Boilermaker Rep @IBBRep

My tweets are mine, retweets are not endorsements. North America Joined July 2011

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President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive

2 years ago

This morning, we learned that the unemployment rate has been under 4 percent for 16 months in a row. The last time our nation had such a long stretch of low unemployment was in the 1960s.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

3 years ago

If the rail industry can afford to spend $25.5 billion this year to buy back its own stock and hand out huge dividends to its wealthy shareholders, please do not tell me it cannot afford to guarantee paid sick days to its workers and provide them with a decent quality of life.

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Boilermaker Rep @IBBRep

3 years ago

11-9-1934 – The Depression-era Public Works Administration agrees with NYC on this day to begin a huge slum clearance project covering 20 acres in Brooklyn, where low cost housing for 2,500 families will be completed. It was the first jobs-and-housing projects across the country.

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3 years ago

11-9-1938 Today in Labor History The National Federation of Telephone Workers — later to become the Communications Workers of America — is founded in New Orleans.

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11-9-1919 – A confrontation between American Legionnaires and Wobblies during an Armistice Day Parade in Centralia, Wash., results in six deaths. One Wobbly was beaten, his teeth bashed in with a rifle butt, castrated and hanged: local officials listed his death as a suicide.

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Boilermaker Rep @IBBRep

3 years ago

'The right thing to do': Voters in deep red South Dakota approve Medicaid expansion rawstory.com/the-right-thin… #MAGAmeltdown

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Boilermaker Rep @IBBRep

3 years ago

#VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy #VOTETOSAVEDEMOCRACY #VoteBlueIn22 #VoteBlue

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True Blue 🇦🇺🐨 @SPBMcKenna

3 years ago

🇺🇲 It’s all on the ballot folks! #VoteBlueForSoManyReasons

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TG ☕️ @TG22110

3 years ago

Seems like a good time to remind all. #VoteBlueForSoManyReasons

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Boilermaker Rep @IBBRep

3 years ago

Today in Labor History 11-2-1909 Police arrest 150 in IWW free speech fight, Spokane, Wash. historylink.org/File/7357 via @HistoryLink

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Battleground UA @battleground_ua

3 years ago

In the Senate, @JohnFetterman won't be just another pretty face. He'll be a no-BS Senator who always stands up for the working class, because he is working class.

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Boilermaker Rep @IBBRep

3 years ago

#VoteBlueForDemocracy

NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact

3 years ago

#VoteBlueForDemocracy

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Boilermaker Rep @IBBRep

3 years ago

Today in Labor 11-1-1887 Thirty-seven Black striking Louisiana sugar workers are murdered when Louisiana militia, aided by bands of “prominent citizens,” shoot unarmed workers trying to get a dollar-per-day wage. Two strike leaders are lynched.

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3 years ago

Today in Labor. 11-1-1918 Malbone tunnel disaster in New York City; inexperienced scab motorman crashes five-car train during strike, 97 killed, 255 injured.

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God @TheTweetOfGod

3 years ago

.@elonmusk is insane. Please, please RT this.

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Boilermaker Rep @IBBRep

3 years ago

10-30-1991 The boat Andrea Gail, of Gloucester, Mass., is caught in a storm and lost at sea with a crew of six. The event inspired the book, The Perfect Storm, and a film by the same name. Gloucester lost more than 10,000 whalers and fishermen to the sea in its 350-year history.

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Boilermaker Rep @IBBRep

3 years ago

10-29-1929 in Labor History “Black Tuesday” — Wall Street crashes, throwing the world’s economy into a years-long crisis including an unemployment rate in the U.S. that by 1933 hit nearly 25 percent.

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3 years ago

10-28-65 in Labor History The St. Louis Gateway Arch is completed after two and one-half years. Originally sold as a jobs program for thousands of African Americans in St. Louis, the arch is 630 feet of stainless steel. Not a single worker died, it was predicted that 13 would.

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Robert Reich @RBReich

3 years ago

Few realize the extent to which our democracy is currently in jeopardy. In battleground states, election deniers have claimed almost 2/3rds of GOP nominations for offices that have authority over elections. We need to let everyone know what's at stake if these candidates win.