"What we need to do is nationalize our issue," says D.C.'s shadow representative Oye Owolewa. "If you want to see true steps against climate change, D.C. statehood gets you there."
The New Yorker’s union employees did not go to work on Thursday.
The more than 100 employees represented by The New Yorker Union, which includes fact checkers, web producers and some other editorial employees, decided on the daylong walkout after recent rounds of negotiations with management failed, said Natalie Meade, the union chair.
The issue is pay. Ms. Meade, who is a fact checker at the magazine, said the union wanted to raise the salary minimum to $65,000. In the recent negotiations, managers at The New Yorker did not hit that number, she said, instead offering wage increases that she called “insulting.”
Addressing a crowd earlier this week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared that Joseph Stalin was actually a conservative or at least a center-right kind of guy. "Nobody was actually on the left in Soviet Russia Stalin was center.
Top Democrat Jamie Raskin says an assassination party tried to hunt down Pelosi and Pence during MAGA riot as Cory Booker leads calls for Trump s IMMEDIATE impeachment trial
Jamie Raskin said Sunday that there was an assassination party hunting down Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence during the Capitol riots earlier this month
The Democratic representative is the lead manager for the team arguing for convicting the president of incitement of insurrection
Their case insists Trump directed the violent crowd to descend on the Capitol and relies on them proving the mob had intents to harm officials in the riot
Acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Michael Sherwin said Friday there is no direct evidence of kill capture teams