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Terri Gerstein

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Workers rights lawyer. Sometimes writer. ❤️: parks, nature, cities, conversation, social justice warriors, and ppl who are funny but not mean. Mom of two humans taller than me. Brooklynite.


Terri Gerstein's avatar Terri Gerstein @terrigerstein.bsky.social
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Progressive NYer here; I appreciate this dispatch from the Bible Belt. It’s also a chance to consider why some Jews wrongly think the crew you describe are our friends. We’ve had so few friends though history that maybe ppl kind of viscerally just appreciate when anyone appears to be a supporter.

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That sounds like mishegas to me. Or maybe I mean michigas.

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The owner of Grimaldi’s Pizzeria and the manager of its Manhattan branch were arrested on Thursday and charged with stealing more than $20,000 in wages from at least seven employees.

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Would you explain the connection to Come on Eileen? When I’ve revisited the lyrics, it sounds…not quite rapey but full of sexual pressure.

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This is completely disgusting. I’ve met people whose beloved family members were disappeared and it’s the most horrifying thing. It’s grotesque that anyone would make a joke or weirdo right wing comment about that.

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How absurd has the “gig” economy become? Denver’s labor agency cited 2 companies for treating restaurant *dishwashers* & others as independent contractors rather than employees w/ rights. We need more gov’t action to fight this. My latest in NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/o...

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“the "administrative state" -- the power of federal agencies like OSHA, MSHA, EPA & many other…agencies to issue regulations protecting workers, consumers & the environment -- is often the only thing that prevents total corporate dominance over Americans' lives.” jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

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Ugh I just ran into a horrendously anti-Semitic poster on here. Reported him but it was so nice to not be on Twitter and be free of Jew haters for a while.

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Weighing in as a lawyer: here she’s just summarizing what the law says. I couldn’t think of innovative ways to describe the National Labor Relations Act, for ex, if I were writing about it and I’m sure my summary of the law’s provisions would be very similar to those written countless times before.

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Wow what a wild piece. So these prestigious, powerful lifetime positions of public service should be influenced by what lawyers make in private sector law firms?? It’s bananas.

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It's really something to see the party of Jewish space lasers, Soros-backed protests, Camp Auschwitz, and Jews Will Not Replace Us suddenly so concerned about other people's antisemitism.

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Would it be a problem if they were Stars if David?

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Reuters documented 600+ previously unreported workplace injuries at Musk’s rocket co: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head & eye wounds & 1 death. SpaceX employees say they’re paying price for the billionaire’s push to colonize space at breakneck speed
www.reuters.com/investigates...

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Terri Gerstein's avatar Terri Gerstein @terrigerstein.bsky.social
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What exactly does your statement have to do with the Jewish Museum in DC, which is what he was writing about?

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Anti-union "persuaders" must file forms w the labor department describing their arrangement with a company. This Amazon "persuader" says it has a "verbal arrangement to provide professional consulting services...as may be needed from time to time." A *verbal* agreement?! Did they also pinky swear?

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Thank you for saying this. I need to get much better at this and yes this weekend has been hard.

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Thanks Charlotte!!! I hope you’re doing well.

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Also my sense is that many successful liberal people correctly accept the concept of structural racism but otherwise buy into the American dream of hard work leading to success/next generation being better off etc. - which leads to ppl not taking labor/economic injustice as seriously as they might.

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Joining the conversation: I think a lot of ppl (not limited to law profs) who consider themselves liberal have a harder time w economic justice issues & esp w labor. In the US these just don’t resonate, or maybe we don’t have as much of a framework for talking about this as other kinds of injustice.

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(But also could be used against right wing protest organizers, who often do seem much more violence oriented with their Nazi flags etc.) By the way is anyone injured on Jan 6 suing Trump under this same theory?

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Good lord I just read the beginning. (Too early on a weekend to subject myself to the entirety). But am I right that this allows a negligence claim against the organizer of a protest for injury done by an entirely different person during the course of the protest?

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Terri Gerstein's avatar Terri Gerstein @terrigerstein.bsky.social
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Hi everyone! A Q for those who are on here & also on Twitter: do you use the 2 sites differently? Or just post the same thing on each? I know this is likely to be less wild weird & troll-filled, but how does that affect how you post, engage, converse, interact w ppl on here? Thanks!

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