TRU-UE 197

A new academic year is around the corner, which means it's time to get organizing! We’re holding a week of member trainings each evening (5:30-7:00 PM) from August 18th thru August 22nd. Sessions will cover TRU-UE history, how to organize your co-workers, JHPD, and more. RSVP at buff.ly/t0tKqcK!

Militant Grad Workers Build Union Power to Fight Attacks on Education and Labor In this moment, organized labor can both intervene to defend people and articulate a different vision for higher ed.

Recently, our very own Janvi Madhani took part in a grad labor roundtable discussion by Truthout about the state of the grad labor movement and what we can do to keep up the fight! Check out the article below.

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Come to the TRU-UE GMM TODAY at 6 PM! There will be pizza! 🍕

Tomorrow, members of TRU-UE will be joining the rally in DC to protest cuts to scientific funding. Find out more information here: standupforscience.org/dc-rally/ ✊🧬🔬🧪💪

💪 We showed up. We spoke out. We won’t back down. 💪
Read the article in the Johns Hopkins News-Letter detailing our action last Tuesday! https://buff.ly/4hxrVCZ
TRU members showed the university that we won't allow them to deny us the right to representation, whether they like it or not!

We have our General Membership Meeting next Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 6pm!
This will include a debrief of our emergency Weingarten/CBA protections action on January 28th, and our organizing this semester! Bring your fellow graduate workers so we can advance our union together!

As organized graduate workers, we’ve been committed to the abolition of the JHPD since the plan was announced in 2018. Students, workers, faculty, & neighbors have all been integral to this struggle and continue to organize to prevent the formation of the JHPD. Will you join us?

Join TRU as we gather for a community abolition potluck for an evening of organizing and building community ties! Please RSVP! https://buff.ly/42ie3I9. Let’s work to abolish the Johns Hopkins private police, the JHPD. We build real safety in community!

General Membership Meeting tonight at 6 pm! Come join us in person or on zoom!

Happy New Year! We have our first General Membership Meeting of 2025 next Tuesday, January 14th, at 6 pm! Members, please join us on zoom and in-person! Check your emails for the rsvp link!

Congratulations to the Baltimore Hyatt workers for reaching a Tentative Agreement!

Happy Hour starting now at Ministry of Brewing! Stop by for a drink (alcoholic and/or non-alcoholic) and good vibes 😀

Come to Ministry of Brewing tomorrow, starting at 5:30 pm, to celebrate the end of the semester together!

Join us at 2pm today to show Hopkins that we will not stand for their suppression of our free speech or the militarization of our campus! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/rsvp-surveillance-petition ✊✊✊

Our December GMM is ✨tomorrow at 6pm✨ Join us for pizza, updates on ongoing grievances, and strategizing around payroll issues. You won't want to miss this--RSVP here: tinyurl.com/tru-dec-gmm

Happy TRUsgiving! We’re thankful for all of our members, the strong contract we won, and our Baltimore community ❤️‍🔥 What are you thankful for this #TRUsgiving?

Keep up with us across the internet! You can also find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Threads to stay up to date on all the latest TRU news 👀

Join us to demand the immediate abolition of the JHPD tomorrow (11/20) at 5:30 pm at "The People's Accountability Meeting" at 3001 Remington Ave and bring your friends!

PAB meeting moved to virtual format -- again! Our commitment to the opposition grows stronger the more they try to repress us and we will continue to bring the fight to them.

📢JHU is denying some of our engineering coworkers their promised pay for teaching. We need to stand up for each other to prevent Hopkins from repeating this violation in other departments in the future. Join next Tuesday’s march and sign our petition here! tinyurl.com/heart-heroic-march

Our statement on the 2024 election. Organizing never stops. Solidarity forever ❤️‍🔥

The 2024 US presidential election is over, but EWOC believes we must organize between elections, too. There’s no better time to start building our working class power than now, and here's why: 🧵1/10

A group photo of many SBWU members with their fists raised

Now is the most important time to be organized. Our union was built to fight for people of color, queer workers, our trans siblings, and all marginalized people in our workplaces and our communities. The work continues, and the rank-and-file leaders of our union will never stop fighting for a better future. WORKER POWER is our way to achieve that. And there’s so much power in mutual aid and organizing with our communities. Through our union, we are going to fight together and protect each other - and we WILL win.

The work continues.

Organizing against the JHPD starts with the conversations you have with your friends and colleagues. Join TRU-UE tonight to learn how to have conversations about policing, how it affects our safety, our union, and our community. 💪💪💪 RSVP here: tinyurl.com/tru-jhpd-training

Find out more at trujhu.org and get involved at tinyurl.com/tru-get-involved #TRUisYou #gradworkersrising 💪💪💪

We're making the jump from the Other Site! We're Teachers and Researchers United, the grad worker union at Johns Hopkins University (UE Local 197). After winning our election with 97% of the vote and ratifying one of the strongest contracts in higher ed, we're now fighting to protect our rights.