Victorious labor organizer Chris Smalls vs. AOC

By artappraiser on Sun, 04/03/2022 - 8:32pm |

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Chris Smalls, fired from Amazon almost two years ago to the day, just popped champagne outside the NLRB offices where he and his peers won one of the greatest labor victories in a generation. “To the first Amazon union in history,” he said. pic.twitter.com/ZHNcjFC5N1
— Jodi Kantor (@jodikantor) April 1, 2022

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Smh @AOC that’s terrible workers from your district definitely commute to Staten Island I know them personally maybe you should do your do diligence
— Christian Smalls (@Shut_downAmazon) March 31, 2022

That @AOC responded immediately to Krystal Ball (a media commentator), but didn’t respond to Christian Smalls (who led the actual organizing effort) should effectively seal the deal on the form of politics she represents. https://t.co/hCJU9n7w5O
— Q. Anthony Omene (@qaomene) April 1, 2022

Not 1 member of the squad showed up. They all ghosted Chris. & this wasn’t just another event. It was the most substantial worker led organizing effort at one of the most powerful companies in the world. They all had excuses? For all the many months of this organizing drive?
— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) March 31, 2022

Waking up to AOC showing us who she really is. Again. “It’s not my district peasants!”
— Thia is with … (@ThiaBallerina) April 1, 2022

AOC getting dunked on for being a bandwaggoner who skips the work but shows up for the credit. pic.twitter.com/VIXXBeKrdR
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) March 31, 2022

Very bizarre to observe internet weirdos defending AOC against the actual union organizer who helped spearhead the Amazon union drive in Staten Island. Really begs the question, which side are you on?
— Clever Pseudonym (@minimoogles) April 1, 2022

AOC canceled on Amazon union activists when needed her telling them she's not doing public appearances anymore. A few weeks later she appeared at the *Met gala* and never got back to them. Now she's bandwagoning since they've been successful

Luckily @krystalball has the receipts pic.twitter.com/kYPRZFY1uC
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) March 31, 2022

AFAIK the Met is not in AOC's district but she sure had time for this! pic.twitter.com/SPaS7KXIVQ
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) March 31, 2022

Amazon Union Organizer on AOC's lack of support for the drive, "She went radio silent for 6 months...and didn't show a word of support for us until it was clear we were going to win." @JordanChariton ON-THE-GROUND following the Amazon Union VICTORY pic.twitter.com/DI2QvWTmha
— Status Coup News (@StatusCoup) April 1, 2022

If you’re actually attacking Christian Smalls for calling AOC out, you’re siding with a politician over one of the most effective labor organizers in New York State. I would burn a communist manifesto before I would do that you weird online fucking simps
— Lobbyist for Big Poor (@ALeftistMoniker) April 1, 2022

If AOC doesn't give a fuck about workers' outside her district why does she ask workers outside her district to donate to her?
— Revolutionary Blackout Network (@SocialistMMA) April 1, 2022

"Hell No, she don't deserve this moment," @Shut_downAmazon responds to whether he has a message for AOC who workers told @statuscoup flaked on them and wouldn't show support for their union drive pic.twitter.com/W6RtkGbA6G
— Status Coup News (@StatusCoup) April 1, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/03/2022 - 8:45pm

If Saagar and Susan Sarandon are clownplaining, maybe it wasn't a problem (is Bernie evil too?). Met Gala was 7 1/2 months ago for this curious. And it didn't seem like AOC was trying to take credit, but who knows.

The warehouse isn’t in my district and maybe you should look at a map before claiming so. One scheduling conflict aside, we have requested oversight investigations into Amazon, met with Amazon workers in the Woodside warehouses, and more. Hope you do more due diligence next time.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 31, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/04/2022 - 12:42am

I just think it is what it is, it's there, it's a division that's happened.

(I think you misunderstand the complaint about the Met Gala, that was at the same time they asked for her to be involved and supportive and they feel she did not and did not think highly of their potential. And now they are basically crowing that they knew how to do it and she did not. And they feel she wants to take credit for what they did despite her negativity. I do agree with a complaint I saw elsewhere that bartending and waiting tables for small business is not the same thing as a working class job and if that's your only experience, you don't truly know the other kind of life. I know, I did it for many years, it paid for my education, and I got close to many people in it and know it's not at all the same thing, it's actually quite entrepreneurial.)

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/04/2022 - 3:39am

I've worked in a warehouse - briefly - very much prompted me to get out ASAP. Degrading, overwhelming, feeling of being trapped, exhausting.... Yes, I realized there was ambiguity on her Met timing, whether at beginning of effort 6 months ago or final push. They're complaining about Bernie as well, which might mean too much expectations or both needed to pitch in on the union side if it makes up such a big part of their pitch. And I don't know how insufferabe the main organizing group is.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/04/2022 - 8:35am

hmmm sounds like real lefty coalition building to me:

These two are both real heroes https://t.co/N4K0EQfgWr
— Sam Haselby (@samhaselby) April 13, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/13/2022 - 7:52pm

Still unsure, but a rather pro-Danziger article to counter bribery & other charges:

https://earthrights.org/blog/what-you-think-you-know-about-chevron-and-s...

A shame Lulu wouldn't bother a real discussion rather than a broad-brush kill the messenger approach.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/16/2022 - 11:23am

Wow, @Shut_downAmazon did a great job on Tucker Carlson. He pivoted immediately to bread-and-butter issues and a broad defense of union rights and didn't take any of the bait. https://t.co/A7olsBfvak
— Bhaskar Sunkara (@sunraysunray) April 15, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/16/2022 - 2:43am

I note AOC is showing up with Bernie on Staten Island, trying to make amends, set things right (previously she gave the excuse that Staten Island wasn't her district!)

The workers @amazonlabor are taking on the most powerful company in America and one of the wealthiest men on the planet. @aoc and I are on Staten Island to stand with them. https://t.co/QvkR4a3JJF
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 24, 2022

.@BernieSanders introduces @AOC, who she calls “Tío Bernie.”

“If you can go to space you can give your workers a bathroom break,” she says at the @amazonlabor rally ahead of the second unionization vote starting tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/2nyC6QKWxd
— Josefa Velásquez (@J__Velasquez) April 24, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/24/2022 - 12:09pm

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