🚨UPS TEAMSTERS AUTHORIZE STRIKE BY 97%!🚨
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97%: UPS Teamsters strike vote authorization in 2023
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In the medium and long term this is a bad decision by & inquirer.com/politics/clout Currently only run in races where there are guaranteed spots for minority parties. This kind of action may make them consider running against Dems in other races.
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NEW: A study found that overdoses double in communities after cops seize illicit opioids, providing the first empirical evidence that drug busts are associated with a spike in ODs. This is significant. Let’s unpack.
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Since Rhode Island officials felt entitled to just about everything in Philly, I’m formally lodging this list of rude and absurd demands for Rhode Island officials on behalf of Philadelphians. You have three hours to fulfill all requirements.
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Here in the beautiful, community-led Ile Ife Park with a powerful cross-section of Philadelphians who demand a safer, stronger, more just city where working families in every neighborhood thrive.
We made history four years ago and we’re ready to do it again. Let’s go!
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has passed a Resolution on the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway unanimously!
It was introduced today, and the vote wasn't supposed to happen until the fall. Our brave Councilmembers took it up and voted anyways.
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Working at Starbucks is great because once every 6 months your district manager will visit your store, watch you struggle understaffed to manage a line out the door, and respond by doing something extremely helpful like taking away your aux cord
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it’s a union-driven scam to prop up a failing roadway, is what it is. drivers have rights & deserve roadway choice. DOT monopoly must end and its budget reworked to support charter highways, travel vouchers, and cybercommutes
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The I-95 rebuild is impressive. It shows what we can do when we make something a priority.
On a completely unrelated note, Philadelphia schoolchildren are going to schools which have $5 billion of immediate repairs needed, including to remediate asbestos.
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The I-95 rebuild is impressive. It shows what we can do when we make something a priority.
On a completely unrelated note, Philadelphia schoolchildren are going to schools which have $5 billion of immediate repairs needed, including to remediate asbestos.
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If you quit your job because your employer made your working conditions literally life threatening it takes unemployment at least 12 weeks to process the claim because they to verify it with the SAME EMPLOYER WHO MADE YOUR JOB LIFE THREATENING
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This morning domestic workers in Philly gathered to demand that the rights they won in the 2019 Philadelphia #DomesticWorkersBillofRights be respected and enforced.
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"Portland is a city of tenants, and its voters have resoundingly rejected the efforts of landlords to raise rents as much as they want. Tonight’s result shows that tenants have seen rent control improve their lives, and it is not going anywhere."
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"Nobody likes their job. Maybe they do. They're lying." - Nikola Jokic
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Tomorrow is International Domestic Workers Day! I will be joining domestic workers, City Council colleagues, and labor leaders in Rittenhouse Square to highlight the need for enforcement of Philly's labor laws.
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Really starting to feel like we’re living in a continuous loop of Dan Delillo’s White Noise, with one toxic (not necessarily airborne) event starting before the last one has even left
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A boil water advisory is in effect for parts of West Philadelphia after a pumping station failed Sunday afternoon.
phillytrib.com/news/local_new
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Honored to speak at yesterday’s #savechinatown rally where more than 3,000 gathered and marched to protest the proposed arena.
Nearly 50 yrs since my parents stood against the construction of the Vine St Expressway, which tore the neighborhood in two, it’s now our turn.
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Between the wildfires and I-95 blowing up we low key had a code orange level of ozone today, just another day living in the slowly unfolding climate catastrophe
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Build the Roosevelt Blvd subway, move away from dangerous fossil fuels, renew our crumbling infrastructure, Green New Deal now
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A truck fire and partial road collapse have closed Interstate 95 in both directions in Northeast Philadelphia. I-95 is closed between Cottman and Academy Roads, according to state transportation alerts.
Get live updates on this developing story.
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Anti-Chinatown propagandists: Nobody will come to the Save Chinatown March
Reality: City Hall North Apron so packed they had to move the stage to fit the crowd
#NoArenaInChinatown #SaveChinatown #Philadelphia #Chinatown #PhillyChinatown
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Replying to @AnlinWang and @harrisonfinberg
I mean twitter.com/JesseBunch_/st…
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For those who want Philly's Chinatown to continue to exist, come out to 10th and Vine today at 11am to send City Hall a message!
#NoArenaInChinatown #SaveChinatown #PhillyChinatown
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Yes “lobbying “ is protected but it’s strange and wrong to make this argument when one side has spent an insane amount of money and had to pay fines for Ethics Board violations
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This is the other weird thing, "Stop lobbying!" Lobbying is a constitutional right. Every single major business and institution in the city lobbies the city every day. So do private citizens. There's no picking and choosing of who gets to lobby.
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what a shocking way to frame the story / put a thumb on the scale, when the city will continue to be unable to adequately fund its schools, rec centers, pools, streets, libraries, and so many other basic public services that Philadelphians should be able to rely on
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“We are putting millions back into the pockets of mega-corporations,” @CouncilmemberJG said. “This budget is a slap in the face to our working-class Black and brown residents who begged City Hall for…clean, green, and safe blocks.”
inquirer.com/politics/phila
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Feeling good about not voting for KGR and Thomas hbu
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Philadelphia City Council members gave initial approval Thursday to a more than $6.2 billion budget deal in which lawmakers approved tax cuts for businesses and workers beyond what the mayor had proposed.
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“We are putting millions back into the pockets of mega-corporations,” said. “This budget is a slap in the face to our working-class Black and brown residents who begged City Hall for…clean, green, and safe blocks.”
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And unsafe air is nothing new. Philly kids are 3x as likely to have asthma, and Black Philly kids are 5x as likely.
We live near polluting power plants, noxious highways, leaking gas infrastructure, and poisonous incinerators. We work in sweltering UPS trucks and toxic schools.
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Philly workers are building power to win safe working conditions.
Teamsters at UPS are negotiating a contract that will include health and safety measures like air conditioned vehicles. They’ll strike if they have to.
Sign the pledge to back them:
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Workers and communities are on the front lines of the climate crisis. The air quality in Philly is “hazardous,” yet students and teachers were in school yesterday, and workers around the city are outside in dangerous conditions, without protection. Unhoused people are exposed.
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What is doing to protect students & staff from toxic smoke that's blanketing Philly? Corsi-Rosenthal air filters protect from wildfire smoke + pollutants, asthma triggers & allergens, at a low cost. Join us to demand safe air for schools: forms.gle/F4rw6xYQzjwhs1
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The climate crisis is a labor issue. Climate catastrophes impact workers, and disproportionately affect frontline, essential workers.
Here's a thread of what's happening to workers in this current wildfire emergency, and how they're organizing around it 🧵
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In this article I am "confused, but also pleasantly surprised" to see boob art in South Philly
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I had the breast time talking to Rose Luardo, the South Philly artist behind "Captain Jesse G’s Boob Garden," the pop-up guerilla art installation that's lasted more than a week in an empty lot on Washington Avenue.
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UPDATE: has suspended paving and trash collection due to the ongoing air quality emergency. If the air quality improves later today, trash may be collected.
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Imagine living next to the Chester incinerator, leaky gas infrastructure, a highway, or going to school with asbestos or mold. The smoke will be gone soon but poor air quality is a fact of life for many in Philly.
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“We have constant reminders that we are subject to weather events,” he said. “It’s a call to action to help raise the bar of health.”
inquirer.com/health/philade
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Check out this almost unbelievable time-lapse of wildfire smoke consuming the World Trade Center and the New York City skyline.
Those vulnerable to poor air quality, including seniors and young children, should limit time outdoors if possible.
More: AirNow.gov
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This is a very troubling trend. The City should be empowering community gatherings, not preventing them!
If you live in West and Southwest and have had a block party permit denied, please call my office at 215-686-0460. We’ll do what we can to help!
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