Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)

6 questions to ask if your boss threatens to offshore your job Offshoring threats are common but damaging to campaigns. Learn how secure the facility is and how important it is to the overall company structure.

6 questions to ask if your boss threatens to offshore your job

Offshoring threats are common but damaging to campaigns. Learn how secure the facility is and how important it is to the overall company structure.

How to organize a retail union Retail workers often face some of the worst trends in employment, but they're uniquely positioned to put pressure on their bosses to get what they deserve.

How to organize a retail union

Retail workers often face some of the worst trends in employment, but they're uniquely positioned to put pressure on their bosses to get what they deserve.

This case, like countless ones before it, is an example of how our civil liberties have been won and defended through many decades of struggle in courts, workplaces, and streets. If you support free speech on your workplace and beyond, join a union.

The ruling makes many references to earlier labor + free speech cases, noting that Red Scare cases expanded the definition of free speech.

But, it remarks, targeting speech critical of a foreign nation "is a new invention that in important ways goes beyond its closest analogues in the Red Scare."

In what the Court called "perhaps the most important [case] to ever fall" within its jurisdiction, it ruled that the 1st Amendment applies to noncitizens & the federal government intentionally violated noncitizens' rights to speech by responding to protest with visa relocations and deportations.

Academic workers from the AAUP and AFT won a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration's actions against noncitizen students and faculty for pro-Palestine speech.

The case underscores the power of unions to resist authoritarianism and shows workers' rights = civil rights = immigrant rights 🧵

Your boss may not be in the top 10%, but that's who he works for.

Meanwhile, we work for ourselves and our families, selling our labor every day for food and rent.

With a union, you and your co-workers stand strong together and fight for the share you deserve.

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Join us on TikTok live for AMA: Labor Organizing 101 September 26 @ 8 p.m. ET with union organizers Zack Frink & Lindsay Sanders Hosted by Victoria Hammett

AMA: Union organizers to help you ACTUALLY start organizing your workplace! 🙌

Bring your questions to Zack Frink and Lindsay Sanders this Friday at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET to get all the insight you need to know into how to make tangible change at your job.

TikTok: @genzforchange

Chicago labor’s fight against child slavery in Côte d’Ivoire

The Brach’s factory closure hit working families in Chicago. To fight back, these families took the struggle from the shop floor and made it international.

How to Defend Members from Politicized Firings Can a worker be fired simply for expressing an opinion that the boss or a political group finds objectionable? These days online attackers often campaign to pressure employers to fire workers for poli...

Union members have additional protections against politicized firings. If you're in a union, see these tips to stay safe. If you're not, talk with us to change that.

Get Support - Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Learn how you and your co-workers can address problems at work. Fill out our form and we'll connect you with organizers to get you the support you need.

If you've read this far and you're thinking "damn, I gotta get one of those union contracts before anyone finds my @" hit us up at workerorganizing.org/support & an organizer will contact you within 48 hrs 🫡

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Does THE CONTRACT say you can be fired because some weirdo sent your boss a tweet they didn't like and threatened to unleash a harassment campaign against your employer if they don't comply?

No? You're good.

Same if your boss finds your posts making fun of his yacht rock band

That's why unions demand 'just cause' or 'due cause' clauses in our contracts: we lay out what you CAN be fired for, plus a process to defend yourself. Anything else doesn't count.

Causes like harassing others, stealing, being incompetent even after training are standard.

(People tend to mix up at-will and right to work, because they're both euphemisms for weakening your power as a worker. ""Right to work"" means people can opt out of paying union dues even when the union is obligated to represent them)

Even under at-will rules, it's illegal to fire you out of discrimination, in retaliation for whistleblowing, etc

But there's a huge loophole: Bosses can pretend they're firing you for *literally any other reason* & it's pretty hard to prove otherwise unless they were *very* dumb

"At will" employment is the default in the US.* That means that unless you have a contract stating otherwise, your boss can fire you "at will" for whatever they want whenever they want.

*Unless you live in Montana, they just banned at-will! 🫡

There's some exceptions--

a woman in glasses is standing in front of a group of people and says you 're all fired . Alt: Liz Lemon standing in front of a group of people and says "You're all fired!"

Can your boss REALLY fire you for innocuous posts they disagree with? That depends on whether you have "just cause" or "due cause" protections--a key provision of union contracts 🧵

How Sugared + Bronzed workers won the first salon chain union in the country When the girls of Sugared + Bronzed — a salon chain specializing in spray tanning and sugaring hair removal — first heard about labor unions, we didn’t expect that workers like us could have a union of our own.

How Sugared + Bronzed workers won the first salon chain union in the country

When the girls of Sugared + Bronzed — a salon chain specializing in spray tanning and sugaring hair removal — first heard about labor unions, we didn’t expect that workers like us could have a union of our own.

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Contextualizing the closure of the NVPU The NVPU, the only union dedicated solely to veterinary support staff, announced its closure last month. Learn more about the details here.

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What are the next steps for the NVPU? The future of the NVPU is unclear and for now, Hughston is referring anyone interested in unionizing in veterinary medicine to the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. “That is a group of volunteers who help groups of employees who want to organize,” she explained. “It teaches them about their rights in the workplace and helps connect workers with unions interested in representing them. So, there are still unions—big unions—out there who want to organize veterinary workers, including ILWU on the West Coast.”

If you're a veterinarian, or in any industry in the U.S., follow the advice of the NVPU: Contact EWOC to start a union in your workplace.

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Labor organizing after the NLRB This is an excerpt from the Independent Organizing Network's Post-NLRB research report on the current legal labor landscape and the threats on the horizon.

What is the current legal landscape for labor? What are the threats on the horizon?

Check out the report from ION to see where we go in a post-NLRB world.

Donate to Support Kickstarter United Workers, organized by Kickstarter United SUPPORT WORKERS FIGHTING FOR A BETTER INDUSTRY STANDARD Kickstarter United, … Kickstarter United needs your support for Support Kickstarter United Workers

This Labor Day, Kickstarter United is asking for your help preparing for a potential workplace action. You can read our full statement and join our efforts to win a fair contract here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ki...