŸ“Œ 236
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Get up, get down! NY is a UNION TOWN!

#HandsOff

07.04.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Being able to heat your home in the winter is not a luxury. It is a matter of life and death.

Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.

06.04.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4561    πŸ” 1055    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 64

The fact that this atrocity isn't the main headline of this news cycle just shows what a clusterfuck we're living through

04.04.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who’s standing up and speaking out on April 5? The people who work for a living.Β 

Across all 50 states, we’re saying Hands Off our jobs and our unions.

Find an event near you: handsoff2025.com

04.04.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Labor Secretary Pick Turns Out to Be Super Anti-Labor Surprise, surprise: Former representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer supports anti-union β€œright to work” laws and rejects a national minimum-wage hike.

Who would have thought. An anti-union rich guy gets elected president and appoints an anti-union labor secretary who supports anti-union laws. I'm shocked.

23.02.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

.@AFGENational has its members’ backs.
We stand with them.
This is an appalling, illegal abuse of power by a billionaire who gets $$ of federal largesse. A billionaire who doesn’t need federal services.
Should Presidents try to make things more efficient? Yes.
This is not that. It’s evisceration

23.02.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit.  The employer is Tony's Fresh Market lcoated in Melrose Park, Illinois.  there are 1,291 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of all full-time and part time Clerks, assistant managers, and department managers.

Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit. The employer is Tony's Fresh Market lcoated in Melrose Park, Illinois. there are 1,291 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of all full-time and part time Clerks, assistant managers, and department managers.

Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit.  The employer is Tony's Fresh Market lcoated in Chicago, Illinois.  there are 1,109 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of all full-time and part time Clerks, assistant managers, and department managers.

Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit. The employer is Tony's Fresh Market lcoated in Chicago, Illinois. there are 1,109 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of all full-time and part time Clerks, assistant managers, and department managers.

NEW: 2,400 Grocery store workers for Tony's Fresh Market across 22 stores throughout Chicagoland are unionizing with @ufcw.bsky.social Local 881.

18.02.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 215    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

When firms like Apple and Google take the hint and give up their DEI programs, that's the result.

If corporations don't track how many minority employees they hire, that number will stay low. That's the unfortunate reality.

I doubt that the US unionization rate can make up for this.

16.02.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But what Trump and Musk are doing isn't about corporate DEI. Just like anti-CRT laws aren't about CRT.

Trump wants the government and corporations to hire fewer women and black people. That's basically all this is

16.02.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

From a historical perspective, there's some truth to that. After the Regan admin started union busting in the open, corporations stopped pretending that "we have great relationship with our union." Instead,"We are committed to diversity" became a public relations go-to.

16.02.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

WHY IS MUSK GETTING AMERICANS PRIVATE FINANCIAL INFORMATION?

08.02.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 216    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

"Many of my good friends have their funding withdrawn or frozen based on the DEIA wording such as 'diverse microbes'" a scientist reliant on federal research grants told me, adding NSF proposals with terms including 'disabilities' and 'female' have been put on hold

08.02.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4718    πŸ” 1388    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 150
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Education Department employees placed on leave for attending diversity training Several employees began receiving leave notices late Friday.

Next step: firing the rest of the education department employees because they know how to read

02.02.2025 03:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Republicans came up with a strategy: every time they want to take down a part of public education, they repeat the magic words "Marxism," "transgenderism," and "green new deal."

Not sure if it's a winning strategy, but it's a strategy.

27.01.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Who would have anticipated that he won't follow up on that promise.

27.01.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why do they write these stuff? Does despair sell papers?

26.01.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two Gender Executive Order Signed by President Trump: Explained President Donald Trump's executive order essentially eliminates all genders other than male and female amongst other topics. The order also aims to eliminate gender ideology.

If there were only two genders, homeboy wouldn't have to sign executive orders against all the other genders πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

26.01.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
As schools brace for Trump's immigration raids, Dems split over how to respond A mixed response underscores the political challenges some of the largest Democratic enclaves are facing as they confront Trump’s toughened immigration actions.

Let’s be clear: not in schools. The anxiety this has caused all parents, educators & children is cruel & counterproductive . That’s why we wrote the President & asked him to change course. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

25.01.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1
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AFT’s Weingarten on President Trump’s Deportation Plans WASHINGTONβ€”AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security said it would end a policy restricting U.S.


Our @aftunion.bsky.social members have a responsibility to all children. We don’t question the immigration status of our students or patients. We're respectfully asking President Trump to restrict ICE arrests at sensitive locations such as hospitals and schools. www.aft.org/press-releas...

22.01.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Can't he just break with the constitution and hope the Supreme Court will back him up? Like he's doing with birthright citizenship

24.01.2025 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hamas hands over Gaza hostages to Red Cross, en route to Israel ICRC collect Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Doron Steinbrecher from Hamas terrrorists β€’ Report: Israel received word hostages in 'good condition'

Welcome back home πŸŽ—

#BringThemHome #Israel

19.01.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0