Social workers in Chicagoland organizing for better pay, improved working conditions, & collective liberation for us clients. Not a union but we all need ‘em.
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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!
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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
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Social Service Workers United-Chicago retweeted
12 Jan 2024
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
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Alongside A key vote on .@BringChiHome, there will be a key vote on the proposed #TreatmentNotTrauma working group. We're proud to be a member of .@ccwchicago and a supporter of Treatment Not Trauma! #NoCopsInCrisis #NoPolicingInSocialWork
4 Oct 2023
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
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The .@ccwchicago #TreatmentNotTrauma working group PASSES City Council! #NoCopsInCrisis #NoPolicingInSocialWork
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4 Oct 2023
Approved: news.wttw.com/2023/09/26/hea…
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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
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Social Service Workers United-Chicago retweeted
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!
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Can't make it to .@socialismconf? We'll share highlights from the .@AbolitionistSW panel on abolitionist social work in this thread. #NoCopsInCrisis #NoPolicingInSocialWork
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Tired: blocking social workers concerned with unethical labor practices
Wired: Taking action and emailing the management of .@BraveSpaceChi #1u
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.
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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: 🪡🧵
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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.
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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.
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Social Service Workers United-Chicago retweeted
23 Aug 2023
Is union-busting a progressive value? Follow this thread to learn how to support the Brave Space Alliance Workers Union in their struggle!
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: 🪡🧵
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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
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With workers at .@HBHWorkers and .@BSAworkersunion fighting for a first contract, and .@ccwchicago fighting for #TreatmentNotTrauma there's lots of ways for social service workers to organize locally! Join us this Saturday for August meeting! RSVP at bit.ly/sswuaugust26
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