teaching English one character at a time . . .
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Lori Kloehn retweeted
I volunteer as a translator with asylees coming through the Texas border and I wanted to make a thread on who these migrants are, what help is actually needed and why what DeSantis and Abbott are doing is so needlessly cruel.
Everyone is talking about it, but so few understand
Lori Kloehn retweeted
This Labor Day, thank unions for
- weekends
- 8-hour workdays
- a minimum wage
- paid overtime
- breaks during work
- the right to strike
- child labor laws
- workplace safety standards
Now, let us grow the trade union movement and win more for workers.
Lori Kloehn retweeted
If I wrote this as a short story, it would come off trite. But in Southlake, Texas, a middle school named for the grandson of a slave just banned a book written by the man it was named after.
Lori Kloehn retweeted
I very much agree with this. @POTUS deserves more credit than he's getting for his sober, strategic handling of the most dangerous foreign policy crisis since the Cold War era. apple.news/AxrA1oWjeReSFAGtX…
Lori Kloehn retweeted
Andrew Whitworth was named NFL man of the Year, but in my book, his daughter is a hero because she’s reading a book at the Super Bowl right now.
Lori Kloehn retweeted
4 years ago, my beautiful daughter Jaime was murdered by a student with an AR 15 in school. She was likely reading a book. 4 years later, the Florida legislature is working on banning books while trying to make it easier to get guns. Less books, more active shooter drills.
Lori Kloehn retweeted
Today's message warned workers that their "current benefits" are at risk if they vote yes.
Under the National Labor Relations Act, it is a violation of federal law to "threaten employees with...loss of benefits...if they support a union."
nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-w…
Lori Kloehn retweeted
Today my husband & I were physically targeted - we believe for the election work I've been doing...
Today, it escalated to in-person intimidation. Anything happens to me/my family - suspected NC peoples' info has already been given to many people, including the authorities.
Lori Kloehn retweeted
BREAKING: Starbucks just used its emergency text service to send workers in Buffalo a 3.5-minute anti-union video on the same day that their union election starts.
The company is already facing NRLB charges that it used illegal intimidation & surveillance to block the union.
Lori Kloehn retweeted
Hollywood Blvd, Saturday, 11:22 AM:
ANTI-VAXX PROTESTER: Do you see all of these homeless people around. Are they dead in the street with COVID? Hell no. Why?
HOMELESS PERSON (walking by): Because I’m vaccinated you dumb fuck.
Lori Kloehn retweeted
After WWII, the richest faced a 91% tax rate.
A one-time 91% tax on billionaires' pandemic wealth gains would raise enough to cancel all student debt and leave the average billionaire $230 million richer than before the pandemic.
Instead they pay the lowest tax rate in the U.S.
Lori Kloehn retweeted
This morning over 300 of our colleagues sent an email to management stating that we will not tolerate the Unfair Labor Practices that seek to divide us and are ready to walk out at noon.
