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Eric Blanc
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Eric Blanc
@_ericblanc
assistant professor of labor studies RU; @organizeworkers, @ruaaup; my Substack is laborpolitics.com
Joined September 2018
- Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
- There hasn't actually been a major shift of young people to the right — this election mostly reflects a turnout collapse of young Democratic voters When you account for turnout, Trump in '24 barely got a higher % of youth than when he lost last time
- .@AOC electrifying a thousand federal workers and allies at tonight’s Save Our Services rally in NYC
- Insanely amazing news Whole Foods went completely scorched earth — full on intimidation, firing a worker leader, depriving the whole store of a raise, etc — and still the workers voted for a union anyways Working-class heroesfirst Whole Foods Union 👍
- A friendly reminder: US factory jobs only became synonymous with middle-class prosperity because of mass unionization Trump's mirage of a re-industrialized America covers up this central fact
- FYI the Dems haven't yet confirmed Biden's last NLRB nomination — even though this would maintain a Democratic Board through late 2026
- BREAKING: French dock workers in Fos-sur-Mer refused today to load machine gun ammo destined for Israel's army
- KEEP UP THE PRESSURE, IT'S WORKING TAX THE RICH🚨BREAKING: Kathy Hochul is considering raising corporate taxes to help fund Zohran Mamdani’s agenda.
- Zohran ran up crazy numbers with non-white young people (18-29 year olds): Black youth: Mamdani 84% Latino youth: Mamdani 86% White youth: Mamdani 66%
- The vibes in NYC are extremely good today
- Zohran: “The most effective tool for fighting income inequality is union density. When we call New York City a union town, it’s time to actually have a mayor that stands up for unions and their members” 🔥🔥🔥.@ZohranKMamdani is asked about differences he has with the Democratic party as a whole as a Democratic Socialist — despite his and Hochul’s mantra that the Dems are a “big tent party.”
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