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27 Feb 2024
The latest weekly roundup: Minnesotans are prepping to hit picket lines; @SBWorkersUnited ratchets up pressure on company. mailchi.mp/thestrikewave/wee…
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4 Nov 2024
We are on ULP strike. We gave @nytimes management months of notice of our strike deadline, we made ourselves available around the clock, but the company has decided that our members aren’t worth enough to agree to a fair contract and stop committing unfair labor practices.
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14 Oct 2024
Last fall, UAW put out a call for unions to align their contracts to expire on the same day: May Day, 2028. I looked into the organizing happening in response. My take is that credible sectors of the labor movement are taking this call seriously. workdaymagazine.org/the-call…
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We’re at UCSF, patiently waiting for UC administrators to show up to bargain in good faith. Where are they? #UPTE #UnionStrong
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1 Jun 2024
🗣️LABOR RIGHTS ARE LGBTQ RIGHTS! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
We're springing into Pride this month and honoring the progress that our community has made to get us to where we are today, not only in our campaign but within the greater labor movement as well.
ALT an illustration of multiple flower beds in the color of different pride flags, as well as SBWU logos and flags. text says “spring into pride with SBWU”
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28 May 2024
Hesen Jabr, a nurse at NYU-Langone Hospital, was given an award for her work with bereaved mothers on May 7th. At the awards ceremony, she briefly mentioned Palestine in her remarks. On May 22nd, Jabr's first day back at work following the ceremony, NYU-Langone fired her.
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CIR physicians of @gwuniversity are sick and tired of management’s delays and refuse to sit back and just ask for change. We are united by our solidarity with each other and with our patients, and we will not hesitate to ESCALATE until our demands are met!
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Thank you to @JamaalBowmanNY for joining @GWtweets resident physicians to pump us up before our first union action last week. So grateful for your support and energy as we fight for the contract both GW doctors and our patients deserve!💪💜
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24 May 2024
'Denied': UC fails to get a court order to stop academic workers' strike; union hails decision latimes.com/california/story…
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"This is a David and Goliath fight. Sometimes Goliath wins a battle. But David wins the war. These workers will win their fair share. And we will be there every step of the way to support them."
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1 May 2024
.@UAW President Shawn Fain: "This war is wrong, and this response against students and academic workers, many of them UAW members, is wrong."
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1 May 2024
Labor councils were cornerstones of the mass strikes that built our movement.
We can do it again. Join us and build a strike-ready movement for May 1, 2028. actionnetwork.org/forms/join…
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29 Apr 2024
BREAKING: @IAPE1096 Board of Directors authorizes membership strike vote. "Our members demand stronger collective action." #WeAreWorthmore #WhenWeFightWeWin
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29 Apr 2024
BREAKING: Workers at 5 subcontracted nonunion restaurants in Orlando’s Disney Springs say they feel like “second-class citizens” at Disney and are unionizing with @UniteHere737.
They’ve asked their employer, Delaware North, to agree to a fair process. Story TK @OrlandoWeekly
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18 Apr 2024
Want a weekly update on what’s happening in organizing? Just subscribe to our newsletter. 🫡 thestrikewave.com/newsletter
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16 Apr 2024
WGA members at Sesame Workshop are prepared to strike. 🪧
The unit voted UNANIMOUSLY - with 100% participation - to authorize a strike if management does not reach a fair new contract before their current agreement expires this Friday, April 19.
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15 Apr 2024
🎉CREDIT CARD TIPPING IS FINALLY HERE🗣️‼️
From the very beginning of our campaign in 2021, our union has demanded the ability to tip by card- and now, we're seeing credit card tipping rollout across the country.
CONGRATS to the 10,000 union partners who fought HARD for this ✊
28 Mar 2024
Last month, SBWU and Starbucks announced that we were in discussions to develop a foundational framework for organizing and bargaining.
We're happy to announce workers in affected stores that have previously been withheld benefits will finally have access to them! 🎉✊
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12 Apr 2024
We lead off every newsletter highlighting the fights of striking news and media workers.
They need your support. Donate to the Post-Gazette strike fund and show solidarity is more powerful than the bosses and their lackeys. unionprogress.com/donate/
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9 Apr 2024
IN TODAY'S NEW DIGEST: @UAW poised to make history in campaign to organize South; Amazon continues to fight workers campaigning for union. mailchi.mp/thestrikewave/wee…
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9 Apr 2024
Other highlights: in the past week, RC/RM petitions covering 11,000 workers have been filed, including @UAW petitions covering 5,200 Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama, and 1,000 postdoctoral scholars in Princeton, New Jersey.
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9 Apr 2024
To get organizing and news updates, subscribe today! thestrikewave.com/newsletter
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