Unions and Busters
This is the primary aim/significance of a labor union.
What is building worker’s power?
The Trump administration has revoked the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate this.
What are greenhouse gases?
Time’s up for these people.
Who are the billionaires?
When Zohran Mamdani's popularity amongst the NYC electorate was becoming clear, wealthy, anti-socialist New Yorkers threatened to do this.
What is leave New York and all take their money with them? :o
On May 1, 1886, 400,000 to 500,000 workers demonstrated and went on strike across the country to primarily fight for this.
What is the 8 hour work day?
In horrifying contrast to the western claims that regime change would "liberate" Iranian women, on February 28 the US government killed over 175 people in an airstrike targeting this type of building.
What is an all girls' school?
Until its abolition in 1975, this was the most prominent and active government committee involved in anti-communist investigations.
What is House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
At a unionized workplace, this is a voluntary position taken up by an employee to represent and defend the interests of their fellow employees within the workplace.
What is a shop steward?
These economic and political measures take as many lives as war, killing as many as half a million people worldwide annually.
What are sanctions?
Joe Tache wants to fund this instead of the war machine.
What are people's needs?
In 1952 this comic and actor left the United States for good after years of persecution for his leftist politics. While never banned from the country, he was told he would have to reapply for residency should he ever come back.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
Following the civil war, this private police force was hired by corporations to conduct operations against organized labor -- infiltrating unions, recruiting intimidation squads, and violently breaking up strikes.
What are the Pinkertons? (still operational to this day as a detective agency)
Per the World Health Organization, this issue is the cause of the most preventable deaths worldwide.
What is poverty? Lack of access to water purification, land for sustainable food growth or basic medical supplies affect millions every year.
This act in Joe’s program will guarantee well-paid union jobs and job training so that we are able to build a society we deserve.
What is the National Employment Emergency Act?
This Republican Senator is the namesake for an era of anticommunist fearmongering that took place in the mid 20th century.
Who is Sen. Joseph McCarthy?