Ricardo Ochoa 🌹✊🗽

FYI, @nadia_lathan, the Western Electrical Contractors Association does NOT represent "non-union electrical workers" and is NOT a "labor group." It represents anti-union electrical contractors (a.k.a. the bosses). A clue is their name ("Contractors Association") Cc: @vosdscott

@katewillett A hit dog will holler...

The thing that shocked me most about this piece is that it’s written by Groundwork’s National Co-Chair. This isn’t the opinion of just some guy, it’s the opinion guiding all of the GW leadership in our chapter. Utterly authoritarian attitude towards the political minority.,

.@AOC responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together. And I think that the discourse around 'Everyone, let's all be like billionaires and opt out of our taxes,' I don't find it an inspiring message."

@KevinSabellico Wait until you learn that part of the island of Alameda (where the City of Alameda is located) is within the borders of the City and County of San Francisco...

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@Ergoat Now you're just making things up. Taft-Hartley does zero to prohibit non-union wildcat strikes.

You missed the followup question after the low union density reply: "So, where does the union leadership stand on repealing Taft-Hartley, as to 'legally' support nonunion wildcat strikes which would drastically rebuild union density & solidarity?" "...There's a No Kings protest."

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Nah, no chip on my shoulder. I'm not the one whining here, after all. Your culture isn't being supplanted (unless you chose to supplant it). But you don't get to say that *your* culture is the default for others. Because that would be supplanting *their* culture. Capisce?

@ROchoaLabor @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 First off fuck you for assuming anything about me and putting words in my mouth, I actually like jazz and swing. Second of all you seem to have a MASSIVE chip on your shoulder, that is a YOU problem. I just don’t like that MY culture is being supplanted by a foreign one.

I started listening to Bad Bunny when I moved to Miami a few years ago. It was always playing in the gym. I started to learn the songs, which started teaching me words in Spanish. Then some of the Dominican trainers at the gym and I became friends, and they started speaking Spanish with me. It gave me a small taste of what it must be like for immigrants who don’t speak English to come to America and turn to movies, TV shows, and music to learn the language. And how quickly you can become friends with someone even when you only share a few words in common. IMO that’s what Bad Bunny’s halftime show captured creatively. Latin culture is special. And you don’t need to speak the language to be invited to the party, dance, and experience community & connection. I’m glad he didn’t sing a single word in English. It’s his party. And I appreciate him inviting all of us, fluent or not, to be part of it.

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Sorry that's BS about limited space. You obv omitted jazz, blues and gospel because -- to you -- they are not cultural touchstones. And that's OK. People can have different formative experiences. Just because something isn't emblematic of your youth doesn't make it less American.

@ROchoaLabor @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Becuase twitter has limited space, and oh no fucking typos 🙄

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Jazz, blues and gospel music are just as much cultural touchstones in the US. Yet they don't make your list. Wonder why? 🤔 You might also want to study the difference between "aspersions" and "aspirations" - as well as between "fairy tails" and "fairy tales" 🤣

@ROchoaLabor @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 No those are cultural icons of America. You know American experiences vs aspersions. Americana is literally past American culture, red white and blue our nations flag, rock and roll an American cultural touchstone that defined a generation. etc. etc.

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Of course those are aspirational. Quite universal, too. Way more representative of what it means to be American than your original (rather juvenile) list: "Americana, red white and blue, rock and roll, American exceptionalism, suburbia, hope, freedom, bbq, Hollywood, fast cars"

@ROchoaLabor @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Oh forgive me for thinking a loving home, a desire for freedom, the ability to do anything if you put your mind to it, and a patriotic love of one’s nation and culture were somehow not aspirational. I thought those were fundamental American values

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 The Hollywood fantasy was that your personal experience defines what it means to be American. You believed the myth that the nation revolved around you. The fact you call it "aspirational" proves my point. It was a marketing gambit sold to the masses. And you feel for it. 🍭

@ROchoaLabor @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 You claimed I was sold a “Hollywood fantasy” and dismissed it out of hand before you knew a damn thing about me, it may not be a universal experience, but nothing is, and it WAS the predominant aspirational culture of the US.

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Then you're angry at someone else, because I didn't say that. I said your experience was real. But it was not (was never) universal. Your experience was not a fantasy. But believing that your particular experience = a universal experience of Americanism? That is a fairy tale.

@ROchoaLabor @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 I’m not angry that others had different experiences. I’m angry you are calling my culture and lived experience a fairy tail and trying to supplant and replace it. I am sorry you didn’t get to experience it but it was the Norm for millions, what gives you the right to dismiss that

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 I don't doubt it's how you grew up. What I'm challenging is the notion that your particular experience growing up is somehow THE American experience. That's the fairy tale. Being so angry that others have (and have always had) a different experience of America is just infantile

@ROchoaLabor @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Also maybe you didn’t live it, but I did, it’s far from a fantasy. It was how I grew up up, and what I believed in. And it feels like it’s dying.

@EricBur64256003 @jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 That's a pretty narrow definition of Americanism that was *never* a universal representation of our country. You were sold a Hollywood fantasy and are crying that it's not other's reality. Grow up.

@jonperry501 @Nicolascole77 Americana, red white and blue, rock and roll, American exceptionalism, suburbia, hope, freedom, bbq, Hollywood, fast cars, AMERICA. I mean fuck dude, have we fallen so far people don’t even know anymore, I grew up in the 90s and my concept of America is very solid. This wasn’t it

A union of federal workers, in solidarity with communities facing DHS invasions, has called on the Senate to shut down the government absent meaningful reforms to ICE and CPB. None of us are safe unless all of us are safe! Solidarity Forever!

For the first time since 2022, we’re back at the bargaining table. Today, NCDP staff shared testimony with management about our past experience with layoffs as well as the potential harm of AI to our work.

Mayor Mamdani says he called Trump this morning to voice his disagreement with the aggressions in Venezuela and capture of Maduro. “I called the president and spoke with him directly to register my opposition to this act.”

@clenchner @woodsoffin It was the term for someone whose dies had lapsed within the last 12 months. The were still a member, "constitutionally," but not in good standing. After 12 months they were no longer a member.

@woodsoffin What is constitutional membership?

Falldrive roughly increased DSA's membership between new members and returns by 17k. That's 78k to 95k. And since constitutional membership was removed, those are all relatively active or at least current dues paying members The largest real membership DSA has ever had!

@mikaelvWV @petersterne That same history that led to teaching assistants and research assistants (and now postdoctoral scholars) organizing with the UAW is also why lawyers are part of the UAW (both Locals 2320 and 2325 emerged from District 65/UAW).

@mikaelvWV @petersterne x.com/i/status/19953…

UAW 2325 (the union representing NYC public defenders) passed a resolution calling on NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to drop Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. There are UAW 2325 members advising Mamdani, so this means something. alaa.org/media-releases…

@antifa_17 @arash_tehran @hoosier_cs My brother in Christ, they're not randos. You've been in DSA less than five months. Maybe try some self-awareness that just because you haven't yet learned about something DSA-related doesn't make it marginal?

I know it’s unrealistic right now but PSLs coordination/media apparatus outlets combined with DSAs big tent mass org could be an insane machine. Imagine a cadre org made up of DSA & PSL combined cadre, a mass org with over 100k members and canvassers, and a robust media apparatus