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📣Press Release: After Grueling Campaign, The Bronx Defenders Union–UAW Local 2325 Ratifies Historic Contract
"'It took each and every
@bronxdefenders
worker to make this contract possible,' said Babatunde Aremu, Chapter Chair of BxD Union."
📎:
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After 17 hours of bargaining, at 2:20 am, the BxD Union Collective Bargaining Committee and BxD Management reached a tentative agreement. 🧵(1/3)
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On October 20, 2023, an overwhelming majority of The Bronx Defenders Union - UAW Local 2325 voted in favor of releasing the following statement in support of Palestinians.
Link to statement here: .
#FreePalestine
#Gaza
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We did it. We officially ratified our first contract w/
@BronxDefenders
by 165-36 votes & 79% union membership participation!
This moment carries extra significance for us as our organization’s founding in 1997 undermined
@alaa2325
bargaining efforts. That chapter is now CLOSED.
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📣BxD Union Announces Results of Historic Strike Authorization Vote 📣
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Today, The Bronx Defenders Union-UAW Local 2325 voted to release this statement condemning repression of pro-Palestine speech, calling for charges against protesters to be dropped, and reaffirming our commitment to Palestinian liberation. Read it @ (1/2)
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We are thrilled to announce that we have officially been recognized as the BxD Union with
@alaa2325
. Thank you to all BxD employees, past and present, that fought to make this happen. There is power in numbers!
#unionstrong
#BxDStandsTogether
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We're excited about formally announcing our Unionizing Efforts!!! Check out our press release below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
#BxDUnion
#BxDStandsTogether
#UAW
#UnionStrong
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📢Press Release: The Bronx Defenders Union Announces Unlimited Unfair Labor Practice Strike Beginning Week of July 22, 2024 📢
🔗 Read the press release in full at
📷:
@MichaelLetwin
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We’ll share more later, but, as a preview, we secured:
✅ 8-10% salary increases
✅ A 2-year contract term with the right to strike for wages after 1 year in line with
@alaa2325
sectoral bargaining
✅ A fair, flexible telecommuting policy
✅ A free speech provision (2/3)
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📣 Approximately 200 people (yes we counted!!) turned out for today’s picket. 📣 🧵 1/
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Why have we authorized an unlimited strike beginning July 22nd? To win a fair contract: a contract that ensures we can effectively defend the people of the Bronx. Our demands address high attrition by providing for fair pay, a 1-year term, and sustainable working conditions.
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The
@BronxDefenders
management is proposing an inflexible in-office policy...but our office is falling apart. BxD’s workers deserve better, and so do the people we defend. That's why we're holding a strike authorization vote: to redefine our working conditions.
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The Bronx Defenders Union - UAW Local 2325 heeds the call of Palestinian trade unions (
@WorkersinPales1
) to end all complicity w/ Israeli occupation.
We do not consent!
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📢 Our contract has been ratified by our membership!
Today, with 92% participation, 91% of voting members opted to ratify our 2024-26 contract with a 1-year salary reopener.
This contract is the result of the collective effort of all of our members. We're ready for 2025 & 2026!
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As immigration attorneys, advocates, & social workers who represent & work with people incarcerated by ICE at the Hudson County Jail, we oppose the extension of the
@HudCoTweet
contract with ICE & demand
@TomDeGise
rescind the contract immediately.
#ShutDownHudson
#FreeThemAll
A statement from the
@alaa2325
and
@LegalAid1199
union members at
@LegalAidNYC
and
@BronxDefenders
who represent and serve people detained by ICE at Hudson County Jail
#ShutDownHudson
#FreeThemAll
#ICEfreeNJ
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On July 17, after seventeen hours of grueling negotiations, The Bronx Defenders management and collective bargaining committee reached a tentative agreement.
We saw historic wins in BxD Union’s second contract negotiations, including: (🧵1/)
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The BxD CBC would like to thank our union siblings for the trust they placed in us through this process, our amazing
@alaa2325
organizers, and the community whose support bolstered our resolve. We couldn’t have done it without you all. Solidarity forever. Stay tuned—more to come!
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📢 Press Release: With an Expired Contract and Historic Strike Authorization Vote, The Bronx Defenders Union Prepares for Imminent Strike 📢
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🚨🚨BxD Union needs your help!🚨🚨
🔎Can you help us find these missing
@BronxDefenders
executives?
🤔They’ve been absent from almost every bargaining session since March, slowing down negotiations.
🗓️We bargain again on Mon. 6/10. Check back in then to see who shows up!
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The
@bronxdefenders
is proposing a rigid hybrid work policy that would even require permission to work from home after spending the day at Rikers. We asked parents & caregivers how this change would affect their families. Their answers were clear: they will have to leave BxD.
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👀The lowest-paid workers at
@BronxDefenders
earn $52,343 annually—almost $17,000 less than a living wage for NYC. Meanwhile, in 2022, BxD’s Executive Director compensation was $339,051.
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🪧Join BxD Union tomorrow for our final practice picket before our strike deadline of Monday, July 22nd! The picket will take place during bargaining. Let's make sure BxD Management can hear us!
🗓️ Wednesday, July 17
⏰ 1 p.m.
📍 161st & Courtlandt
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Yesterday, 100+ of our members attended our first open bargaining session. All of our missing execs showed up—two even stayed the whole time! But they didn’t show up with a salary counterproposal or revised hybrid work policy. Tick tock, mgmt. ⏰ 06/30 is rapidly approaching….
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With 93% participation, 93% of our members authorized our Bargaining Committee to call for a strike if necessary. Today, we became the first of the alternate providers formed after '94 to authorize a strike in 30 years, since
@LASattysunited
went on strike under Guiliani.
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So moved by statement of solidarity by our comrades across the country in
@LApubdefunion
! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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A fair contract will allow
@BronxDefenders
to retain staff, leading to better representation for the people of the Bronx. Yet instead of coming to the table with reasonable offers, Management is prioritizing making plans that will draw out a strike. 🧵(1/4)
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✊ In solidarity, community members have organized this hardship fund for BxD workers, which will make grants to address hardship caused by loss of income during any strike.
🔗
Please share widely!
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🗓️ Mark your calendars! We're holding two practice pickets before our strike launches on July 22nd:
🪧Weds. 7/10, 1pm: Practice picket
🪧Weds. 7/17, 1pm: Practice picket
🪧Mon. 7/22, All day: Strike kickoff picket
Join us at 161st & Courtlandt and call on BxD to bargain fairly!
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👀👀Did you know…
🔴BxD pays its workers less than other offices for the same work?
🔴And mgmt is proposing keeping salaries lower than other NYC PD offices for the coming year?
To invest in the Bx, BxD must invest in its workers. That's why we need a fair contract now!
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Thanks to all who came through for our first practice picket yesterday! We hope to see y'all again next week for our final practice picket before our strike is set to start.
⏰ Tick tock...
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On 7/22, BxD Union is set to go out on an Unfair Labor Practice strike, protesting the numerous ULPs committed by
@BronxDefenders
:
☑️ Failing to provide necessary info
☑️ Engaging in bad faith bargaining
☑️ Unilaterally changing employment terms & conditions
☑️ Retaliation
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ONE YEAR ‼️
BxD delegates at the
@alaa2325
sectoral bargaining convention. A one year contract is a key demand in our ongoing contract negotiations, so we’ll align with our ALAA siblings whose contracts expire in 2025 and our salaries don’t fall behind. Solidarity forever ❤️🔥✊
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Btw we changed our logo! Workshopped by BxD union members and our amazing
@alaa2325
trustee/
@ABetterNYLAG
member
@flusters
, we wanted to show that we are proudly part of the
@UAW
. Cross shop solidarity forever! Solidarity with our autoworker/grad worker/other industry comrades!✊
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📰Our fight for a fair contract has been featured in the press since we announced the results of our strike authorization vote earlier this month. Our members have made it clear: we don't want to strike, but we will.
All the articles are linked at
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Over the last 2 years, 60% of our membership left
@BronxDefenders
. Attrition this high harms the people we defend, the people of the Bronx, and BxD as a whole. That's why we're fighting for a fair contract.
We know the Bronx deserves better. Why doesn't management agree?
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⏳ Our contract expires June 30th, and
@BronxDefenders
management has failed to recognize who really makes BxD run, who really defends the Bronx, and who really cares about the mission of The Bronx Defenders. 🧵(1/3)
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⏰The clock's ticking. Our contract expires 6/30 &
@BronxDefenders
has refused to bargain in good faith, proposing salaries lower than any other PD office in NYC and attempting to roll back existing benefits.
📢So join BxD Union Weds. 6/12 for a picket to demand a fair contract!
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🤔
@BronxDefenders
says it can't afford to match worker salaries at other PD offices. We wanted to know...where's the money going instead? 🧵(1/5)
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BxD Union: the strike authorization vote is OPEN! 🔊🔊
Vote yes! Let's win a fair contract! 🗳️🗳️🗳️
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While
@bronxdefenders
office is falling apart, Management continues to insist on an inflexible in-person policy. The Union has offered a comprehensive deal, including a reasonable telecommuting policy. It’s up to Management what happens next.
⏰ Tick tock...
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We also call on our employer
@BronxDefenders
, which claims to be committed to "radically transforming" the "justice system," to end its silence regarding this recent wave of violent arrests of protesters, which even peer organizations have condemned. (2/2)
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We were going to live tweet, but mgmt said they wouldn’t bargain with us today if we did! Pretty wild considering we’re 20 days away from contract expiration. Maybe if they don’t want their offensive proposals broadcasted, they should make us better offers. More updates to come.
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On Friday, BxD staff received an "important update on bargaining" from Management, which mischaracterized their offers and engagement with negotiations.
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BxD union siblings!🚨🚨As our contract expiration date approaches, we’ve got several events coming up—check out the calendar here! Looking forward to seeing y’all at an upcoming strike training and at the lunchtime picket! 🪧
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"Up until the last minute, management...has not really been taking seriously the fact that the contract was going to expire...It’s forcing us into a position where as much as we don’t want to go on strike...we may need to." Read more @
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📣 TODAY! Join us on the corner of 161 and Courtlandt Avenue from 1-2 PM to demand that BxD management bargain fairly and in good faith. Solidarity forever. See you there! ❤️🔥
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Three of our Bargaining Committee members—all Bronx natives, representing three different practice areas and roles—appeared on
@PDefenselessPod
to discuss bargaining with
@BronxDefenders
and why we are ready to strike. Give it a listen here:
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🚨 BARGAINING UPDATE 🚨 Management came to the table today (after promising a “substantially more equitable salary proposal”) with an offer of a whopping .5% increase from their last offer—still making us the lowest paid PD office in the city by thousands.
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Your move, Bronx Defenders management.
For us, this is only the beginning. 🧵 5/
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200 people demanding that Bronx Defenders’ management come to the bargaining table in good faith. 🤝 🧵2/
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📢📢📢 Call to Action for BxD Alumni!
If you're a former BxDer who wants to better understand what's happening with the Union and how to support, read our statement for alumni @
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✊As BxD workers prepare for an unlimited strike, please consider supporting this strike fund organized by community members in support of BxD workers:
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Our membership has made it very clear: Management cannot intimidate us. Management cannot continue to give us the bare minimum. We are ready to strike.
📸 : Michael Letwin (for photographs of 1994 Legal Aid Society strike)
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Instead of focusing on making BxD's crumbling office a safe, sanitary place to work, Management is busy drafting policies that push out parents and caregivers. That's why, this week, we're voting YES in our strike authorization vote!
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200 people who refuse to stand by while The Bronx Defenders management offers the worst salary and benefits package in the city (compared to their public defense counterparts).📉 🧵 3/
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We don't want to strike, but we will!
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🚨 New Fundraising Page for Strike Hardship Fund!
Community members who've organized a hardship fund for BxD workers launched a new fundraising page:
With our strike set to begin in just over a week, your solidarity is more important than ever!
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Solidarity with our pals at
@ABetterNYLAG
in their fight against management’s oppressive free speech policies in their office. The more they try to silence us, the louder we’ll become!
Today, members took it one step further by filing an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board. As it reads in the statement; “We are committed to fighting this policy until it is retracted in full.” We will not be silenced. 🍉
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200 people who, if an agreement is not reached by our June 30 contract expiration, will be out here— ready to fight and ready to strike. ❤️🔥✊ 🧵 4/
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“The new contract was only the second ever negotiated by the relatively new union—and Espada said members learned a lot from the months of contentious back-and-forth. ‘We’re prepared now more than ever,’ she said.” Read more @
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This week, we're mobilizing to make sure they get the message:
💻 Mon. 6/24 @ 1 p.m. - Final strike training
📥Tues. 6/25, 9 a.m. to Thursday, 6/27, 4 p.m. - STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTE!
🤝Tues. 6/25 @ 5 p.m. - Open bargaining
💪Thurs. 6/27 @ 1 p.m. - All-staff meeting (2/3)
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BxD Union E-Board member Carol Larancuent authored this op-ed about the urgency of ending New York State’s complicity in ICE detention! ❤️🔥❤️🔥
#FreeThemAll
“Biden’s failure to divest from for-profit detention centers...should urge New York leaders to use their constitutional powers to stop state & local facilities from continuing to profit from ICE detention.”
oped via Carol Larancuent of
@BronxDefenders
:
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Absolutely love to see it!! We stand with the
@bds_union
and demand immediate recognition.
#unionstrong
Rank & file staff at Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS) are proud to announce the formation of a BDS Union as a chapter of
@ALAA2325
. A supermajority of staff now call on BDS management to recognize our wall-to-wall union.
#bdsunion
#unionstrong
• Learn more in our press release:
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Taking notes 📝📝📝
🧵In April of this year, over 7,000 UAW members won a record contract at Daimler Truck that included 25% wage increases, job security, and—for the first time ever—profit sharing and cost-of-living adjustments. Perhaps most importantly, the deal ended wage tiers that had divided
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We stand in solidarity w/ our members and comrades protesting this weekend & are proud to be organizing with
@alaa2325
, which is demanding that NYC & state take tangible steps to address discriminatory policing.
#BlacklivesMaters
#JusticeForGeorge
#JusticeforBreonnaTaylor
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The Office of Court Administration's decision to force Public Defenders & Clients to return to in-person appearances for non-emergency criminal court matters is reckless & dangerous. These matters can easily be handled virtually. Our labor won't be used to support OCA's decision!
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Seems like a lot, right? Especially those consultant fees! We compared BxD's spending on consultants to that of LAS and BDS. In 2023:
✔ LAS spent 2% of its expenses on professional services
✔ BDS spent 4% on the same
❓ BxD spent 8% of its expenses on outside consultants (3/5)
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We checked BxD's 2023 tax filings and audited financial statements, which showed BxD had the funding to pay:
💰 $3.1 million in total compensation for 15 officers & directors
💰 $4.6 million on "outside consultants" (2/5)
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Bxd folks—come out today to make a poster for Wednesday’s picket!
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Luckily, some hard-working union members got out their red pens and corrected the record!
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Urge BxD to bargain fairly with Management by using the email tool at
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Link here:
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This is not the client-centered holistic defense model BxD claims to have innovated.
We know the Bronx deserves better. Why doesn't Management agree? (4/4)
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🍉 Free speech protections for workers expressing political, religious, social or economic beliefs outside the workplace
(🧵6/)
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💰Additional step increases for employees impacted by incarceration, deportation, and family policing systems as well as employees who demonstrate fluency in another language
💰Minimum 3% cost of living adjustment
(🧵3/)
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Bargaining comm. put in a request for info about BxD’s finances weeks ago that has been met w/ silence. Mgmt can’t claim they have a wildly different financial situation than other providers and refuse to prove it.
Their explanation so far? “Our budget is what our budget is.”
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🤨 BxD is far outspending peer organizations on consultant fees, but claims it can't afford to pay workers competitively. (4/5)
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Last night at the
#FTP4
march the people of the Bronx were brutally beaten/arrested simply for marching. This was a planned attack on the Bronx against those demanding better for their community. Love to all affected by the disgusting actions taken by the NYPD
@TakeBackTheBX
#FTP
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📣📣📣 To invest in the Bronx, BxD must invest in its workers, not just the bosses and expensive consultants. We demand a fair contract NOW!
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🪧 A 2 year contract guaranteeing the right to strike for wages in one year and joining the ALAA UAW 2325 sectoral bargaining campaign with 2,000 workers across 12 units
💰8-10% salary increases
(🧵2/)
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With these incredible contract gains, the BxD CBC has unanimously recommended staff vote YES to contract ratification. The vote is open from today, 7/25 @ 9 am until tomorrow, 7/26 @ 5 pm. Check your personal emails for ballot! Reach out if you have not received one (🧵7/7)
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Tomorrow we join our fellow public defenders across the nation in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. We hope to continue honoring the many Black lives lost to police violence and centering the responsibility we as public defenders have to fight against systemic racism
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We stand in solidarity with
@hworksunion
workers who have gone through an almost year long campaign of union busting by Housing Works management.
#FixHousingWorks
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💰An increased longevity bonus after the third year at BxD, and a new longevity bonus after the eighth year
🏡 A telecommuting policy that prioritizes worker discretion to control hours working from home and working in office to best support client needs
(🧵4/)
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⚖️ Supervisory support handling case coverage when out sick
😷 Health/safety protections informing workers of immed. health/safety risks, ventilation standards, + an OSHA plan within 90 days of ratification
🚨 Written/posted notice of BxD’s electronic surveillance policies (🧵5/)
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We stand in solidarity with
@QueensDefenders
union siblings and
@alaa2325
. Reinstate their jobs now and honor the right to union activities.
#QDUnionStrong
#1U
#UnionStrong
#DefendDemocracy
#QueensDefenders
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Board Chair Earl Ward has been complicit in pandering to the far right-wing Trump appointees in DC and continues to deny workers their right to a fair union election.
Enough is enough.
@hworksunion
#FixHousingWorks
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These plans include attempting to triage BxD's enormous caseload by relying on horizontal representation—meaning Bx community members facing prosecution will have a different lawyer for each and every court appearance. (2/4)
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eyo
@ACLUaz
when y’all gonna recognize
@acluaz_united
? 👀⏳
‼️‼️BREAKING NEWS‼️‼️ ACLU Arizona United informed ACLU-AZ leadership that a supermajority of staff have signed union cards. We are thrilled to join
@NOLSW2320
& are confident
@ACLUaz
will voluntarily recognize us, so we can negotiate our first contract in good faith!
#1u
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🚨 REACH OUT TO YOUR BARGAINING COMMITTEE REP IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS BEFORE OUTWARDLY VOTING NO. 🚨 We are here for you! We will talk through anything! Solidarity forever!
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