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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKER’S DAY!!!! i love having a union, i love being a union steward and getting to support my unit. when my union won its contract, i got a pay bump, better benefits, and increased protection as a worker. 🥳 unions help address racial and gender pay gaps, issues workplaces impose on families and those having kids, addressing unsafe conditions, plus things like better health insurance, wages and overtime, weingarten rights to representation, and more!!! if you don’t have a union but are thinking about forming one, check out AFL-CIO’s page (linked) or Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. there’s always more power in a union!! ✊🥖🌹
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YESSS I just signed union papers this week and couldnt be happier!! CWA LOCAL 1000
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happy international worker’s day and congrats on your union win and better benefits!!!
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Love EWOC!! Did some online sessions during the pandemic that got my juices flowing. Happy May Day!
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happy may day marxinista!!! chicago is a paradise because people are Nice, Kind, Cool, and Unionized. dream city!!! I remember hearing all the museum workers talk about union meetings and my heart soared
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@WORLDONFIRE oops idk why i assumed you were in chicago, NYC is lovely but you always gave me chicago vibes (the highest compliment i can think of)
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It’s May Day / International Workers’ Day, and a great reminder that we weren’t put on this planet to work. While most of us are in the position where we have to exchange our time and labor for money, there’s no reason why we can’t demand better pay, benefits, parental leave, safe work environments, and to be treated with respect by our employers. Organizing your workplace and forming a union is one of the best ways to build a collective voice and find strength in numbers so you can begin to lodge grievances and make meaningful changes to how the organization is run and your own quality of life at work. Organizing my former workplace was a thrill, a career highlight, and something that I believe will lead to positive changes for current and future employees. There is currently a wave of cultural and municipal employees organizing in Chicago and across the country, a gorgeous reminder that we deserve more and better from our employers.
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it genuinely is so empowering and makes you feel more protected in your job and you get to be a part of a group caring about and pushing for better working conditions for each other… worker solidarity is veryyy in
Apr 18, 2024
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my union has been in a contract battle since last december and they finally presented the tentative collective bargaining agreement today and it’s more than i ever dreamed it could be :) this shit WORKS!! hell yeah unions!
Nov 25, 2024

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