#Workers

Heath Mayo

HeathMayo

The dirty secret of Trumpism is that it doesn’t actually champion working-class Americans or their values—it betrays them. It’s nothing but empty “tough guy” bravado & no results. There’s no

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

I've just spent a couple of hours at the local foodbank, meeting people who, in some cases, would literally starve without it. On the other side of the recreation ground,

Steve Scalise

SteveScalise

The Payroll Protection Program will run out of money in hours—leaving businesses unable to access this lifeline.This was 100% avoidable.But Schumer & Pelosi think their unrelated partisan demands are more

Patricia Cohen

PatcohenNYT

In just three weeks, more than 16 million U.S. workers have lost their jobs — more losses than the most recent recession produced over two years.https://nyti.ms/2x6yprJ It’s as if “the

Alpha Echo Hotel

aehibbins

I've seen a lot of inaccurate reporting in the media of how the NHS health surcharge works, so here's an explainer as someone who's actually had to pay it (THREAD):

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brandee_golfs

I’m so pissed off at these “protestors!” Our healthcare workers put their lives on the line every minute of every day! Those so-called protestors need to be cuffed and locked

alex

aeIitas

also there’s this fear of any physical labor in general and also in leftist circles... ik i just antagonized it but physical labor doesn’t actually have 2 be tht http://bad.like

Sentona 𓅃

sentona97

Why do all metallurgy gods have a limp?Hephaestos, an ancient Greek god of metallurgy and blacksmithing, was born ugly and his mother Hera threw him from the Olympus after which

Hex Morgan M.D.

sammideedub

When I graduated from high school a lot of my friends went to work in the oil patch. They started with 6-figure jobs immediately after grade 12. Meanwhile, I started

Zoe

zoebracken

This is why unlike a lot of the Twitter mob I’m not getting irate about people in my area or on my social media travelling about, cos you never actually

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Jim Justice's 2016 campaign for Governor of West Virginia made a simple pitch: Justice is the richest man in WV, a billionaire, and therefore he is better than everyone else

Ingrid M

iMusing

“casual work is work that they can choose not to accept” says Tim James, executive GM of the Menzies Research Centre, demonstrating exactly no grasp of the topic to hand

Elad Nehorai

PopChassid

THREAD.People are saying this is not the time for politics. This is both naive and deeply dangerous.Politics right now is why we’ll be stuck in our homes far longer than

Debra M Haak

DebraMHaak

Tl;dr Repealing prostitution specific criminal laws will not make sex work safe and the questions ought to be - whether, where, and for whom it might be made safe enough,

Katherine Goldstein

KGeee

Lately I've been fantasizing about what workplace and public policies would totally be the norm by now if men were forced to be primarily responsible for virtual school. Let's start

Sam Vinograd

sam_vinograd

21,000 health care workers have come to New York from out of state to help fight coronavirus.As @NYGovCuomo said " God bless America ... We will return the favor." "It