8/3 News Roundup – Sanders On Supporting Nissan Workers’ Fight To Unionize, Bernie’s Medicare For All Digital Campaign & More
Why I Proudly Support Nissan Workers’ Fight To Unionize by Bernie Sanders
A few months before the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr wrote in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail: “We know from painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
This week, thousands of courageous workers at a Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, are doing just that. They are voting for the right to join a union, the right to make a living wage and the right to job security and pensions. And they are doing so by connecting workers’ rights with civil rights, as the plant’s workforce is over 80% African American.
But Nissan, like other large corporations, is doing everything it can to stop these workers from forming a union. In the lead up to the vote, Nissan management has been deluging employees with anti-union literature and is threatening to close the plant if a majority of its workers vote to establish a union.
Supervisors have called workers off assembly lines for one-on-one interrogations. Anti-union videos are being run on a constant loop in employee break rooms. Groups of workers have been called into “roundtable” meetings to hear management disparage the United Auto Workers (UAW). Nissan has been saturating local TV and radio with anti-union propaganda.
This could go down as one of the most vicious, and illegal, anti-union crusades in decades. Workers should never have to endure this type of threatening campaign or walk through a minefield just to vote for a union.
The truth is Nissan is an all-too-familiar story of how greedy corporations divide and conquer working people.
Bernie Speaking during the March On Mississippi earlier this year:
Tips, Comments, Complaints, Etc!
Just incase anyone missed it, here is Nina Turner talking at that same event:
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I called Nissan North America consumer relations – chose one of the last options – to speak to a person and left my name, address and phone number and expressed my views in support of the workers who should be allowed to join a union.
After I spoke a few words I was put on hold and the person came back and said they wanted to document my comment and asked for the contact info.
I also pointed out that Henry Ford knew enough to pay his workers enough money so they could afford one of his cars…
Money Pours In for Sanders’s New Medicare for All Digital Campaign
Wow, 19,000 responses in 24 hours. Way to engage the people!
Turns out they like being asked for their opinion and feel passionately enough about it to bother.
THe “Monkey Wrench Brigade” springs into action!
https://twitter.com/gdebenedetti/status/893186917776461824
Some of those names surprise me others not so much.
In the Wake of the GOP’s Healthcare Failure, Bernie Sanders Will Push Medicare For All
We don’t have the time for the status quo. I’m so glad that millennial/X Gen voters now outnumber boomers!
Millennials and Gen Xers outvoted Boomers and older generations in 2016 election
The kids are alright….to borrow a phrase
Some Dems Now Running on Single Payer Healthcare…Do They Have a Shot?
Seems like an organized outfit ready to serve Vermont…
Sanders challenger splits with campaign manager, says U.S. Senate campaign is not over
Sanders Challenger Still In the Race
LOL, what a mess!
OFD trying to claim that Svitavsky was “never a Democrat” and a Bernie supporter, lololol, too late! You’re ruined your cred already.
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https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/892942240141717504
The only way Bernie loses this race if the PTB rig the diebolds
Nissan workers in Mississippi begin voting on union
Maybe I missed it. I Tom Perez in the picture?
Democratic candidates for governor to debate Aug. 12 in Flint
Democrats’ new ‘Better Deal’ comes up short for people of color
Interesting. We’re usually the ones who are accused of ignoring race and identity in favor of economic issues.
NARAL Pro-Choice endorses Randy Bryce for Ryan’s House seat
I no longer trust NARAL after their maneuvers in the primary.
https://www.glamour.com/story/naral-hillary-clinton
They are pulling a Bernie on Cathy Meyers which should come as no surprise!