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Hector J Figueroa
@figue32bj
Boricua Dad. SEIU 32BJ Pres. Jackson Hts/Queens resident. Hoping one day to ride a Tardis. Personal account. Opinions my own. Retweets not always = endorsement.
Up and down the East CoastJoined August 2013
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Hector J Figueroa
@figue32bj
Not our view of the world. Thanks for engaging.
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Vote Commey
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It starts with personal responsibility, if workers are complaining that they are not making enough money it's their responsibility to increase their income. Small business owners have already made adjustments and sacrifices by becoming employers instead of remaining employees.
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Hector J Figueroa
@figue32bj
Or for small business owners to adjust & pursue a high road perhaps with help from government as they pay better. It’s a minimum wage. Workers can barely make it in NY with $15. NY DOL has data on this. Why workers & not business should adjust? We’ll keep organizing for good jobs
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Vote Commey
@VoteCommey
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Rising rents are a factor and property taxes are part of that problem, and a $15 minimum wage increases power of national chains at the expense of small businesses. As for keeping workers poor a logical solution for low wage workers is to pursue higher paying jobs.
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Cristina Cabrera
@crismcabrera
When
@AOC
asked asylum seeker Yazmin Juarez if she’d witnessed a culture of cruelty at the ICE facility, Juarez said that an agent had told her, “You know, this country is for Americans, Trump is my president, and we can take your little girl away from you and lock you in jail.”
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Talking Points Memo
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Migrant Mother Testifies On ICE Detention: ‘I Watched My Baby Die Slowly And Painfully’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/migrant-m
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Steven Greenhouse
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UNION MEMBERSHIP BOOSTS POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE -- "Union members, particularly those with less formal education ... are significantly more politically knowledgable than their non-union counterparts," writes political scientist David MacDonald of Florida State
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Union Membership Boosts Political Knowledge
For less-educated Americans, belonging to a labor union is a good way of increasing one's understanding of the world of politics.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
@TheRaDR
“When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong them. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as a citizen; you shall love the stranger as yourself...” (Lev. 19:33-34) Everyone: Stay safe. If you’re safe, protect those who aren’t.
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Celebritypreneur
@tvreporterchic
ICE raids in 10 cities including San Francisco to begin Sunday, report says abc7ne.ws/2xKWC3a
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Hector J Figueroa
@figue32bj
Making these jobs good paying union jobs, building homes for workers w/o displacing others, addressing subway delays & congestion remain a challenge. Past HQ2 debates we must work on those issues, find money & ways for growth to benefit working families, not just try to stop it.
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Michael Kink
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Google, Facebook, Uber, and Amazon — yes, Amazon — accelerate NYC expansions, adding jobs with NO public subsidies or tax giveaways wsj.com/articles/new-y
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Hector J Figueroa
@figue32bj
Another possible jobs program that can benefit many people in places where economic growth & good union jobs are needed: systematic reforestation and maintenance of forests. Not all we need to do. Keeping fossil fuels on the ground is key. But there are plenty others.
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markfischetti
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Planting random trees is a nice idea, but smartly planting millions of the right types of trees in the right types of soils worldwide could soak up 2/3 of the CO2 we've already emitted bit.ly/2YGzxe1
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Hector J Figueroa
@figue32bj
Discussing DHS reorganization, creation of a new agency(ies) to protect human rights & constitutional rights in our country is long overdue. Legitimate issue. We can’t ignore DHS or ICE abuses. TY for pushing. Immigrant rights, human rights, constitutional rights=worker rights.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
It’s really not that radical. When DHS was 1st formed by Bush 17 years ago, many members of Congress were concerned - incl GOP - that we were setting up a ticking time bomb for civil liberties erosion & abuse of power. Discussing reorganization shouldn’t be out of the question. twitter.com/CBSNews/status…
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Hector J Figueroa
@figue32bj
It’s been happening from competition of national chains, online competition, rising retail rents. Minimum wage increases ramp up effective demand creating a job multiplier in our communities. How that fuels local businesses is what we need to figure out, not keep workers poor.
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Vote Commey
@VoteCommey
In addition to the loss of over a million jobs, what isn't being discussed is how many small businesses would crumble as has and is happening in NYC. twitter.com/figue32bj/stat…
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Hector J Figueroa
@figue32bj
We need $15 min wage. Income inequality has grown during economic expansion. Unions must scale up organizing before it ends. Build power, fight/win higher wages & a GND. Oppose ‘shared sacrifice’, austerity/cuts to social programs, when recession hits.
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CBO report shows broad benefits from higher minimum wage
This afternoon, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report assessing the economic impact of raising the minimum wage to $15 in 2025 in six steps (this is a similar policy to the Raise the...
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Josh Eidelson
@josheidelson
SEIU USWW prez & Uber driver write "in addition 2 supporting AB5, we are demanding the right to a union"& that tech,labor,&pols should "come together &innovate through idea-sharing &conversations about how we can stand w/gig workers 2 chart a path forward" newsweek.com/uber-ab5-gig-e
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Josh Eidelson
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In May, California’s state assembly passed A.B. 5, legislation that, if approved by the state senate and Governor Newsom, would codify the 2018 Dynamex ruling’s broad definition of an employee and apply it, with exceptions, to a wide swathe of state laws bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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Justice Democrats
@justicedems
"Part of the reason the media covers the congressional freshwomen so much is that they are good at addressing subjects of national interest in dramatic and compelling ways, like politicians are supposed to."
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The Freshman Democratic Women Get So Much Attention Because They Do Good Things That Democrats Like
AOC and company's role in Monday's headline-making border trip should remind their more-senior haters what celebrity can do for the party.
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Daniel Gross
@dgorganize
Hell yes. Things are going well and not building *traditional* unions is, to borrow a phrase, a feature, not a bug 😊.
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Amr Gaber
@amrtgaber
Building a union means creating a community with real power to challenge the decisions of our billion dollar companies. You better believe they will fight tooth and nail to oppose us every single step of the way. Freedom, as they say, is not free. 1/5
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