Social workers in Chicagoland organizing for better pay, improved working conditions, & collective liberation for us clients. Not a union but we all need ‘em.
We're also now on Mastodon: @SSWUChicago@mastodon.social
If this place collapses, find us there, on insta, via email, or on a picket line!
x.com/SSWUChicago/status/158…
Where else can you find SSWU Chicago?
📸Instagram: @sswuchicago
📩Email: socialserviceworkersunited@gmail.com
🗣️Yelling at the lake: Subject to weather conditions
☕Your fave unionized coffeeshop: Subject to schedule availability
New op-ed @statnews
Black clinical social workers are facing barriers to obtaining licensure at a time when more Black Americans are dying by suicide than before. If we want to prevent Black suicides then we must support alternative paths to licensure
statnews.com/2024/01/11/lcsw…
We're just about underway at today's meeting of the Chicago City Council, where the proposal to hike taxes on the sales of properties worth $1M or more to fight homelessness (AKA “Bring Chicago Home”) is set to clear a key hurdle. Follow along, yes? @wttw
So what's next?
This working group will convene to develop recommendations on how to implement the #TreatmentNotTrauma, which includes:
❤️Re-opening closed CDPH centers
❤️Creating a public, citywide, NON POLICE crisis response
❤️ENDING the police co-responder program
We’re at City Hall this morning for a vote on an ordinance for the creation of a working group on mental health resources to create framework for #TreatmentNotTrauma. We also know the impact mental health has on those experiencing houselessness, it’s time to #BringChicagoHome!
ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL CONTEXT from one of our members: BSA is blocking critics on Instagram instead of engaging with concerns from the public. That ain't right! Take a moment to send an email today.
Good morning! We want to amplify some recent organizing by .@BSAworkersunion, who are fighting for their first contract from the management at .@BraveSpaceChi
Follow along in this thread: 🪡🧵
ADDITIONAL CONTEXT: While @HBHWorkers and @BSAworkersunion were demanding accountability for Unfair Labor Practices & fighting for a good contract, BSA management spent Pride Month schmoozing with HBH Chief Union Buster David Munar. That ain't right.
ALT A screenshot from the BSA Instagram with a group photo of HBH CEO David Munar (second from left) and BSA CEO Channyn Parker (second from right) at a Pride event. This summer, the National Labor Relations Board determined that Howard Brown Health committed 20 Unfair Labor Practices against Howard Brown Health Workers United.
ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL CONTEXT from one of our members: BSA is blocking critics on Instagram instead of engaging with concerns from the public. That ain't right! Take a moment to send an email today.
Good morning! We want to amplify some recent organizing by .@BSAworkersunion, who are fighting for their first contract from the management at .@BraveSpaceChi
Follow along in this thread: 🪡🧵
So, what can you do to support .@BSAworkersunion?
EMAIL:
channyn@bravespacealliance.org
jae@bracespacealliance.org
stephanie@bravespacealliance.org
mariop@bravespacealliance.org
marvin@bracespacealliance.org
board@bravespacealliance.org
#1u#OneJobShouldBeEnough