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Vail Kohnert-Yount

@vail.bsky.social
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✊ UAW member 📍 Based in Boston 🤠 Texas & solidarity forever

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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
While people’s desire to defend DEI is well-intentioned, let’s be real: most corporate DEI “efforts” are just window dressing—which is especially harmful when they conceal these same corporations’ racialized exploitation of workers/consumers. If you want equity in your workplace, unionize.
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Vail Kohnert-Yount @vail.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
There's no way Michigan was even in play without UAW—same for Nevada & Arizona without UNITE HERE. . Dems failing unions yet again by not acting on NLRB nominees is at their own peril. We'll still be here without you, but you won't survive without us.
Currently, the Board has a 2-1 Democratic majority. In June 2024, Biden renominated current Board Chair Lauren McFerran (whose term expires on Dec. 16, 2024) to a third term and nominated Joseph L. Ditelberg to fill the Board’s vacant Republican seat. The Senate, however, has not yet confirmed these nominations. If McFerran is confirmed for a third term, the Board will maintain a Democratic majority until at least August 2026, when Member David Prouty’s term expires. This extended majority could lead to the continuation and expansion of pro-labor policies and decisions. But if the nominees are not confirmed by the Senate prior to Trump taking office, they will likely be filled by Trump appointees and the Board will return to a Republican majority.
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