Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton has the nomination almost in the bag, nothing is gonna stop her. Those hoping for an FBI indictment need to give it a rest, Obama will not let that happen while he is president. Sadly having the nomination doesn't mean she will win the general election. Odds are President Trump will be what we hear for the next 4 years. That is what us progressives have to live with. As we won't vote for her, she will lose. The US Supreme Court, The EPA, Roe V Wade, and all that we hold dear will be gutted. But that's OK, we will go back to living our lives knowing we won't be targeted by Trumps storm troopers. However people of color, muslims, women, they won't be so lucky. At least they will know that we stuck to our principles, principles soaked in white privilege. Let us be honest in what we do.

BETTER, STRONGER, and UNITED.

We delivered a petition to Bank of America last October when more than 100 bank workers and supporters marched into the Bank of America building in Los Angeles. I was there and the petition had about 5000 signatures. When we entered the bank we screamed and shouted, we picketed and protested, we demanded to be heard. All while doing it as legally protected actions. The Bank of America employees from around the country who participated still work for the bank and are still organizing.

I will say it feels good standing up for yourself and your coworkers and making the company treat you with respect and dignity. I see the changes that have occurred since we started organizing. Robin was transferred out and John replaced her. The mass write ups and threats of termination have disappeared. Training has gotten better though it still needs more work. Even the extra 5 minutes on Mondays is a show of respect to employees. I do believe this was the result of us working for the betterment of conditions.

I thank my coworkers who are working to make BofA a better place to work. I may be one of the spokesmen but the people who support this effort, who work behind the scenes, the real power behind us are the ones who should be acknowledged. This has always been about teamwork and we have built the best team.

I am proud to have been a part of the creation of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Committee for Better Banks and look forward to expanding throughout the finance industry here in our state. Santander, Citizens, Fidelity, and others all have call centers here in RI. We are better when we are connected but we are stronger when we are united.

Tellers and cashiers are in the same boat.

So I'm wearing my bank workers are organizing shirt and am in cvs. The clerk asks me about it so I tell him many people would be surprised to hear a third of tellers in this country receive food stamps or other public assistance. He was shocked then said cashiers at cvs were probably easily more than a third. I asked if he supported the fight for $15. He said he did but cvs would raise their prices. Knowledge is power. Think I shall make my own fight for $15 too.

It's true

Hard to believe in the richest industry in the country, bank workers are on food stamps.

Low bank wages costing the public millions, report says

One-third of bank tellers rely on public assistance

These Bank Employees Get Paid So Little That They Need Public Assistance

James Carville: 1/3 of bank tellers are on public assistance