Israel’s indiscriminate bombing is hitting hospitals, refugee camps, and killing thousands of innocent people. It must stop now.
The immediate task is to stop the bombing, end the horrific humanitarian disaster in Gaza, and go forward with the entire world toward a two-state solution.
If the big three can afford to give a pay raise of more than 40% to their CEOs, they can provide the same type of pay raise for the autoworkers who make their products.
I wanted to say a few words today about our broken, dysfunctional health care system and give you an update on an important bipartisan bill that will be significant step forward.
At a time when CEOs are making 400x more than the average worker, the American people are asking a simple question: Which side are you on?
Here is a simple moral proposition. No one in America, or anywhere in the world, should die or suffer unnecessarily because they cannot afford the medicine they need.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/20/poor-people-in-the-developing-world-have-a-right-to-medicine
Nurses at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington are on strike fighting for adequate staffing, fair wages, and safe working conditions for themselves and for the care of their patients. We must stand with them.
Today, on Veterans Day, let us honor our veterans, their families, and loved ones. We owe them a debt of gratitude we will never be able to truly repay.
To ask for classrooms without mold or mice is not radical. Students and teachers deserve decent classroom conditions and teachers deserve decent pay. I stand with @pdxteachers and Portland teachers in their fight to make their schools better for students and themselves.
It is no great secret that the corporate media is not particularly sympathetic to unions and the needs of the working class. CNBC’s Jim Cramer’s recent comments are an example of that. Here’s how @uaw.union members responded.
On Tuesday, we saw a grassroots movement come together in Ohio and make it clear that we must protect a women’s right to control her own body and move forward on legalizing marijuana.
Corporate greed is Pfizer tripling the price of Paxlovid to $1,390 a dose and quadrupling the price of its COVID vaccine to $115 while it made over $31 billion in profits last year and gave its CEO $33 million in compensation. Unacceptable.
Too often, the needs of young people are ignored. When I was mayor of Burlington, we established a Youth Office to involve our youth in a host of programs. One of the most successful was called 242 Main. Watch this video from the Sanders Institute on it.
What the UAW is fighting for is not radical. It is the totally reasonable demand that autoworkers, who have made enormous financial sacrifices over the past 40 years, finally receive a fair share of the record-breaking profits that their labor has generated.
Now it’s time for the leaders of General Motors to recognize the worth of the workers who make their record profits possible.
