IBEW 520

The Texas State Association of Electrical Workers have published their report on the 88th Texas Legislative Session, which includes scoresheets for the entire legislature. When removing all of the culture war issues, the results are striking. acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?ur…

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@jt_haines @walmas Thank you for actually taking the time to ask clarifying questions and hear what we’re saying!

@IBEWLocal520 @walmas There's a *desperate* need for solidarity between the trades and the community groups. Local 520, I'm glad you're in the conversation.

@joshjordand @TheLastFarm Because the IBEW is more often on point and ahead of the curve

@TheLastFarm @IBEWLocal520 At first I was like why would somebody be saying that? and then I saw that OF COURSE it’s IBEW

@ArthusRussell @tpbhsn What’s unfortunate about trying to tell people that their strategy is deeply flawed?

@tpbhsn @IBEWLocal520 Unfortunately this is part of being in a union. I was in the carpenter's union before I operated heavy equipment so I know how great the men and women of IBEW are. I've seen that on Facebook too so it's coming from within the organization but they are probably arguing about it.

@no_luck_4_you @ArthusRussell That exactly what I’m doing actually. You’re just refusing to hear what I’m saying.

@JSaysHi You’re not hearing what I’m saying.

@IBEWLocal520 Brother, this is cop union thinking. We can't think like this.

@walmas I actually came up with it on my own, because it’s that obvious. Thanks.

This “NIMBY” talking point is one pushed by the billionaires and undermines the very concept of solidarity working class power is built on. You sound like the boss telling the striking workers he’s going to just close the factory down and move the jobs elsewhere.

@walmas @jt_haines None of them are! That’s my whole point!

@IBEWLocal520 @jt_haines Can you tell me which of the 10+ GW of proposed data centers between austin and San Antonio are “responsible”? They won’t disclose water use, they are pushing for tax abatements, they all have diesel back up generators and highly toxic fracked gas plants

@zpez Buddy, you’re clearly missing the point. We’re not on different sides here.

@ArthusRussell I’m actually arguing exactly for local democracy and community. I don’t know how you’re not understanding that, but go off.

@IBEWLocal520 Former teamster here, didn't think I would see the day when the IBEW social media bro would come out against local democracy and community action. Shame.

@scottapattison lol ok, bud

@IBEWLocal520 As a union member and staff member of a union, you are an embarrassment to the labor movement. Stop being a cuck for billionaires and large corporations.

@LouisABlanqui @jt_haines You’re making shit up, homie. My argument is that if they can’t be built responsibly, then they shouldn’t be built at all. You’d understand that if you had taken the time to listen instead of getting mad before you even ask for clarification.

@IBEWLocal520 @jt_haines Yeah but you’re arguing that they should be built. I’m here to tell you that whether they’re built ‘responsibly’ or not, building them will increase the political power of the very people screwing the working class the hardest.

@ZizekTheEchidna lol. Whatever you want to tell yourself dude. Have fun being wrong and self-righteous.

I'm a labor union organizer and have been for almost a decade. I've helped hundreds of workers form and join unions. you're under the boss' table begging for scraps despite being on the menu for the next course.

@ZizekTheEchidna Another day, another anti-union environmentalist who couldn’t strategically organize their way out of a paper bag.

another day another building trades local that would endorse their own executions if they first got the contract to build the gallows

@TheMadMoth Rude

@IBEWLocal520 Data centers do not benefit any community in this country. Fuck you.

@JasonSSmith1 It doesn’t at all. If you want to go on believing that you have no power to affect any change, then by all means, have it.

@IBEWLocal520 Your statement assumes there is something I can fight for to build “good” data centers in my community and not let them end up in areas with less clout. It also ignores state involvement which leaves people with no say.

All these people do is lie. The data center is building its own power sources. And it’s going to reuse its own water. This is just ignorance coming from people who hate technology and hate markets. They have Stone Age mindsets, and don’t understand how anything works.

@IBEWLocal520 Your mealy mouth response was both hypothetical and conceptual - it’s clear that you are full of shit and just trying to avoid having to provide an actual example of an existing data center that was built responsibly

@justin_policy @cornoisseur I’m not at all saying that they shouldn’t be concerned about how these are getting built. Many seem to be interpreting otherwise, though. No idea why.

@cornoisseur I think on the timelines that many of these data-centers are being built, people are often right to be concerned about say, massive banks of behind-the-meter gas turbines and associated externalities. Not against building, but need public coordination and infra investments

Based labor

@scottapattison You said this was a hypothetical

@IBEWLocal520 No, you did not. You explained a concept of a data center, not an existing one. That’s a big difference.