Vail Kohnert-Yount
@vail.bsky.social
✊ UAW member
📍 Based in Boston
🤠 Texas & solidarity forever
📍 Based in Boston
🤠 Texas & solidarity forever
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the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government
UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.
August 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government
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Wow I can’t believe that a right wing-friendly billionaire failson is not getting traction in the Boston mayoral race
A new Globe/Suffolk poll of the Boston mayoral race has Mayor Michelle Wu leading Josh Kraft 60 / 30. #bospoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/21/m...
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu holds commanding 30-point lead over Josh Kraft, Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll shows - The Boston Globe
The poll of 500 Boston voters likely to participate in the Sept. 9 preliminary election showed a wide gulf between Wu and Kraft, who drew 30 percent support to her 60 percent.
www.bostonglobe.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Wow I can’t believe that a right wing-friendly billionaire failson is not getting traction in the Boston mayoral race
Got to tell the Massachusetts legislature one of my favorite union-busting anecdotes about the time a beloved Boston retailer hired an out-of-state professional bodybuilder to recite anti-union propaganda at a captive audience meeting for its warehouse workers (spoiler alert: it didn’t work 😂💪)
Vail Kohnert-Yount of UAW 9A testifying in support of the Protect Labor Act and explaining how private sector workers would lose basic workplace rights if Trump guts the NLRA.
July 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Got to tell the Massachusetts legislature one of my favorite union-busting anecdotes about the time a beloved Boston retailer hired an out-of-state professional bodybuilder to recite anti-union propaganda at a captive audience meeting for its warehouse workers (spoiler alert: it didn’t work 😂💪)
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Andrew Cuomo to join Harvard's Institute of Politics.
June 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Andrew Cuomo to join Harvard's Institute of Politics.
Proud to work with Brandon Mancilla for our fellow @uaw.org members: “Not only do we not support the genocide in Gaza, but we also know that it’s coming at the expense of working-class people here.” jacobin.com/2025/04/uaw-...
“Most Workers Don’t Want Their Money Going to Foreign Wars”
The United Auto Workers’ Brandon Mancilla explains why his union has continued to oppose the genocide in Gaza, why slaughter abroad is tied to workers’ decline in living standards at home, and the uni...
jacobin.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Proud to work with Brandon Mancilla for our fellow @uaw.org members: “Not only do we not support the genocide in Gaza, but we also know that it’s coming at the expense of working-class people here.” jacobin.com/2025/04/uaw-...
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2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
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Any union leader who endorses Andrew Cuomo, a known & unrepentant sexual harasser, will be telling members that your union doesn't care about their civil rights.
Unions are supposed to fight sexual misconduct in the workplace, not endorse it.
Unions are supposed to fight sexual misconduct in the workplace, not endorse it.
February 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Any union leader who endorses Andrew Cuomo, a known & unrepentant sexual harasser, will be telling members that your union doesn't care about their civil rights.
Unions are supposed to fight sexual misconduct in the workplace, not endorse it.
Unions are supposed to fight sexual misconduct in the workplace, not endorse it.
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Between this and the Columbia stuff I hope everyone understands that when you compromise with fascists the result is the same.
The only difference in the end is, they got you to contribute to the project of your own annihilation
The only difference in the end is, they got you to contribute to the project of your own annihilation
So am I understanding correctly that the GOP threatened to defund DC of its own money if they didn't tear up the BLM thing
And then DC tore up the BLM thing
And now the GOP is defunding them anyway
And then DC tore up the BLM thing
And now the GOP is defunding them anyway
March 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Between this and the Columbia stuff I hope everyone understands that when you compromise with fascists the result is the same.
The only difference in the end is, they got you to contribute to the project of your own annihilation
The only difference in the end is, they got you to contribute to the project of your own annihilation
Everything sucks right now—except this Alabama roofer who told ICE agents "wanna arrest me? come get me, I'll wait" and waited 6 hours without water in the hot sun until ICE ~gave up and left~ because they were too chickenshit to climb up on a one-story roof www.tiktok.com/@jaxxchismet...
Roofer in Alabama evades Immigration Agents #roofer #alabama #immigrant #immigration #roof #construction
TikTok video by Jaxx🇵🇷
www.tiktok.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Everything sucks right now—except this Alabama roofer who told ICE agents "wanna arrest me? come get me, I'll wait" and waited 6 hours without water in the hot sun until ICE ~gave up and left~ because they were too chickenshit to climb up on a one-story roof www.tiktok.com/@jaxxchismet...
Any union leader who endorses Andrew Cuomo, a known & unrepentant sexual harasser, will be telling members that your union doesn't care about their civil rights.
Unions are supposed to fight sexual misconduct in the workplace, not endorse it.
Unions are supposed to fight sexual misconduct in the workplace, not endorse it.
February 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Any union leader who endorses Andrew Cuomo, a known & unrepentant sexual harasser, will be telling members that your union doesn't care about their civil rights.
Unions are supposed to fight sexual misconduct in the workplace, not endorse it.
Unions are supposed to fight sexual misconduct in the workplace, not endorse it.
While people’s desire to defend DEI is well-intentioned, let’s be real: most corporate DEI “efforts” are just window dressing—which is especially harmful when they conceal these same corporations’ racialized exploitation of workers/consumers.
If you want equity in your workplace, unionize.
If you want equity in your workplace, unionize.
February 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
While people’s desire to defend DEI is well-intentioned, let’s be real: most corporate DEI “efforts” are just window dressing—which is especially harmful when they conceal these same corporations’ racialized exploitation of workers/consumers.
If you want equity in your workplace, unionize.
If you want equity in your workplace, unionize.
~two things can be true~
1. The NLRB has never been the source of our power: workers are.
2. If the NLRB didn't matter, Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to fuck it up.
1. The NLRB has never been the source of our power: workers are.
2. If the NLRB didn't matter, Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to fuck it up.
January 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
~two things can be true~
1. The NLRB has never been the source of our power: workers are.
2. If the NLRB didn't matter, Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to fuck it up.
1. The NLRB has never been the source of our power: workers are.
2. If the NLRB didn't matter, Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to fuck it up.
Looking forward to processing the dystopian hellscape for workers we now live in with @veenadubal.bsky.social & @daveyseligman.bsky.social this Friday!
January 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Looking forward to processing the dystopian hellscape for workers we now live in with @veenadubal.bsky.social & @daveyseligman.bsky.social this Friday!
I didn’t feel the Boston earthquake because I was in the basement of the Sheet Metal Workers Union hall—that’s how solid union constructed buildings are 💪
January 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I didn’t feel the Boston earthquake because I was in the basement of the Sheet Metal Workers Union hall—that’s how solid union constructed buildings are 💪
huge football day for me as a hater (specifically of Ohio State & USC)
December 1, 2024 at 12:34 AM
huge football day for me as a hater (specifically of Ohio State & USC)
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🧵 Abortion funds are going broke.
Meanwhile, in the last 5 years about $400 million in federal money flowed to “crisis pregnancy centers” across the country
Meanwhile, in the last 5 years about $400 million in federal money flowed to “crisis pregnancy centers” across the country
It's harder to pay and travel for abortion care, and support funds are struggling
Financial aid funds that help women pay for abortions — or travel to other states to access care — are struggling financially, despite abortion's role in this year's elections.
www.npr.org
November 14, 2024 at 2:11 PM
🧵 Abortion funds are going broke.
Meanwhile, in the last 5 years about $400 million in federal money flowed to “crisis pregnancy centers” across the country
Meanwhile, in the last 5 years about $400 million in federal money flowed to “crisis pregnancy centers” across the country
There's no way Michigan was even in play without UAW—same for Nevada & Arizona without UNITE HERE.
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Dems failing unions yet again by not acting on NLRB nominees is at their own peril. We'll still be here without you, but you won't survive without us.
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Dems failing unions yet again by not acting on NLRB nominees is at their own peril. We'll still be here without you, but you won't survive without us.
November 12, 2024 at 4:52 PM
There's no way Michigan was even in play without UAW—same for Nevada & Arizona without UNITE HERE.
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Dems failing unions yet again by not acting on NLRB nominees is at their own peril. We'll still be here without you, but you won't survive without us.
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Dems failing unions yet again by not acting on NLRB nominees is at their own peril. We'll still be here without you, but you won't survive without us.