Empire Justice Center Organized
@ejcorganized
Justice. For Everyone. Opinions from employees not employers.
📢We won our union election on Monday🎉💖 ... and, yes, we are still smiling ear-to-ear about it! Press release below👀👀 @TimesUnion @CapPressRoom @Newsday @RochesterBeacon @DandC @WXXINews @TheBuffaloNews @CityLimitsNews
Every $100 increase in an area’s median rent is associated with a 9% increase in the rate of homelessness, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Breaking: Biden Labor Dept is releasing proposed rule abolishing practice of legally paying people with disabilities a lower "special" wage Records we obtained show employers paying staff as little as 25¢ an hour to sort clothes, 5¢ to cut rags Gift link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Boston University’s endowment is over $3.5 billion.
BU isn't accepting PhD students in humanities this year, blaming the union for requiring PhD students be paid what a full-time McDonalds crew member would make in Boston. insidehighered.com/news/admission…
🚨BREAKING: 400 Doctors in Massachusettes are unionizing with @SEIU.
Billionaires and Corporate America are constantly trying to divide the working class and bust our unions because they know a divided and unorganized working class is easily defeated. Don't fall for the oldest trick in the anti-union playbook.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Just so we’re clear: it’s the hard work of farm workers who keep fresh food on our tables. They’re out there doing the labor that sustains us all. Respect, fair pay, and protection aren’t just nice ideas—they’re what these workers are owed!
The apple harvest in upstate New York is drawing to a close. Over the last 6 to 8 weeks, workers climbed up and down ladders to pick hundreds of apples a day. The apples get sent to nearby packing houses to be sorted, processed and sent to grocery stores. #WeFeedYou
BREAKING: The NLRB has just ruled that captive audience meetings are illegal nationwide. These are mandatory meetings where bosses try to persuade workers not unionize, often using coercive tactics.
I'm so tired of people telling me the economy is fine when I spend nearly all of my waking hours trying to scrape together the resources to keep roofs over the heads of people who, like many of us, were only one missed paycheck away from homelessness.
Remember NYT tech workers are on strike, so it’s a bunch of scabs controlling the needle.
“[R]esearch on the broader benefits of unions shows that public-employee collective bargaining rights come with clear benefits not only for workers but also the general public... ” ☑️☑️☑️ poweratwork.us/the-public-sec… H/t @MrSethHarris
poweratwork.us
The public-sector pay gap is widening. Unions help shrink it.
No one goes into public service to get rich. But as public-sector pay falls farther behind private-sector pay, all of us—not just workers and their families—suffer as positions go unfilled, experie...
How can unions shrink the growing public-sector pay gap? @MoniquMorrissey & @jensherer discuss legislative attacks on bargaining rights, racial and gender pay equity, the importance of fair pay for public servants in their piece for @PowerAtWorkBlog! Visit poweratwork.us/the-public-sec…
poweratwork.us
The public-sector pay gap is widening. Unions help shrink it.
No one goes into public service to get rich. But as public-sector pay falls farther behind private-sector pay, all of us—not just workers and their families—suffer as positions go unfilled, experie...
A surge in union representation petitions confirms that workers want unions – the @NLRB recently released data showing that petitions have doubled since fiscal year 2021. Read more in a new blog: blog.dol.gov/2024/10/25/new…
Canadian police investigating death of Walmart employee found in store's walk-in oven cbsn.ws/4fbSFHA
Unifor offers condolences to the family, friends & coworkers of the young worker found dead at a Walmart in Halifax where she and her mother worked. Our thoughts remain with all who loved her as we await further details of this tragedy. Every worker deserves to come home safely.
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