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Joseph A. McCartin

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Joseph Anthony McCartin is an American historian and professor of history at Georgetown University. His research focuses on labor unions… more

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ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
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LAWCHA President @josephamccartin.bsky.social shared more reflections on last week's Unmasking Union Antisemitism hearing on the Labor History Today Podcast.

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Labor History Today | laborhistorytoday
Gripping stories of the historic battles for worker rights and how they fuel today’s struggles. Part of the Labor Radio/Podcast Network: #LaborRadioPod
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“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.”

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#tdih 1858, 18-yr-old John Price was arrested by a federal marshal in Oberlin, Ohio under Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Group of local residents (Black & white) stormed hotel, found Price, & took him to freedom in Canada.

Abolitionists were arrested. Read ⬇️
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Sept. 13, 1858: Oberlin Wellington Rescue
Eighteen-year-old John Price was arrested by a federal marshal in Oberlin, Ohio under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
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josephamccartin.bsky.social
Merely raising the name of AFT president @rweingarten.bsky.social triggered the "ire" of Rep Tim Walberg (R-MI) to such an extent that he couldn't resist making the malicious and obviously dishonest statement that she "has not said anything, anything, about antisemitism." Her response is priceless.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 28d
Really @repwalberg? You think I - a Jewish American who has faced antisemitism and is married to a Rabbi - has never spoken out against antisemitism? The truth is, I consistently speak out against antisemitism. Here are just a few examples.
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Really @repwalberg? You think I - a Jewish American who has faced antisemitism and is married to a Rabbi - has never spoken out against antisemitism? The truth is, I consistently speak out against antisemitism. Here are just a few examples.
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by Joseph A. McCartin

josephamccartin.bsky.social
It was an honor to join KALW's Rose Aguilar and Johanna Miyaki, John Logan of SF State, and Victor Narro of UCLA for a discussion of the enormous rollback of union rights that's been instituted by the Trump administration and its frightening implications for all working people.
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Trump's order is "most aggressive act of union busting in US history"
More than a million federal workers have lost their collective bargaining and union protections. Trump has also cut wages and made working conditions worse.
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phillewis.bsky.social
The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced
Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.
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A Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive.

Read story and view full video: newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-feder...
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lawcha.bsky.social
See this upcoming event from @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social. "No Time for Caution: How Labor Should Meet This Moment." Webinar featuring Stephen Lerner, Stephanie Luce, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social, and @willpjones.bsky.social. Register using this link:
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Nearly 300 primary care physicians employed by Mass General Brigham have notified federal authorities that they want to join a union, citing “burnout” and the “corporatization of medicine” at the state’s largest health system.
Citing ‘burnout,’ nearly 300 primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham take steps to unionize - The Boston Globe
The doctors comprise the vast majority of primary care physicians employed by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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Bad news on top of bad news everywhere, so this comes at a good time: Ozarks folksinger Willi Carlisle has a great new album out today, and with it a fresh recording of an IWW spellbinder classic

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We Have Fed You All for 1000 Years
YouTube video by Willi Carlisle - Topic
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Reposted by: Joseph A. McCartin, Hilde Van den Bulck, John Palfrey

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Reposted by: Joseph A. McCartin, Tom Louwerse, Tarik Abou‐Chadi

mehdirhasan.bsky.social
I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.'

Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
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Veteran labor organizer/scholar Bob Bussel explains why we need to put efforts at labor law reform aside to focus on what unions themselves can do to revive the labor movement.
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Unhappy anniversary: National Labor Relations Act at 90 - NW Labor Press
This July marks the 90th anniversary of the National Labor Relations Act. It’s a timely opportunity to reflect on the law's mixed legacy.
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On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho
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#FusionVoting incentivizes what D.C. fears most: cooperation.

On issues like immigration—where 60%+ of Americans agree—we get gridlock because the two parties are locked in combat. Fusion lets coalition-minded voters back candidates across parties who support real solutions. #ElectionReform
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📢Birmingham bin workers, I back you 100%, @unitetheunion.bsky.social backs you 100%!

Today from Conference hall, you have the support and weight of the whole union! Solidarity. ✊
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#OtD 10 Jul 1949 Black @IWW dockworker activist Ben Fletcher died at his home in Brooklyn, aged 59. He had been the leading organiser who organised the Philadelphia docks in the early part of the 20th-century, and was imprisoned during World War I. More: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-...
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I wrote about the floods in Central Texas, ICE in Los Angeles, and why this moment feels so discordant with the last decade of climate politics in the U.S. newrepublic.com/article/1977...
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When billion-dollar companies like MGM and Fenway Park rake in profits, workers shouldn’t have to beg for fair wages and basic protections.

Standing in full solidarity with the workers ready to strike. You are owed better! seiu.co/408UO1K
Fenway Park, MGM employees prepare for strike ‘at any time’
Employees at Fenway Park and MGM Music Hall could begin a strike at any time.
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
We want ICE out of our Hospitals.
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if Trump were actively trying to impoverish and deskill the united states for the sake of our competitors, what would he be doing differently?
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George Pearkes @peark.es · Jul 9
the American government is effectively ending its space program.
Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push
The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.
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Reposted by: Joseph A. McCartin, Elizabeth Saunders, Shawn Cole

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the American government is effectively ending its space program.
Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push
The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.
www.politico.com
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georgetownkilwp.bsky.social
90 years after the Wagner Act, labor unions must return to their roots of civil disobedience and join forces with other progressive forces to protect workers, get real legislation passed and rebuild from the rubble

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@josephamccartin.bsky.social for The American Prospect
Requiem for the Wagner Act
Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.
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Although the Wagner Act was once the labor movement’s “magna carta,” today it is a toothless piece of legislation that has exposed the fallacy of the labor movement’s overreliance on the legislative process. From ‪@josephamccartin.bsky.social‬:
Requiem for the Wagner Act
Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.
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