Working Families Party

We are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people to transform America. Text GO to 30403 to join.

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2024-08-18 23:00:00

Unions raise wages for ALL workers, by the way.
In the 10 states with the strongest union density in 2020, the average median weekly wages were $1,121.70 — that’s almost $180 more a week than workers in the states with the lowest union densities.

2024-08-18 01:00:00

Gentle parenting rich CEOs:
I KNOW you want another yacht, but don't you think everyone else deserves some things too? Of course you worked very hard...And don't you think it would be upsetting if you worked very hard but couldn't afford anything? Uh huh that's how workers feel.

2024-08-14 23:00:03

A paycheck should mean access to nutritious food, a good education, quality healthcare, and a safe place to call home.
If it’s not paying enough to afford that, then it’s not paying enough.

2024-08-14 01:00:01

Hate your job? Unionize.
Love your job? Unionize.

2024-08-13 00:07:00

We believe the people should govern. Not the special interests. Not the rich and powerful. Not the corporations. The people.

2024-08-11 23:00:00

Everyone deserves a living wage.
That means janitors, and fast food workers, and teachers, and delivery drivers, and nurses, and rideshare drivers. It means everyone.

2024-08-07 01:22:18

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2024-08-04 00:00:03

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2024-07-30 23:00:06

Yessssssssssssss.
14,000 Disneyland workers just won an instant 20% pay bump and more. This is after threatening what would have been the first walkout at Disneyland Resort in 40 years.
Unions work. Deciding to speak as one voice for a better contract with your coworkers works. Organize. It starts with one conversation.
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2024-07-30 00:00:01

Access to healthcare should not be tied to your ability to find and keep a job.
Access to healthcare should not be tied to your ability to produce profit.

2024-07-28 23:00:05

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2024-07-19 01:00:04

If billionaires can afford to spend millions a MONTH until election day, they can afford to pay higher taxes to fund the communities of workers whose labor creates that wealth.
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2024-07-12 00:00:03

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2024-07-11 23:00:05

“Unskilled labor” is a myth created to justify paying poverty wages while billionaire CEOs sail away on their yachts.

2024-07-07 23:00:05

yes
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2024-07-02 23:00:04

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2024-06-28 00:00:04

Gen Z is paying 31% more for housing than their counterparts did 10 years ago, adjusting for inflation. They're expected to spend an average $145,000 on rent by the time they turn 30.
Everyone is struggling except those at the top. It doesn't have to be this way, and it really really shouldn't be.
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2024-06-22 23:00:03

Something is broken here.
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2024-06-19 23:00:01

When workers unionize, it lifts up ALL workers.
On average, the 17 states with the highest union densities have median annual incomes $6,000 higher than the national average.

2024-06-18 23:00:03

This is so much money from closing just ONE loophole.
Tax the rich and use the funds to care for our communities.
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2024-06-18 00:00:00

“No one wants to work anymore!!!”
As of February, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the U.S. is $1,217/month. To comfortably afford that, you need to make at least $23.40/hr.
It’s not a worker shortage, it’s a shortage of wages we can actually live on.

2024-06-17 01:00:01

Having one full time job should be enough to pay for space to live, for food to eat, and for healthcare to keep your body going. Otherwise, what’s the point?

2024-06-17 00:00:01

Just so you know….
On average, the states with the highest union densities have state minimum wages that are 19% higher than the national average and 40% higher than states with low union density.

2024-06-16 01:00:03

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2024-06-14 01:00:03

If you made $10,000 every day, since the day the Declaration of Independence was signed, you would still not have a billion dollars. He wants that times fifty.
Less astronomical CEO pay, more distributing the profits of labor to ALL workers.
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2024-06-12 00:00:01

The U.S. is the only industrialized nation that doesn’t require employers to give their workers paid family leave.
The ONLY.

2024-06-11 23:00:04

Come on, just one more tax cut. One more tax cut, bro. Bro fr just one more tax cut, it’ll trickle down this time fr I swear it’ll trickle down please bro
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2024-06-11 00:00:02

If your employer has a written policy that forbids you from discussing your pay with coworkers, you can report them to the National Labor Relations Board.
Because that’s illegal.

2024-06-09 00:00:01

If your business can’t run without paying workers poverty wages, then you don’t have an acceptable business model.

2024-06-02 00:00:00

If we don’t fight, we can’t win.
Never stop fighting.

2024-05-25 23:00:00

Yes, the cashier on their feet full-time should be able to afford rent, groceries, and healthcare with their paycheck.

2024-05-13 23:00:02

This isn’t what we meant when we said “medical debt shouldn't exist"
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2024-05-12 23:00:14

leaving this here
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2024-05-12 00:00:03

Basically, this is unionizing.
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2024-05-02 23:00:06

Some leaders legislate to protect working families. Others legislate to protect corporate profits.
The Louisiana House of Representatives voted 61-37 to REPEAL a child labor law requiring employers to give minors who work more than 5 hours a meal break.
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2024-04-30 22:07:13

Strong unions make a difference.
Together, these autoworkers won:
- More than 25% raises over the next four years, including a 10% raise after the deal is ratified
- End to wage tiers
- Cost of living adjustments
- Profit sharing for the first time in Daimler history.
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2024-04-22 00:00:04

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2024-04-21 23:00:05

Reason #1: They are the most pro-union generation
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2024-04-20 23:11:30

This bill would make it so businesses are no longer required to give underage workers meal breaks if they work for at least 5 hours.
The GOP representative carrying this bill owns several Smoothie King franchises in Louisiana.
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2024-04-19 00:00:07

There are people with extreme wealth and power who want us blaming our fellow workers instead of banding together to create change.
Let’s not fall for their divide and conquer tactics. We can build working class power and solidarity everywhere.

2024-04-18 23:00:10

Stop glamorizing “the Grind”
- pits workers against each other
- rewards are basically just pinky promises from management
And start glamorizing “Organizing a union”
- builds worker solidarity and community
- rewards are in writing and legally binding

2024-04-16 23:00:05

Ron DeSantis quietly signed a new law that bans local governments from:
- Passing heat safety measures for workers, like water breaks and shade.
- Raising contractors' wages above the state minimum.
- Laws making employers give workers prior notice of their schedules.
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/its-unjust-florida-gov-desantis-signs-bill-banning-local-heat-safety-and-wage-laws-36620363
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2024-04-15 00:00:00

It doesn’t matter what the job is.
Every job that you choose to give your full time labor to should pay enough to afford a comfortable life.

2024-04-14 00:00:23

Over HALF of recent inflation is just from corporate greed.
Since 2021, labor costs have stabilized and supply chain issues have eased.
But prices haven’t gone down, and worker pay hasn't kept up. Because CEOs want to keep pocketing the profit.
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2024-04-12 23:00:04

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2024-04-10 23:00:07

they’re really trying to gaslight us into not wanting to retire now huh
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2024-04-10 00:00:06

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2024-04-09 23:00:06

It costs zero dollars to show solidarity with your fellow workers instead of siding with billionaires.

2024-04-05 01:00:07

Oh but we thought they were supposed to be “self-made”
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2024-04-05 00:00:01

If all workers being paid enough to live comfortable lives means that a CEO can only afford ONE yacht instead of three........
Well that’s a sacrifice we’re willing to make.

2024-04-03 23:00:06

The CEO of Barnes and Noble personally came in to try and convince workers not to unionize at the nation’s largest store in New York.
Instead, they voted 76-2 in favor of forming a union.
Workers know they’re worth more, and that unionizing can close the gap between what they’re really worth and what they’re getting — whether the CEO likes it or not
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2024-04-03 00:00:15

That $3 million could and should have just gone to workers.
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2024-04-02 23:00:06

There are two Americas.
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2024-04-01 23:00:02

Every single person should be able to live a life that doesn't center worrying about money and how to obtain basic necessities for living life.

2024-03-29 01:00:07

yessssssss
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2024-03-28 23:00:05

The promise was that a life of hard work would be rewarded with years of rest.
But the number of working people aged 65+ has nearly doubled since 1987.
Retirement shouldn’t be a luxury for the rich. Bad policy decisions contributed to this crisis. Now good policy must help.
https://www.businessinsider.com/retirement-crisis-social-security-pensions-student-loan-debt-2024-3
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2024-03-28 01:00:03

If you were wondering if organizing a union would be worth it:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/union-households-tend-over-100-175801469.html
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2024-03-28 00:00:05

If workers fighting for fair wages and treatment is an “attack” on your economic model….
….that sure says a lot about your economic model.
https://www.al.com/business/2024/01/kay-ivey-says-alabamas-economic-model-is-under-attack-with-auto-union-push.html
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2024-03-22 00:00:06

To get this straight:
Republicans want to loosen child labor laws AND raise the retirement age.
So they want us working from adolescence to old age, and they’ll refuse to pay us a living wage the whole time. Got it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-budget-raise-age-retirement-social-security-medicare-rcna144341
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2024-03-20 23:00:03

Here’s a quick flow chart for how things should work:
If a person is hungry → feed them
If a person needs shelter → house them
If a person is sick → give them healthcare
No ifs, ands, or buts. Everyone should get these things.

2024-03-17 23:00:01

When elites raged against the creation of a minimum wage, President Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
Sounds familiar.

2024-03-15 00:00:04

“Is the housing crisis bad?” article asks after describing nightmare housing market.
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2024-03-12 23:00:01

There are people in power who don’t want you to dream big.
Who don’t want you to think outside of the system they’ve built.
Who don’t want you to learn. To organize. To build power.
Let’s do it anyway.

2024-03-11 00:00:35

What if (hear me out)
We used our abundant resources to actually care for each other and make life better for everyone instead of letting a handful of rich people decide that everything should go toward making them even richer.

2024-03-10 23:00:25

If your business relies on underpaying and exploiting your workers, your business shouldn’t exist.
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2024-03-10 00:00:17

More than 4,000 janitors went on strike Monday.
Nearly 1,000 nursing home workers went on strike Tuesday.
And now around 3,700 public school teachers and hourly workers say they'll strike March 11.
Coordinated strike activity. Across multiple unions. You love to see it 🥹
https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/03/04/thousands-of-twin-cities-janitors-and-nursing-home-workers-launch-strikes/
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2024-03-09 01:00:02

When you learn that on average, workers covered by a union contract earn 13.5% more in wages than peers with similar education and experience in a comparative non-unionized workplace:
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2024-03-08 01:00:53

Pizza Hut workers in Los Angeles are on a 3 day strike after rampant wage theft by management, including denying meal breaks, overtime and paid sick leave.
Workers have filed a complaint with the CA Labor Commissioner’s Office seeking more than $80,000 in back pay and penalties.
https://www.dailynews.com/2024/03/06/pizza-hut-workers-at-la-store-strike-over-alleged-wage-theft/
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2024-03-08 00:00:05

As of March 7th, at least 76 members of Congress have called for a permanent ceasefire.
It's time for meaningful, urgent action to save lives. Go to https://wfpus.org/callceasefire to contact your member of Congress urging them to back a ceasefire.
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2024-03-06 02:00:04

This is why voting at the state and local level is important.
If we can get people in power who understand and care about working people’s problems, we can make policy like this more common.
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2024-03-06 01:00:05

Everyone deserves a wage they can live on.
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2024-03-03 00:00:03

The tide is turning.
Talk to your coworkers about forming a union.
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2024-02-29 02:00:33

Last year, the Tennessee GOP expelled two lawmakers for standing with protestors after a school shooting left six people dead. But after massive public outrage and action, they were reinstated.
Now those GOP lawmakers want to make sure it won't happen again. This isn't democracy.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/012/298/252/038/548/original/64405c0e8b0d7fb2.jpeg

2024-02-27 00:00:39

First billionaires hike prices to drive up already-record profits, to the point that more and more Americans can barely make ends meet. Now they aim to criminalize the houseless, feeding more people into the FOR-PROFIT prison system. Where is the morality?
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2024-02-25 01:00:10

This is your regular reminder that policy that helps people is possible.
State and local governments from Louisiana to Illinois are wiping out medical debt for struggling families.
Let's get more leaders willing to step up for the people like this.
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/02/22/governments-can-erase-your-medical-debt-for-pennies-on-the-dollar-and-some-are/
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2024-02-25 00:00:21

International worker solidarity is a beautiful — and POWERFUL — thing. Workers refusing to be pitted against one another is how we can defeat corporate tyranny.
https://uaw.org/uaw-establishes-solidarity-project-to-support-mexican-autoworkers/
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2024-02-24 00:00:45

BIG: California State University students have voted to form the LARGEST union of undergraduate workers in the country.
The union will represent 20,000 undergraduate student workers across 23 campuses.
It was a landslide victory: 97% of voters chose to unionize.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/california-state-university-undergrad-workers-vote-to-unionize
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2024-02-22 02:00:05

hey
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2024-02-22 01:00:34

Billionaires and the politicians they buy want you to feel helpless against the system they’ve built that enriches only themselves.
But anything that has been built can be dismantled. It just takes time, will, and organizing.

2024-02-22 00:00:54

Them: “The market will regulate itself.”
The market:
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/972/191/608/109/544/original/2f8e4bdc9db771a7.jpeg

2024-02-21 00:00:18

Dystopian. Americans are forced to spend $4,000 more per person on health expenditures than those in any other comparable, wealthy nation.
Healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
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2024-02-19 01:00:03

People who think that low-wage workers are asking for too much need to understand that the goal posts have moved.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/955/437/215/138/789/original/06f639451ba10d41.jpeg

2024-02-17 21:00:43

Reminder:
It’s not rude to discuss your wages with coworkers. You have a legal right to do that. Managers convinced people it was rude so workers wouldn’t organize.

2024-02-14 01:00:56

WIN: Michigan has officially become the first state in nearly 60 years to repeal repealed its anti-union right-to-work law
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2024-02-07 00:00:13

Young people can't afford to live, and their parents can't afford to retire.
Meanwhile, billionaires just get richer. In 2023, Elon Musk saw his massive fortune rise another $98 billion.
Our system needs to change to benefit more than just the richest among us.
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2024-02-06 00:00:01

Unions make sure rising profits translate to increasing workers’ wages and benefits, instead of only enriching the CEOs and shareholders.
And that’s how it should be.

2024-02-05 01:00:02

U.S. billionaires are 46% richer now than they were in 2020.
America is the richest nation in the world in terms of gross domestic product.
But 37.9 million Americans live in poverty. That’s 11.5% of the entire population.
Who is the system working for?

2024-01-29 01:00:25

Billionaires are a policy failure.
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2024-01-25 01:00:11

Costco had a reputation of being good to its employees.
Workers say the culture has changed to favor the "needs of the business" over the needs of the workers who make it run.
Solidarity with the group of 238 workers at a Virginia Costco who are set to join the Teamsters.
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2024-01-25 00:00:22

Every single worker should have paid sick leave. Full stop.

2024-01-21 02:00:33

The dollars of young people today have 86% less purchasing power than those of Baby Boomers when they were in their 20s.
Are young people lazy, or have corporations raised prices while keeping worker wages stagnant?
source: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/comparing-the-costs-of-generations.html

2024-01-21 00:00:31

What if we defined "security" as being able to put food on the table?
As safe and abundant housing for all?
As access to healthcare?
What would investing in “national security” look like then?

2024-01-20 00:00:27

It should not be radical to say that we should be using our abundant resources to care for people instead of pooling it all at the top.

2024-01-10 00:00:45

If you’re wondering what stage of capitalism we’re at, it’s the “Child Labor is a Good Thing Actually” stage.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/728/711/600/145/173/original/e72f551e5e26182d.jpeg

2024-01-08 01:00:10

Not working until the day you die shouldn’t be a luxury.

2024-01-08 00:00:03

Yes please
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2024-01-07 02:00:07

Prediction:
More strikes.
More unions.
More worker wins.
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2023-12-27 00:00:29

When are we going to stop letting billionaires tell us that workers asking to be paid enough to literally just survive are the reason prices are higher…..
…..when the whole reason workers are striking for better pay is because prices were already higher than wages.

2023-12-27 00:00:00

“Unskilled” labor is a myth created to justify paying people poverty wages.
Low wage workers are not unskilled, they’re just underpaid.

2023-12-25 18:01:00

If you can’t afford the basics of survival (food, housing, water, healthcare) on minimum wage, then it shouldn’t be the minimum wage. It's that simple.