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Virginia Beach Mayor Dyer is trying to rush the vote on collective bargaining to undermine worker power!

Public hearing on Tues April 9 at 6pm at City Hall.

Send a letter to Mayor Dyer and city council today here: bit.Ly/VBCBLetter

✊🏿✊🏽✊🏾Salute to our UE siblings in Durham NC!! Onwards!

📢🔥Durham Sanitation Worker George Bacote Speaks on WHY WE ARE RALLYING at the CityofDurhamNC Budget Hearing Monday, March 18 📢🔥

We demand:
✊🏿 $25/hr for Solid Waste first,
✊🏿 Fair Annual Raise Based on Median Pay,
✊🏿 End Unfair Merit Pay
✊🏿 Reclassify Sanitation workers!

A leader of our union, Velma Owens, was interviewed by the city as part of Women’s History month. She’s a true working class worker leader!

Hear her story. #InternationalWomensDay

Video: youtu.be/IYc1wIMOfmk?si…

🎉✊🏾🧕🏽Happy International Working Women’s Day!!

March 8, 1908, women workers in the needle trades marched through New York City's Lower East Side to protest child labor and sweatshop working conditions, and demand women's suffrage. The struggle continues today! #IWWD

🚨Durham City Workers Union rally for $25/hr🚨

👣Mon March 18 @ 6:30pm
📢City Council Budget Hearing
🎯Durham City Hall!

CityofDurhamNC claims $19.56/hr is the UNIVERSAL Living Wage in 2024 based on a 1 bed room apt. We call their bluff!

“Councilman Knight called for Rocky Mount city manager Keith Rogers to honor Dr. MLK by reinstating unfairly fired sanitation worker Arnie Jones & extending a fair pay raise to the sanitation workers as was awarded to the city police last April. ueunion.org/ue-news/2024/l…

“City workers need their own voice through the union… with collective bargaining workers will have a voice and be able to negotiate over our wages and working conditions.” - Clifford Johnson, City of Norfolk, VA sanitation worker and UE member #collectivebargaining #unionpower

When workers die on the job, North Carolina safety regulators routinely reduce company penalties.
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'62% saying they support/strongly support amending the constitution to guarantee abortion rights, while 66% support/strongly support felon re-enfranchisement after a completed prison sentence” - The Wason Center bluevirginia.us/2024/01/new-wa…

The mural tells the story of UE, industrial unionism, & social movements in the style of Diego Rivera. For 50 years, it served as visual narrative of the struggles & triumphs of the working class, capturing the spirit of solidarity, resilience, & the fight for workers’ rights 4/5

50 years ago, a team of artists led by John Pitman Weber and Jose Guerrero created the “Solidarity” mural in the lobby of the UE Hall in Chicago, at that time the center of a vibrant working-class neighborhood. (1/5)

Workers from 32BJ SEIU /// #BuildingJustice 🧹✊🏽 and SEIU Virginia 512 are in the Virginia General Assembly for our first ever joint Lobby Day!

Our #UnionsForAll Agenda includes:

✅ $15 minimum wage
✅ Collective bargaining rights for ALL public employees including home care workers
✅ Critical protections…

We need a law like this in VA!!

Yesterday, N.C. Department of Labor hosted a public hearing on a proposed new rule for future airborne infectious diseases (like COVID). Three of our union members from Goldsboro to Morganton testified in support of the rule, which most in the room opposed (supporting business over workers lives)

“Workers need more diversity in the workforce. The city needs more female leaders who are discriminated against for promotions & historically make less than their male counterparts, Collective Bargaining will allow fairness in the workplace”. Velma Owens, Norfolk Public Utilities

“Collective Bargaining in Hampton Roads is a large step in the right direction. Collective bargaining helps establish a balance of power, fostering a collaborative approach between labor & management. This is needed now more than ever during these difficult economic times we face

Living off of $12 dollars an hour in 2024 ain't it.

'City workers need their own voice through their union. Management cannot speak for us, nor do they have the power to give us what we need. With collective bargaining workers will have that voice” Clifford Johnson, sanitation worker City of Norfolk, VA

🔥 video:
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'City Councils in these cities need to pass a Collective Bargaining Ordinances that enables city workers to support their families and afford to live in the city they work for,' Terry Green, President, Virginia Beach City Workers Union, UE Local 111, a 35-year city worker in the Water Department. (7/7)