Bargaining for the Common Good at #LaborNotes 2024 #LaborNotes 🔥

Our very own Bianca Cunningham (@Acrecampaigns) rocked a packed house for a panel on labor and community alignments that work for the common good of workers and their community ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Did you know that the UAW was the LARGEST financial backer of the first #Earthday in 1970? Unions have been working for the #commongood of our environment for countless years. Delve into Nonprofit Quarterly and what autoworkers are doing for our environment

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Hello to the thousands of beautiful labor militants coming to Labor Notes 2024 this wknd! As someone who has helped build LN for 20 yrs, I wanted to give advice about how to spend your time at the conf + best practices & honoring the goals of why LN was founded #labornotes2024

Cuts to the NB Writing Program demonstrate lack of admin care for faculty and students. ''Its like the rug has been pulled from under our feet,' said Kathleen Wilford, who taught for more than 20 years in the writing program.' #SaveRWritingProfessors loom.ly/SIG2nLc

Exciting news! @CtuLocal1 teachers are coming to the table with their #CommonGood demands, aiming to benefit the students and community. 🌟

Discover the full story here! 🖱️▶️

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“What we are going to do is engage this entire city of Chicago in a negotiation that we will be doing in the front yard.”
— CTU President ⭐️ SDG ⭐️AKA Muse of Chicago Trib Editorial Board

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PA billionaire Jeff Yass games our tax system so it benefits billionaires like him, all the while betting against our children's chances at fully funded schools & affordable housing.

Learn more about how we can stop Yass from rigging our democracy: AllEyesOnYass.com

Making sure students have safety and security inside and outside of the classroom.

All students should know they have a home to go to when the bell rings!🔔

Go Chicago Teachers Union ⭐️ SDG ⭐️AKA Muse of Chicago Trib Editorial Board! This is the Common Good in action.🔥

“What if young people that attended Chicago Public Schools were prioritized in the Chicago Housing Authority waitlist,” Davis Gates said of union demands to address issues beyond what’s encompassed in the proposed budget. + chicagotribune.com/2024/04/16/chi…

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This week, UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz wrote a letter to Carvalho demanding the district take swift action to correct the district's failure to allocate sufficient funding to school sites.

The district has the money to fund our schools — they are just refusing to do it.

With all the chatter about Jeff Yass, here's a reminder that PA groups have been taking him on for YEARS. 🧵

@1hoodpower @pastandsup Alliance For Police Accountability PA Working Families 🐺 LittleSis One Pennsylvania💜⚖️ Free The Ballot Incarcerated Voter Family Network Philadelphia JwJ Make the Road Action in PA POWER Interfaith

✊✊ pdxteachers rally for the common good of their students against special education cuts.

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If you are in Chicago for Labor Notes (or if you couldn't get into the conference but are going to be in town anyway), come by the In These Times office on Sunday evening to see Hamilton Nolan and some special guests. And stick around for the afterparty!

These parents are pushing for strong public education & students' needs in Tennessee—NOT vouchers. Tennessee For All Bargaining For the Common Good bit.ly/3xvzgAZ

“They've invested millions of dollars into Blackstone, a private equity that makes our housing less affordable”

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We're watching what's happening in Tennessee as the state legislature votes against ending grocery tax (and in favor of corporate tax cuts). Tennessee For All Bargaining For the Common Good

UAW workers are fighting for their health and well-being in New Jersey✊.

Stand in solidarity, with the workers, demanding a smoke-free workplace 🚭

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