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📚✊ It's official! Workers at The Center for Fiction have won union recognition with RWDSU! From booksellers to baristas, workers stood together for a voice at work. A new chapter begins!

www.rwdsu.org/news/center-...

#UnionStrong #BookstoreWorkers #UnionYES #BookstoreUnion

We’re rallying @reiunion stores during the biggest sale of the year to send a message to new CEO Mary Beth Laughton that enough is enough REI’s years and years long union busting is not what coop members want. Tell REI! Send a letter today: www.ourrei.com/letter #faircontractNOW

All the news that's fit to print...OUT NOW! The May 2025 edition of the RWDSU Record is HERE, take a look at rwdsu.org/newspaper and make sure you get it right in your inbox by signing up: rwdsu.org/newrecord

Workers of Color are Under-Scheduled 64% of workers of color report working 20 hours or less per week. Only 38% of white workers report the same. From the report "REI Workers Speak Out." http://bit.ly/REIWorkersSpeakOut

REI sells inclusion. Workers say they’re being shut out.

⏱️ 64% of #workers of color report being stuck with 20 hours or less per week.

📖 Read the full report: bit.ly/REIWorkersSpeakOut

#REIUnion #REIWorkersSpeakOut #OptOutside

@rwdsu.bsky.social @reiunion.bsky.social

On May 10, #union members came together to #StampOutHunger, the nation’s largest single-day food collection effort. Led by NALC, we all once again demonstrated the power of collective action. Read more about the day and @local338.bsky.social’s efforts: www.rwdsu.org/news/local-3...

With the NJ Democratic primary just around the corner, union members across the state are stepping up to make sure their voices are heard at the ballot box. RWDSU Local 108 recently hit the road, visiting worksites. Learn more about their voter registration work: www.rwdsu.org/news/local-1...

REI Workers Speak Out: Racial Discrimination, Inequity, and the Fight for a Fair Workplace http://bit.ly/REIWorkersSpeakOut Three REI workers participate in a union action. One holds a sign reading: We Stand with the REI Union: Fair Contract Now!

New report: @reiunion.bsky.social #workers speak out on racial discrimination & inequity.

📊 47% saw or experienced racism.

✊🏽 They’re organizing for change.

📖 bit.ly/REIWorkersSpeakOut

#REIUnion #REIWorkersSpeakOut #OptOutside

In a powerful step forward for worker justice in the South, nursing home workers at Diversicare Pell City in Alabama have voted overwhelmingly to join the RWDSU, winning their union election and their seat at the table. www.rwdsu.org/news/diversi... #UnionYes #unionstrong

WE DID IT! We won REI's board election!! REI just confirmed the news in their annual member meeting, and we couldn’t be more thrilled and empowered! This victory is a massive step forward for our movement and for the future of our Co-op.

May is important to all Labor Unions around the world, as we commemorate worker gains during May Day, but it’s particularly special to the RWDSU. In May 1937, the RWDSU was originally chartered. Take a closer look at the article from the Times Union on May 20, 1937: www.rwdsu.org/news/1937-ti...

RWDSU members gather in Foley Square, Lower Manhattan for a May Day rally and march with signs and banners dressed in union shirts.

#TBT to last week #MayDay when in New York City, RWDSU members from across our local unions marched with tens of thousands in Lower Manhattan to send a message to the billionaires who are threatening our rights and freedoms. Read more: www.rwdsu.org/news/may-day...

RWDSU Local 1102 members who work at NYC Animal Care Centers celebrate new 3-year contract outside a workplace.

RWDSU Local 1102 members at Animal Care Centers of NYC — on the front lines of caring for the city’s most vulnerable pets and strays — have won a new 3yr union contract that reflects their essential work and unwavering compassion. #1U Read more:
www.rwdsu.org/news/acc-110...

Borden’s Dairy workers gather outside the Tennessee facility in front of delivery trucks.

Two Borden’s Dairy plants united for one strong new 3-year contract, proving that what it means to be in a #union goes well beyond the pages of a contract! Read more about this VICTORY: www.rwdsu.org/news/bordens...

385 U.S. workers die each day from hazardous working conditions. In 2023, 5,283 working people were killed on the job and an estimated 135,304 died from occupational diseases | AFL-CIO

Our 2025 Death on the Job report is here.

We found that 385 U.S. workers die EACH DAY from hazardous working conditions in the most recent data.

A safe workplace is a right, and we’ll keep fighting to make that a reality. aflcio.org/reports/dotj...

-Greenlight Bookstore/Yours Truly, Brooklyn, RWDSU

-Barnes & Noble (Union Square, Upper West Side, Park Slope, & Bloomington, IL), RWDSU

United and organized, workers are setting the industry standard in bookselling!

an RWDSU bookshelf graphic with text: “Shop NYC Union Bookstores! Greenlight Bookstore Housing Works Bookstore Book Culture McNally Jackson Booksellers Barnes & Noble Park Slope Barnes & Noble Union Square Barnes & Noble Upper West Side Strand Bookstore”

On #WorldBookDay, we’re celebrating the collective power of unionized booksellers!

In just the last six months, workers have ratified strong new union contracts at:

-Strand Bookstore, @uaw.org 2179
-Book Culture, RWDSU
-McNally Jackson/Goods for the Study, RWDSU

Shoutout to our coworker Ashley from REI Greensboro for reminding us how much power we have when we leverage our collective voice!

Wondering how you can help us as an REI member? Head to votenorei.com and vote NO on this year's Board of Directors candidates this week!

LISTEN: Ashley Hamilton, @reiunion.bsky.social Greensboro, recently joined Heartland Labor Forum to discuss the fight for a first contract at REI!

REI members who spent $10+ last year can support unionized workers by visiting votenorei.com and withholding your vote from REI’s Board candidates.

a black and white photo of Tuffy the Cat wearing a “TUFFY ON STRIKE” sign as the cat is carried on the CBL picket line alongside a color candid photo of a striking REI ski shop worker wearing a “yes, this is a picket line” sign and smiling at Kuma the Little Black Pug.

Happy #NationalPetDay to all our furry union pals! Featured here are two iconic union pets: Tuffy the cat, who famously joined the CBL worker picket line in March 1989, and Kuma the Little Black Pug, who stopped to support striking REI Union SoHo ski shop workers on the picket line in December 2024.

With their unions, @steelworkers.bsky.social members at UP Health System – Marquette, @rwdsu.bsky.social members at Barnes & Nobles, & @iatse.bsky.social members at Children’s Theatre Company negotiated to improve health & safety. Learn about the union difference: www.dpeaflcio.org/professional...

a screenshot from the movie The Devil Wears Prada; in the top panel, one character asks the other “Are you wearing the—” and in the bottom panel is an RWDSU member wearing a red RWDSU tshirt with Cheez-Its on it and the caption “The Cheez-It union drip? Yeah, I am.”

ICYMI: the workers who make Cheez-It crackers for Kellanova out of Kansas City, Kansas recently ratified a new contract! RWDSU Local 184-L members have some of the most enviable @uniondrip.bsky.social in the game.

For more details: www.rwdsu.org/news/kellano...

YouTube video by Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (DPE) A Barnes & Noble Senior Bookseller Discusses Winning a Union at Their NYC Store

DYK Barnes & Noble employees recently formed a union with @rwdsu.bsky.social. Watch our interview with an employee who was involved in the organizing campaign to learn more about what it is like to form a union: youtu.be/sUshTWzlyoU?...

DOGE is a fake government agency that exists to protect the interests of Elon Musk and his billionaire friends.

As @rwdsu.bsky.social President Stuart Appelbaum says, The Department of People Who Work for a Living is here to fight for working people across the country.

white text on a red background attributed to RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum and available at this link: https://www.rwdsu.org/news/rwdsu-statement-federal-worker-eo

Last night, President Donald Trump issued an executive order which stripped more than 75% of all federal workers of their collective bargaining rights. In response, RWDSU President @stunyc.bsky.social issued the following statement: www.rwdsu.org/news/rwdsu-s...

Interested in learning more about forming a union? Check out our interviews with recently organized professionals and then reach out to us at organize@dpeaflcio.org. Here's our most recent interview with Bear, a @rwdsu.bsky.social member at Barnes & Noble: youtu.be/sUshTWzlyoU?...

a photo of workers in red tshirts in Alabama, one woman with her fist raised defiantly in the air, a section from a script that reads “BILLY how can anybody not be romantic about union organizing?” and a photo of workers in RWDSU red tshirts.

How can anybody not be romantic about union organizing? Happy #OpeningDay to the @mlbpa.bsky.social and all the union baseball fans! ⚾

a graphic that says “the Digital RWDSU Record is here!” with a photo of a person holding an iPhone showing the first edition of the RWDSU Record newsletter on the phone.

Hey RWDSU members: the RWDSU Record has officially gone digital! Stay up to date on news from around the union!

Check out the first edition that hit inboxes this morning: www.rwdsu.org/campaigns/vi...

Subscribe to ensure you receive the next edition: www.rwdsu.org/newrecord

📚✊ A new chapter for bookstore workers!

Barnes & Noble workers in New York & Illinois have won their first union contracts with our affiliate @rwdsu.bsky.social securing better wages, job protections & safer workplaces.

🎉 Congratulations on this historic victory for booksellers & baristas!

the members of the Kellanova RWDSU Local 184-L worker bargaining committee, many wearing their union shirts, pose after ratifying a new contract.

CONTRACT VICTORY: congratulations to RWDSU Local 184-L members who work for Kellanova in Kansas City, Kansas on their new three-year agreement! Excitingly, the company has agreed to pick up 95% of the cost of RWDSU healthcare.

Read more contract details: www.rwdsu.org/news/kellanova-contract-2025

If you’re in Brooklyn, head on over to Fort Greene to buy a book or some cute stationery and congratulate Greenlight Bookstore and Yours Truly, Brooklyn workers on their new contract! #ShopUnion