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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 1h

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks to @ericblanc.bsky.social for the shout-out on the latest Money with Katie episode!

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 4h

Can your boss fire you for your posts?

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 2d

6 questions to ask if your boss threatens to offshore your job

Offshoring threats are common but damaging to campaigns. Learn how secure the facility is and how important it is to the overall company structure.

6 questions to ask if your boss threatens to offshore your job

Offshoring threats are common but damaging to campaigns. Learn how secure the facility is and how important it is to the overall company structure.

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 6d

How to organize a retail union

Retail workers often face some of the worst trends in employment, but they're uniquely positioned to put pressure on their bosses to get what they deserve.

How to organize a retail union

Retail workers often face some of the worst trends in employment, but they're uniquely positioned to put pressure on their bosses to get what they deserve.

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 8d

This case, like countless ones before it, is an example of how our civil liberties have been won and defended through many decades of struggle in courts, workplaces, and streets. If you support free speech on your workplace and beyond, join a union.

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 8d

The ruling makes many references to earlier labor + free speech cases, noting that Red Scare cases expanded the definition of free speech.

But, it remarks, targeting speech critical of a foreign nation "is a new invention that in important ways goes beyond its closest analogues in the Red Scare."

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 8d

In what the Court called "perhaps the most important [case] to ever fall" within its jurisdiction, it ruled that the 1st Amendment applies to noncitizens & the federal government intentionally violated noncitizens' rights to speech by responding to protest with visa relocations and deportations.

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 8d

Academic workers from the AAUP and AFT won a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration's actions against noncitizen students and faculty for pro-Palestine speech.

The case underscores the power of unions to resist authoritarianism and shows workers' rights = civil rights = immigrant rights 🧵

Adam Quinn @adamquinnphd.com · 8d

Judge Young (a Reagan appointee) ruled in favor of the AAUP/AFT and against Trump for punishing immigrant students for pro-Palestine speech.

His decision remarks that the government's campaign goes "beyond its closest analogues in the Red Scare."

Here's how he starts the decision off:

A photocopied letter reads "Trump has pardons and tanks.... what do you have?" The judge responds "Alone, i have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, we the people of the united states - you and me - have our magnificent constitution. Here's how that works out in a specific case.

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 8d

Your boss may not be in the top 10%, but that's who he works for.

Meanwhile, we work for ourselves and our families, selling our labor every day for food and rent.

With a union, you and your co-workers stand strong together and fight for the share you deserve.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 9d

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.

The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 12d

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 14d

AMA: Union organizers to help you ACTUALLY start organizing your workplace! 🙌

Bring your questions to Zack Frink and Lindsay Sanders this Friday at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET to get all the insight you need to know into how to make tangible change at your job.

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Join us on TikTok live for AMA: Labor Organizing 101
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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 12d

TONIGHT! 👇See you on TikTok!

Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 14d

AMA: Union organizers to help you ACTUALLY start organizing your workplace! 🙌

Bring your questions to Zack Frink and Lindsay Sanders this Friday at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET to get all the insight you need to know into how to make tangible change at your job.

TikTok: @genzforchange

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 14d

AMA: Union organizers to help you ACTUALLY start organizing your workplace! 🙌

Bring your questions to Zack Frink and Lindsay Sanders this Friday at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET to get all the insight you need to know into how to make tangible change at your job.

TikTok: @genzforchange

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 14d

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 14d

AMA: Union organizers to help you ACTUALLY start organizing your workplace! 🙌

Bring your questions to Zack Frink and Lindsay Sanders this Friday at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET to get all the insight you need to know into how to make tangible change at your job.

TikTok: @genzforchange

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 16d

Chicago labor’s fight against child slavery in Côte d’Ivoire

The Brach’s factory closure hit working families in Chicago. To fight back, these families took the struggle from the shop floor and made it international.

Chicago labor’s fight against child slavery in Côte d’Ivoire

The Brach’s factory closure hit working families in Chicago. To fight back, these families took the struggle from the shop floor and made it international.

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 20d

Union members have additional protections against politicized firings. If you're in a union, see these tips to stay safe. If you're not, talk with us to change that.

How to Defend Members from Politicized Firings

Can a worker be fired simply for expressing an opinion that the boss or a political group finds objectionable? These days online attackers often campaign to pressure employers to fire workers for poli...

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 23d

If you've read this far and you're thinking "damn, I gotta get one of those union contracts before anyone finds my @" hit us up at workerorganizing.org/support & an organizer will contact you within 48 hrs 🫡

Get Support - Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee

Learn how you and your co-workers can address problems at work. Fill out our form and we'll connect you with organizers to get you the support you need.

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 23d

Does THE CONTRACT say you can be fired because some weirdo sent your boss a tweet they didn't like and threatened to unleash a harassment campaign against your employer if they don't comply?

No? You're good.

Same if your boss finds your posts making fun of his yacht rock band

a boy is sitting in front of a laptop with the words safe & secure written on the screen

Alt: a boy is sitting in front of a laptop with the words safe & secure written on the screen

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 23d

That's why unions demand 'just cause' or 'due cause' clauses in our contracts: we lay out what you CAN be fired for, plus a process to defend yourself. Anything else doesn't count.

Causes like harassing others, stealing, being incompetent even after training are standard.

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 23d

(People tend to mix up at-will and right to work, because they're both euphemisms for weakening your power as a worker. ""Right to work"" means people can opt out of paying union dues even when the union is obligated to represent them)

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 23d

Even under at-will rules, it's illegal to fire you out of discrimination, in retaliation for whistleblowing, etc

But there's a huge loophole: Bosses can pretend they're firing you for *literally any other reason* & it's pretty hard to prove otherwise unless they were *very* dumb

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 23d

"At will" employment is the default in the US.* That means that unless you have a contract stating otherwise, your boss can fire you "at will" for whatever they want whenever they want.

*Unless you live in Montana, they just banned at-will! 🫡

There's some exceptions--

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 23d

Can your boss REALLY fire you for innocuous posts they disagree with? That depends on whether you have "just cause" or "due cause" protections--a key provision of union contracts 🧵

a woman in glasses is standing in front of a group of people and says you 're all fired .

Alt: Liz Lemon standing in front of a group of people and says "You're all fired!"

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 27d

How Sugared + Bronzed workers won the first salon chain union in the country

When the girls of Sugared + Bronzed — a salon chain specializing in spray tanning and sugaring hair removal — first heard about labor unions, we didn’t expect that workers like us could have a union of our own.

How Sugared + Bronzed workers won the first salon chain union in the country

When the girls of Sugared + Bronzed — a salon chain specializing in spray tanning and sugaring hair removal — first heard about labor unions, we didn’t expect that workers like us could have a union of our own.

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