We've shared our open letter to @1199SEIU below. I think @USDOL@SEIU@DemSocialists@WorkingFamilies should also be aware of this. I know this is the labor fight that we don't talk about - when our unions fail us in representation. But we need to start.
quoting @RBReich “The pain is already being felt across the land. Most Americans aren’t getting inflation-adjusted wage increases, which means they’re becoming poorer.”
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1/25 Open letter to @1199SEIU leaders:
At last chapter meeting we again asked why volunteer contract captains who attended orientation in late June were forgotten and kept as in the dark about contract negotiations as the rest of membership. We asked why they weren't given same
2/25 access to/participation in negotiations as 1 contract captain, who seems to be a full, active member of the Negotiation Committee from the beginning, participating in its deliberations and voting on its resolutions, and whose remote participation in each session has given
3/25 the lie to union leadership's baffling claim that remote access for members is logistically impossible. Our complaints about the role of contract captains, who are supposed to be well-informed and up-to-date on Negotiation Committee's progress so that they can inform members