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Amanda Bock
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Curator 📷 | Community gardener 🥕 | AFSCME Local 397 VP 👊 | Philadelphia 📍🥨
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Hello! I’m a photography curator, community organizer, union officer, and general maker of good trouble in Philadelphia. she/her, queer all year, nice to meet you.
tbh he made that painfully clear before he got elected but for whatever reason people voted for him anyway.
January 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
New union acct just dropped! 👋

Give us a follow!
Hello BlueSky! We are Philly Cultural Workers United, a union of Philly museum and cultural workers. We are workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, @pennmuseum.bsky.social, Please Touch Museum, and the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. Also find us @ PhillyCWU on Instagram
January 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Reposted by Amanda Bock
The Ballet Class (flipped, also from the @philamuseum), by Edgar Degas, 1880
January 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I am here for this! Philly show these workers some love in stores and give them a follow over on insta @ phillywholefoodsworkers
BREAKING: 300 Whole Foods workers in Philly are unionizing with the UFCW.

This appears to be the first organizing effort at a Whole Foods store ever, per @unionelections.bsky.social.
November 22, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Thank you!
November 22, 2024 at 2:18 PM
And we’ve relaunched a strike fund! I know money is tight and the future uncertain, but if you’ve got it like that consider tossing a little in for Philly’s cultural workers. Donations support in the event of a strike:

adl3.betterworld.org/campaigns/af...
AFSCME Local 397 Strike Fund | AFSCME DC47 Local 397
adl3.betterworld.org
November 20, 2024 at 1:22 PM
I’m so excited for this level of chaos. On top of ordinary Philly chaos.
November 19, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Our union sibs at Please Touch Museum have been bargaining their first contract for 15 months. 95% of union staff there make below PHL living wage & their economic proposals have gone unanswered by mgmt for 3 mo. Sign a quick petition to support: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fa...
Fair Contract Now for PTM Workers
Please Touch Museum is a Philadelphia landmark and one of the top 10 children's museums in the country. PTM's stated mission is to "change a child's life as they discover the power of learning through...
actionnetwork.org
November 19, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Philly forever. I’ve lived lots of places but never has it been so easy to build community. I know most of the people within three blocks of my house. I like that people just talk to each other with no shortage of candor, for better or worse. I came for a 3yr gig and 14 years later am still here.
November 18, 2024 at 1:58 PM
We were just talking about this.
November 18, 2024 at 12:09 PM
A+
i love philly
November 17, 2024 at 7:31 PM
If you’ve got room for one more: AFSCME Local 397 union officer in Philly 👈
November 17, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Thank you for doing this important work! Like many before me, I was reading along and then got to The Atlantic and CACKLED.
November 17, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Hello! I’m a photography curator, community organizer, union officer, and general maker of good trouble in Philadelphia. she/her, queer all year, nice to meet you.
November 15, 2024 at 2:09 AM
November 19, 2023 at 10:52 PM
Weird first post and probably gonna go nowhere bc I haven’t found my people on here yet but — anyone know of a print-to-order outfit that makes hats & shirts that is also a union shop?
September 14, 2023 at 12:47 PM