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@orshay.bsky.social
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PhD student at Cornell ILR. Interested in industrial relations, labor policy, unions, and teacher labor. Before that, I was a labor lawyer.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes being tortured in the El Salvador mega prison, where Trump sent him without due process — admittedly by mistake. As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Good.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Teachers will be laid off. Class sizes will grow. And students with the fewest resources and greatest needs will pay the highest price. www.foxnews.com/opinion/rand...
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RANDI WEINGARTEN: Trump's decision to gut the Education Department is not only illegal, it's wrong
It is hard to imagine how 7.5 million kids with disabilities, 26 million kids from low-income families or 13 million young people who get financial aid for college won’t be disserved.
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Johnnie Kallas @johnniekallas.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
💡New article out on strikes! I draw on interviews with ever inspiring Starbucks union activists and data from the @laboraction.bsky.social to demonstrate how workers and union activists organize different types of strikes in the United States. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Oh, okay. Thank goodness, I was getting a bit worried.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The momentum we continue to build in opposition of Trump’s reckless policies and in support of economic opportunity for all Americans continues to grow. bsky.app/profile/aftu...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit. While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall. Hello?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!
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"One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, I'm not a gang member. I'm gay. I'm a barber.' I believed him. *** He "began to whimper," as his head was roughly shaved, "folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell." He
"asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again."Photo of Andry featured on MSNBC. Chyron reads: 
IMMIGRATION ATTY. SAYS ASYLUM-SEEKING CLIENT WAS DEPORTED BECAUSE OF MISREADING OF TATTOOSA photo of Andry’s wrists showing his “mom” and “dad” tattoos. Each has a crown above them, which ICE thought made him a gang member. A photo of Andry having his head shaved in El Salvador, his hands clasped together in prayer.
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NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO @nyclabor.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Get up, get down! NY is a UNION TOWN! #HandsOff
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 07/04/2025
Being able to heat your home in the winter is not a luxury. It is a matter of life and death. Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The fact that this atrocity isn't the main headline of this news cycle just shows what a clusterfuck we're living through
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Who’s standing up and speaking out on April 5? The people who work for a living.  Across all 50 states, we’re saying Hands Off our jobs and our unions. Find an event near you: handsoff2025.com
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Who would have thought. An anti-union rich guy gets elected president and appoints an anti-union labor secretary who supports anti-union laws. I'm shocked.
thenation.com
Trump’s Labor Secretary Pick Turns Out to Be Super Anti-Labor
Surprise, surprise: Former representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer supports anti-union “right to work” laws and rejects a national minimum-wage hike.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
.@AFGENational has its members’ backs. We stand with them. This is an appalling, illegal abuse of power by a billionaire who gets $$ of federal largesse. A billionaire who doesn’t need federal services. Should Presidents try to make things more efficient? Yes. This is not that. It’s evisceration
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Daily Union Elections @unionelections.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
NEW: 2,400 Grocery store workers for Tony's Fresh Market across 22 stores throughout Chicagoland are unionizing with @ufcw.bsky.social Local 881.
Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit.  The employer is Tony's Fresh Market lcoated in Melrose Park, Illinois.  there are 1,291 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of all full-time and part time Clerks, assistant managers, and department managers.Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit.  The employer is Tony's Fresh Market lcoated in Chicago, Illinois.  there are 1,109 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of all full-time and part time Clerks, assistant managers, and department managers.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
WHY IS MUSK GETTING AMERICANS PRIVATE FINANCIAL INFORMATION?
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
"Many of my good friends have their funding withdrawn or frozen based on the DEIA wording such as 'diverse microbes'" a scientist reliant on federal research grants told me, adding NSF proposals with terms including 'disabilities' and 'female' have been put on hold
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Next step: firing the rest of the education department employees because they know how to read
politico.com
Education Department employees placed on leave for attending diversity training
Several employees began receiving leave notices late Friday.
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Republicans came up with a strategy: every time they want to take down a part of public education, they repeat the magic words "Marxism," "transgenderism," and "green new deal." Not sure if it's a winning strategy, but it's a strategy.
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If there were only two genders, homeboy wouldn't have to sign executive orders against all the other genders 🤷‍♂️
turnto23.com
Two Gender Executive Order Signed by President Trump: Explained
President Donald Trump's executive order essentially eliminates all genders other than male and female amongst other topics. The order also aims to eliminate gender ideology.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Let’s be clear: not in schools. The anxiety this has caused all parents, educators & children is cruel & counterproductive . That’s why we wrote the President & asked him to change course. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
politico.com
As schools brace for Trump's immigration raids, Dems split over how to respond
A mixed response underscores the political challenges some of the largest Democratic enclaves are facing as they confront Trump’s toughened immigration actions.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Our @aftunion.bsky.social members have a responsibility to all children. We don’t question the immigration status of our students or patients. We're respectfully asking President Trump to restrict ICE arrests at sensitive locations such as hospitals and schools. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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AFT’s Weingarten on President Trump’s Deportation Plans
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security said it would end a policy restricting U.S.
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Welcome back home 🎗 #BringThemHome #Israel
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Hamas hands over Gaza hostages to Red Cross, en route to Israel
ICRC collect Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Doron Steinbrecher from Hamas terrrorists • Report: Israel received word hostages in 'good condition'
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Good. Do it. We're all waiting.
reuters.com
Hardline Israeli minister Ben-Gvir threatens to quit over Gaza deal
Israel's hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Thursday he would resign from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government if it ratifies the ceasefire deal in Gaza, which he has strongly opposed.
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
At this point, SCOTUS is just trying to turn the US into a parody of how other nations view the US. Also, they're a cult of death eaters.
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David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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NIH postdocs, graduate students win union contract
Historic deal will boost researcher pay—if Congress provides funding
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
“The corporatization of health care has left many Providence employees frustrated and burnt out as they are being told to spend less ..time with patients and more time trying to drive up profits."5,000 Oregon doctors, RNS & caregivers will be on strike starting Jan 10 www.wweek.com/news/2024/12...
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Providence Workers Plan Strike for Jan. 10 After Negotiations Fail
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Progress like this would not have been possible without the tireless advocacy of the labor movement, and by groups like Fight For 15. We have work to do, but this is great progress in the right direction. www.axios.com/2024/12/30/m...
axios.com
Where the minimum wage will rise in 2025
Workers in 21 states are getting a raise on Jan. 1.
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Yesterday in Tel Aviv: "Yes, deal. Yes, peace." Standing Together is a Jewish-Arab peace movement. #Israel #GazaWar #Peace Photo credit: Aviv Atlas
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Rio Tazewell @riotazewell.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
70% of Americans who receive food stamps and Medicaid work full time, with Walmart one of the worst offenders as the country’s single largest employer. Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to subsidize corporations who get away with paying poverty wages, especially not while raking in record profits.
jacobin.com
Walmart Is Still Putting Ebenezer Scrooge to Shame
Infamous for its starvation wages, Walmart just posted staggering first-quarter profits. The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers c...
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Teachers are, in most cases, decent human beings. They don't want to out LGBTQ children. They do want to respect children of queer families. State legislators around the country are attacking this decency, which they refer to as "gender ideology," because they lack any decency themselves.
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A win for librarians is a win for all 📚✌️
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
In the Santa Cruz California area? Joanna and her coworkers invite you to head on over to Swanton Berry Farms in Davenport CA and buy union made fruit pies, strawberries, pumpkins and strawberry jams for your holiday gatherings. #WeFeedYou
Union worker holding up a berry pie she just made
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The best reason to visit the motherland.
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Of course her last act as governor is against teachers. That's just what the GOP is about at this point.
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"And in this election, voters overwhelmingly supported both public schools and workers’ rights when they were on the ballot, including in places where Trump won"
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Andrew Goldstein @andrewmakebluesky.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Striking NUHW health worker: "It was clear to me that as an ethical clinician, I couldn’t continue to work within this broken system. So I decided that I had to do what we are taught to do as social workers: advocate for myself and my patients." labornotes.org/blogs/2024/1...
labornotes.org
Kaiser Strikers Say When Therapists Burn Out, Patients Suffer
I am a licensed clinical social worker who has been on strike against the Kaiser Permanente health care system for 53 days now. I work as a medical social worker in the infectious diseases clinic, wor...
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Gabor Scheiring @gscheiring.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Go and organize/support unions! An additional year of #union membership reduces the odds of #mortality by 1.5%. This magnitude is about half that of consistent attachment to paid employment. Details in this great paper by @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social & colleagues: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
"Are you for or against ending the war in Gaza in exchange for bringing back all the hostages?" For: 72% Against: 15% Don't know: 13% #Israel #War #GazaWar
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
It was never about "parental rights"
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
The Mortality Implications of a Unionized Career
An emerging literature has documented a wide range of protections and benefits that union membership provides for health and wellbeing. However, this …
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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Also sharing this starter pack of class analysts again for the folks who are new here: go.bsky.app/VTirGYT
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Every time I read the local news and see a teacher who was awarded a $250 grant for her classroom, I understand that she spent hours of her own time applying for it. Writing it. Going through a submission process. For $250. For her classroom…
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 11/12/2024
The labor movement-including our own Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond-were out in force on Capitol Hill today to tell the Senate to vote on the Social Security Fairness Act! Over 2 million retirees have had their Social Security checks unfairly cut, and this bipartisan bill would put a stop to it.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
“The union has demanded a $2 hourly raise in their first year of the contract, followed by $1.50 per hour raise in each of the second and third years. Strand Books' management has offered 50 cents less for each year, according to Bermeo.”
gothamist.com
Workers go on strike at NYC's iconic Strand Books, ask owners to pay more than minimum wage
The 110 employees manage the Strand's famous "18 miles of books."
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Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
An interesting read on how the media covers strikes
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Airport Workers United @goodairports.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Airport worker Living in Storage Unit. Airport worker Living in Storage Unit? Airport worker Living in Storage Unit! Meanwhile... @americanair.bsky.social CEO made over $31 million in 2023.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In case you missed it, a Wisconsin judge this week struck down former Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10 law. The move will restore public sector workers' collective bargaining rights. This is a moment of celebration and hope in these troubled times.
wpr.org
Dane County judge strikes down Act 10, restoring public employee union bargaining rights
Public employee collective bargaining rights have been restored by a Dane County judge, who ruled that several sections of Wisconsin's controversial law known as Act 10 are unconstitutional.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If it's upheld, workers will be able to create and join unions and fight for stronger public education, higher education and stronger communities. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
jsonline.com
Act 10 overturned by Dane County judge. Walker-era law decimated public employee unions
The effort to overturn Act 10 began in November 2023 when several unions representing public employees filed the lawsuit, citing a "dire situation" in workplaces with issues including low pay, staffin...
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