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book store workers of the world unite <3

Another union win in retail!

#DailyNews: The Believer reveals the winners of this year’s #BelieverBookAwards; booksellers Skylight Books form Skylight Booksellers Union; Texas Arts selects Cyrus Cassells and Lupe Mendez (aka Poets & Writers in the HOU!!) as ’21 and ’22 state poet laureates. More stories: at.pw.org/May19_2021

Bookshop workers across the country are unionizing!

Welcome to the union, sisters and brothers! #UnionStrong #1u #independentbookstores Skylight Booksellers Union

You love to see it. Great work! Solidarity with you all.

Huge congratulations to Skylight Booksellers Union and welcome to our CWA family! The only thing I love more than independent bookstores is *union* independent bookstores. ❤️#1u #solidarity

Tell me you work at a union shop without telling me you work at a union shop

BREAKING: We have averted a strike! After more than two and a half years of negotiations, The New Yorker Union, Pitchfork Union, and Ars Union are proud to announce that we have reached an agreement in principle on our first contracts. Here are some of our wins:

Cheers to New Yorker workers! Way to show us all what is possible when you stick together and don't give up. These contract terms 😍

All power and solidarity to DUP Workers Union 🤝 .Duke University Press respect the vote!

Many consider Berkeley's Small Press Distribution vital to the nation's ecosystem of independent publications. But last December, a former employee came forward with their story, sparking a reckoning about how the nonprofit treats its workers. kqed.org/news/11883845/…

Great coverage from Racket here! "We really hope this lights the fire . . . and it becomes a nationwide knock on the door . . . have you ever raised your expectations and realized you could be asking for more?" ✊✊✊ #HPBUnion #MNBookstoreUnion #HalfPriceBooks

At the stroke of midnight, over 1,000 United Mine Workers at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama will have been out on strike for an entire YEAR. That’s: 365 days on the line. Hundreds of protests. Thousands of union children learning to stand up for what’s right. One day longer.

For Literary Hub, I got to recommend some books that center what it’s possible to build, even as we fight to dismantle.

UPDATE: Final tally for today with 6/10 boxes finished at #JFK8 election is 1518-1154 OR +364 votes IN FAVOR of joining Amazon Labor Union IBT. Final 4 boxes will be opened tomorrow.

It’s official‼️Amazon Labor Union is the first Amazon union in US HISTORY‼️POWER TO THE PEOPLE! #UnionStrong #ALUfortheWin