Jonah Furman (@JonahFurman) / X

Jonah Furman

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Jonah Furman

@JonahFurman

Fighting for economic and social justice with @UAW. formerly of @labornotes, @berniesanders, @unitedteamsters & more. married @nausjcaa

Joined October 2019

Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Apr 20, 2021
Chauvin is the 7th on-duty cop to be convicted of murder since 2005, out of around 15,000 police killings in that time.
Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Mar 18, 2022
I tried the online therapy “better health” and ended up paying almost $700 and having a single “therapy” session that was the worst therapy experience of my life (I have had many). Now I keep getting ads for them, so this is me doing my part to forewarn others. Bad system!
Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Nov 18, 2021
There it is. The Deere contract is ratified, and the strike is over. 10,000 UAW members turned down two contracts, killed a new tier, doubled their raises, improved pensions, won back COLA, and showed the country that you can still strike and win big. What a righteous fight.
Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Nov 23, 2021
Wow. Deere announced today that their salaried employees will be getting an across-the-board 8% wage increase. This is what people mean when they say unions hold the line for the whole working class -- when strikers win against corporate America, everybody reaps the benefits.
Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Oct 15, 2021
Long thread, but important: John Deere workers have reached out to me frustrated about media repeating company talking points that workers make 60-70k a year. One who's been there over a decade showed me what they made in 2020: Under $40k. So let’s talk about wages at John Deere.
Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Sep 13, 2022
I really feel like people are not appreciating that Warren Buffet and his friends are shutting down the supply chain to force Congress to mandate 125,000 railroad workers go to work with no weekends or sick leave.
Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Mar 19, 2020
NYC Amazon workers walk off the job after a COVID case is discovered at the warehouse. This is how thousands fewer people get infected, this is solidarity.
Amazonians United New York City
@NYCAmazonians
Mar 19, 2020
Why lie @amazon? You canceled 9:00pm but had 10:15pm come to work! We have video. We saw it! We literally pulled people out of the warehouse for their safety and to keep you from risking the safety of our communities for your profits! #WorldWideHazardPay theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Oct 14, 2021
John Deere strikers in Ottumwa, UAW Local 74, successfully convince a freight driver not to cross the picket line
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Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Nov 3, 2021
Over 22,000 US union members are now on strike: 10k @ Deere 3k @ Columbia U 2k @ Buffalo’s Mercy hospital 1.4k @ Kellogg’s 1.1k AL miners 1k WV hospital workers 800 Scranton educators 700 MA nurses 700 Kaiser engineers 500 OH steelworkers 450 WV steelworkers 300 NY Machinists
Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Oct 15, 2021
Day 1: A non-union salaried worker just crashed a tractor inside the plant. Whoops!
Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Dec 2, 2022
From a railroad worker in Ohio this morning
Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Apr 1, 2022
1) holy shit there's a union at Amazon 2) now is a time to listen and learn from what these workers pulled off, not just point at it and say it validates your prior take 3) the union movement needs to be trying many many many more things 4) gear up for an epic contract fight
Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Nov 11, 2021
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The Hill
@thehill
Nov 10, 2021
President Biden: “I’m going to create good-paying union jobs. Not $12 an hour, not $15 an hour, but $45 an hour and up with good benefits, so you can raise a family on and build the middle class out.” hill.cm/EJfbNmB
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Jonah Furman
@JonahFurman
Aug 12, 2020
This is a type of capital strike. A court ordered Uber to recognize its drivers as employees (which confers certain basic rights), so Uber says they’re going to shut down. We need economic democracy, not corporations exerting pressure on the state to extract concessions.
NBC Bay Area
@nbcbayarea
Aug 12, 2020
#BREAKING Uber CEO says the company will likely shut down temporarily if a court decides to classify drivers as employees. nbcbay.com/B9luepE