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WE HAVE WON OUR UNION WITH 97% VOTING YES!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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So we either go to campus and we die or we don't go to campus and we get deported. This is what things have come to for international students in this country.
#AbolishICE
This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester.
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1500 cards signed on the first day!!!!
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We have reached a TA!! Starting July 1, the base stipend will be $47k, with a $1k signing bonus upon contract ratification. This is an enormous win for grad workers. Join us at the next general membership meeting to learn more: 💪💪💪
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After thousands of grad student workers at JHU have joined our union, today we sent a letter to the university requesting they voluntarily recognize us! Should they fail to do so, we’ll file our petition with the NLRB and move forward with the process.
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We've officially at a majority of students who have signed their union cards!! Pass along the good news, and tell your colleagues to sign if they haven't already ✊
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Today we submitted over 2,000 cards to the NLRB to call for a union election. We are excited about the opportunity to vote YES for our union this spring and ensure we have a voice in our working conditions!
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LETS GO!!!
NEW: 3,335 grad workers at Johns Hopkins University are unionizing with
@ueunion
as
@TRUhopkins
. This is the 4th largest NLRB election filing this year.
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Today, JHU declined to recognize us. We’re excited to demonstrate our majority at the polls when we vote union yes!
After thousands of grad student workers at JHU have joined our union, today we sent a letter to the university requesting they voluntarily recognize us! Should they fail to do so, we’ll file our petition with the NLRB and move forward with the process.
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According to the Department of Energy, graduate student stipend rates should now *begin* at $45k, "excluding benefits"
This means the federal government has set a floor for graduate student stipends that is more than $10k higher than what most JHU grads currently receive
DOE Office of Science recommends a grad student living wage of $45k in the most recent guidance
"For graduate students, SC considers a reasonable living wage to be an annual income of $45,000, excluding benefits."
see, e.g.,
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@JohnsHopkins
says that termination, discrimination, and sexual assault are academic matters and don't deserve protections in a contract. We demand better.
#NotSafeatJHU
#MyRightsMyContract
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In-person classes/activities suspended until at least Friday because 30 students tested positive for COVID. Likely infected due to off-campus partying.
@JohnsHopkins
remind us why we reopened?
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Thank you to everyone who's stood and continues to stand in solidarity with us! Thanks to our organizers' hard work, *all* Hopkins grad students have a brilliant future ahead in which they will truly have a seat at the table✊
Next stop: contract!!😎
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WE HAVE A CONTRACT!!!⚡ ⚡ ⚡
We ratified our tentative agreement, with 1754 graduate workers voting and a 99.5% yes margin! We officially have a contract! 🧵
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Today's the day!! Polls open at 9am on Homewood, East Baltimore and DC for our election!! As a reminder, masks are required but an ID is not! 🔥 🔥 🔥
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We are sooooo excited to share our ✨fabulous✨ vote YES collage! All of us are thrilled to finally get the chance to vote for our very own union that will get us the workplace rights and respect we deserve ✊
#TRUvotesYES
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Grad workers just keep winning! You can’t stop this wave 🌊🌊🌊
Updated list of recent grad union elections:
Boston University: 98% yes
Yale: 91% yes
Northwestern: 94% yes
Johns Hopkins: 97% yes
UChicago: 92% yes
Syracuse: 95% yes
UMN: 97% yes
Stanford: 94% yes
+Duke: 88% yes
+Northeastern: 94% yes
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We denounce JHU and the BPD for performing this memorandom and moving ahead with the JHPD. The recent
@CAPH1312
protest showed just how many Hopkins students, faculty, staff, and community affiliates *entirely disagree* with the move to cement the police force
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You know you've gone viral when the MAGA reply guys get anxious and start yelling at "illegal" international students (on F1 visas) to "go home". 🙃
#NoOneIsIllegal
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We have a TA 🎉🎉🎉 Read on for highlights!
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We don’t want a lot for Christmas, just liveable wages and workplace protections!
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In solidarity with University of California workers as they engage in the largest higher education strike in US history!!
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Support comes in all forms! Let's fight for our workers rights together
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JHU Admin are COWARDS! They are trying to block the public from seeing our picket by parking a bus infront of this. This will not deter us, and we will not stop fighting for a fair contract. We are TRU!
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Hopkins recently announced that hundreds of grad students are getting raises. The base stipend has been raised, but the new KSAS minimum of $34k is still $6k under Baltimore's COLA. It's the first of our union wins, but it's clearly not enough. Just look at everyone else...
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We’re now at 1800 cards signed!! 🥳🥳 Have you signed yours yet?
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Excellent thread on the recent
@SW_Columbia
win and why it's super important. What they did truly *does* raise the bar for ALL universities employing grad workers. Take a look, and thank Columbia's grad workers for all the hard work they did over the past few months✊🥳
1/n Last week,
@SW_Columbia
reached a tentative agreement for their contract with Columbia University. While graduate workers at Columbia still have to vote on their final contract, they won amazing contract provisions that are raise the standards for graduate workers everywhere.
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IT’S OFFICIAL: our union election will be Monday, January 30 & Tuesday, January 31!! 🎉🗳️ Join your fellow grad workers like Martin and pledge to vote YES ✅ for a living wage:
#TRUvotesYES
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It's happening!! Sign your union card now and join us at Keyser Quad at noon for a rally for fair wages!
@ueunion
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Proud to have several TRU-UE members protesting Netanyahu’s visit and calling for a ceasefire!! This is international worker solidarity ✊🍉
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Exciting news!
@MITGradUnion
just won a powerful tentative agreement for their first union contract; highlights include a 5.4% raise this year, a nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedure, and union security.
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What does our bargaining committee do during breaks? Will B prepares to speak at a rally in DC tonight on behalf of UE Locals 506 and 618 💪🚂
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Let's talk after you disband your private police force plans.
"This is not just an issue for African Americans; it is an issue that threatens the future for all Americans." A message from Johns Hopkins University and Medicine leaders:
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URGENT: JHU Faculty have started a petition calling for Ron Daniels to abandon plans for a private police force. This petition is limited to JHU affiliates, alumni, & Baltimore residents *only*. Please sign & RT - the time to act is now!!
#BlackLivesMatter
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If JHU truly wanted to help the Baltimore community, it would have put this money towards renovating abandoned houses in East Baltimore specifically for lower income communities, not tear down these lovely row homes for...another park. Across from a park.
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🧵 At yesterday's bargaining session, admin started by complaining about last week's rally. According to them, "The rally was not authorized. If the union sought permission, it would not have been approved because it was during finals. New sod was damaged by the rally." 🤔
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I don't know who needs to hear this but the CEO of Hopkins Hospital makes over $3 million a year while some grad students still don't have health insurance.
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SO proud to be the fourth-largest unit to file this year, and to be among other esteemed and supportive grad worker units ✊✨
5 largest union filings in 2022:
1. 5,128 MIT grad workers
@MITGradUnion
2. 4,000 Yale grad workers
@33unitehere
3. 3,500 Northwestern grad workrs
@NorthwesternGW
4. 3,335 Johns Hopkins grad workrs
@TRUhopkins
5. tie 3,000 Chicago/Boston grad workrs
@uchicagogsu
@gradworkersofBU
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SOOO MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO
@NorthwesternGW
!! What an incredible win!!
And yes - we're next!!!
The initial count is in...WE WON OUR UNION!!! 93.5% yes. 1644 yes votes to 114 no votes.
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Some of our public health students have signed their cards, including Selena Anjur-Dietrich! After all, unionization is as much about our grad student community's health as it as an individual's ✊
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Congrats
@dukegradunion
for filing! Keeping us grad student unions coming!!
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Our hard work has paid off and we not only won our union but we're setting records!! 💪⚡️
97% of grad workers have voted YES at JHU!!! 🎉⚡️
@TRUhopkins
✊ We believe this to be the highest yes vote total of any grad worker NLRB election!!
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TL;DR
We won $2,500 in relocation assistance for international workers to both move to Hopkins and to pay for initial visa fees. We are still fighting for an additional payment of renewal fees.
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Two of our fantastic organizers, Jasmine & Martin, sat down with
@TheRealNews
to talk about the incredible momentum of our union!
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At this point, every day that
@JohnsHopkins
refuses to dismantle its private police force, it's sending a clear message: It doesn't care about its Black students. Town Halls, "safety" advisory committees and diversity & inclusion initiatives are evasions
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We're excited to announce our newly-revamped TRU logo 🤩
With it, we're proud to announce that we are UE Local 197! We won our union with 97% of grads voting YES. So naturally, we're 197 ✊
Lightning bolts on each side symbolize our solidarity with parent union
@ueunion
⚡
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UMN blowing everyone out of the water with their incredible numbers 🤩 let's frikkin' GO
As our first day comes to a close, we owe you a bit of an update. In a word: incredible.
In only about 12 hours, more than 1,700 graduate workers signed a union card to affirm our demand for fair working conditions at the University of Minnesota.
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If you weren't able to vote yesterday, polls are about to open up this morning!! It's a great day to stand in solidarity with your fellow grad workers! 🔥💪
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But late-stage grad workers will still lose their income, health insurance, not be allowed to work more than 19.9 hours a week in an outside job, have their student loans go into repayment, and have to pay $$$ in late stage tuition?
Asking for some friends.
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There's so much we'd like to change about our working conditions. But we can't do it alone.
That's why we're forming a union: to formally recognize and implement our efforts as a collective unit!
Let us know that you'll vote YES in the election today!
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Many, MANY congratulations to our colleagues
@33unitehere
on their successful election! 2023 is shaping up to be the year of the grad student union!!!
We Won! Grad workers at Yale said overwhelmingly: UNION YES!
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Today we're bargaining over grievance procedures. We brought grad worker voices directly to administration across the table. Read on for a testimonial from an anonymous grad worker about the abuse they faced and how completely inadequate current grievance procedures are:🧵(1/10)
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We just can't stop smiling! We're so proud of our bargaining team and what we've won in our first contract ✊
After nearly a year of negotiations, Teachers and Researchers United (TRU-UE) and Hopkins have reached a tentative agreement set to increase minimum stipends and strengthen employee rights and protections for graduate students.
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Congratulations to our colleagues
@PrincetonGSU
on officially filing for unionization! Solidarity to ALL the grad workers as they continue their fight ✊
re-upping this to say: PGSU has officially filed a petition with the NLRB, making us the final ivy league university to file for grad union recognition! we mean it when we say Princeton is UNION CAMPUS!!!!
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Grad students make the university run, and we deserve a living wage (and to, you know, actually be paid on time). If Hopkins won't listen to us as individuals, then we'll join together as a union.
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You have a right to unionize, despite anything else you're told. Sign your card today to make your voice heard:
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Over 120 people showed up to our first grievance hearing to defend our contract and reiterate that our work is work!
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As unions representing tens of thousands of workers at university campuses across the country, we strongly condemn the use of violent force and disciplinary actions by university administrations against students and workers peacefully protesting
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After reviewing our stipend data, our colleagues
@C_AWDU
proposed revising our analysis using county-level rather metro-area cost-of-living estimates. The adjusted 2021-22 rates look even worse for several schools, especially Columbia. Solidarity to the strikers!
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We stand in solidarity with all the grad workers going on strike in NYC, from NYU to Columbia!
#SolidaritySaturday
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We unequivocally condemn the announcement that international students are at risk of deportation if not enrolled in in-person classes. We thereby issue the following statement of condemnation and what we expect from
@JohnsHopkins
in response.
#AbolishICE
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We've won a TA with a starting stipend of $47k, recognition that our work is work, increased protections from discrimination & harassment and other historic victories!! Even if you were previously a member, you need to sign a new card to be able to vote on our contract.
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Tomorrow at 1, JHU students & affiliates are having a walkout to end the siege on Gaza now 📢 While this is not a TRU event, many of our members will participate in this important event. So far, over 6k bombs have dropped on Gaza, massacring thousands. The time for peace is NOW.
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We're standing in solidarity with
@MITGradUnion
as they make their voices heard around their contract negotiations!
Thanks to UE staffer Katie Shy for the photo✨
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Thanks to the Suez Canal, we bring to you some grad student memes! Check them out throughout the day, and spread and use as you wish! 🚢
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This is unacceptable from the institution that has over $9b in its endowment. We shouldn't have to apply for emergency funding in the first place, but to tell an employee they should just go to the food pantry is abhorrent behavior
Hopkins has said some wild shit in my time here but tell me why they denied my application for emergency funding with a suggestion to go to the food pantry??? Like y’all could just pay me more???
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Check out the rad union-made food products for Memorial Day plans 👇
If you're curious about produce/wine,
@UFWupdates
has an excellent list of unionized farms and industries:
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The TRU Coordinating Committee condemns and is deeply troubled by the recent dismissal of several graduate students from programs at Johns Hopkins. We are especially disappointed (but not surprised) by recent expulsions from the counseling Master’s program. 1/
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Look at these fabulous organizers and their smiles after signing their union cards! Don't you just love to see it!
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We did it!!!!!!
Hopkins: *has contracts with ICE*
Everyone else: STOP
Hopkins:
Everyone else: STOP
Hopkins: y tho
Everyone else: STOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOP
Hopkins: ok but not because you said so
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We’re hearing from students across grad programs and departments who were paid $0 today instead of their usual paycheck. This is, of course, completely unacceptable. We are looking into how widespread the issue is and next steps to get everyone paid in a timely manner.
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Standing in solidarity with
@MITGradUnion
in their election today and tomorrow ✊🏼 You deserve to have your voice heard and your employee rights adhered to!
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Protest works! Unionizing works! Congratulations to all the food service workers who fought hard to get their basic due. We're not going to forget, though,
@JohnsHopkins
continued role in targeting the most vulnerable workers while making financial decisions without any oversight
Victory for furloughed food service workers, as
@UHLocal7
announces that
@JohnsHopkins
WILL give them equivalent of 4 weeks pay to help then thru the
#COVID
ー19 pandemic.
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They're stockpiling $$$ to show JHU is powerful or something. But true power comes from the workers that help bring in that wealth. We workers deserve fair compensation and benefits for all the labor we've performed bringing in that ~$3.5b.
Johns Hopkins University's assets grew by ~$3.5 billion in 2021, after they took austerity measures to cut faculty benefits , avoided assisting students who face delays due to covid, and as they continue to pay graduate students below peer institutions.
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Hey
@BmoreSenators
! Listen to SB276! We're ready to end this private police force once and for all, for the safety of ALL Baltimore residents!
#NoHopkinsPolice
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Amazing to see unionization efforts popping up across all areas of university life! Solidarity to our NTT colleagues at Harvard ✊
We’re proud to announce the campaign to unionize non-tenure-track faculty and researchers within Harvard University—we are Harvard Academic Workers - UAW! We unite ~6000 workers across all 12 Harvard schools. 🧵
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✨BREAKING NEWS!✨ The votes are in: we have voted to ratify our first constitution with a 97% margin! Thanks to everyone who helped draft and ratify this important document--this is foundational for securing our union's future.
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Two grad students walk into a bar. They work behind the counter, pouring drafts coming up with new mixed drinks. After 5 years the bar owner tells them that to keep working there /they/ have to start paying /the bar/ for tuition& health care. Oh and also that they're not workers.
Two academics walk into a bar. They bring their own drinks, pay $5000, and leave feeling proud and ashamed of propagating a massively profitable academic publishing industry increasingly fuelled by exorbitant article processing fees under the guise of open scholarship ideals.
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Today, we stand with standing with
@NorthwesternGW
,
@uchicagogsu
,
@GOLDartmouth
,
@MITGradUnion
, and
@StanfordGWU
to demand union shop from *all* UE's on-going grad student contract negotiations ✊ We're standing together to say: no shop, no contract!
#UnionShopForUnionPower
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Happy Halloween! You know what is really scary? Pay that hasn’t kept up with rising costs of living. Fortunately, you can help to combat that by signing your union card today!
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Black Lives Matter. Hopkins never got the memo.
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Hopkins has helped manufacture - and often power - Baltimore's housing crisis. It's simultaneously infuriating and astounding how little they realize or care about the city's residents
I imagine to people who come to Baltimore (especially Hopkins student parents) these vacants confirm a negative sense of the city. Few realize these were liveable buildings until Hopkins bought them up, displaced people, sat on them (some for decades), and let them crumble
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SHAME ON
@JohnsHopkins
, you do NOT get to lay-off workers like this. We stand in solidarity with every single one of you!
#MayDay2020
#HigherEdWorksBecauseWeDo
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We've got 1500 cards signed so far and we're not stopping! Graduate students deserve a living wage. Show your support for us here:
Johns Hopkins graduate student workers rally for fair wages, start union card campaign
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MICA students are starting a petition to demand that MICA pledge never to create a private police force, pressure Hopkins to drop their efforts, and demand justice for all victims of police brutality
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Welcome to grad student unionizing,
@umnglu
! We're proud to stand in solidarity with you as you move towards formal recognition ✊
The moment you’ve been waiting for is finally here! Graduate workers at the University of Minnesota are signing cards in support of unionizing because we know we are stronger together–and that the U works because WE do! Learn more at
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Hopkins admin threatening to institute an ID check in Garland and "escort any non-affiliate to where they need to go."
A clear intimidation tactic that is meant to *build walls* between Hopkins and other community members.
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Not bad for a small, scrappy group of students.
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Solidarity with Baltimore Starbucks as they organize their union! ✊✊✊
We take pride in our work, and work should take pride in us. We’re organizing a union to create a true culture of warmth & belonging at our store. Let’s go Baltimore, MD! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
@WorkersUnitedMA
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Our view on this is similar to others: Hopkins succumbed to pressure, including that of the
@TheGarlandSitIn
. At the same time, this is a delaying tactic. It's not over until the private police force is cancelled forever. We don't plan to stop organizing.
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So proud of what we have accomplished together!!
The wave of worker organizing in academia is truly unstoppable. Amazing work by these organizers, you love to see it!
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Standing in solidarity with the northeast's newest grad student union! ✊✊✊
We are proud to publicly announce the MIT Graduate Student Union! MIT grad student-workers are unionizing to create a healthy and fair working and learning environment for all, by giving us a voice in the decisions that affect us. (1/4)
#MITGSU
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It's Day 1 of our
#HopkinsCanAffordIt
campaign! Every day, for the next 7 days, we will be posting *choice* numbers which make it clear that a) JHU can afford to provide funding extensions & avoid furloughs/layoffs b) current austerity measures are unfair & unequally implemented
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Following the university illegally implementing novel work requirements that specifically do not consider our research as work, we have filed an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB.
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Congrats and welcome to the grad worker union family!! 💪💪💪
WE WON! This week, over 2000 Penn grad workers cast ballots. After eligible votes were tallied, the final count was 1807 to 97. It's official. The majority of eligible voters turned out to the polls. Penn graduate workers have resoundingly declared: WE WANT A UNION AT PENN!
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We're standing in solidarity with these workers, both physically and metaphorically! ✊
Out here supporting Unite Here Local 7 workers in their contract fight with my employer - for a fair contract for all food service workers at JHU!
#1U
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