#spwu

My union, Social Policy Workers United, is currently on strike against our non-profit employer, MDRC, in a unfair labor practice strike. MDRC has withheld our year end raises and held retroactivity of those raises hostage until we capitulate to their sub-bar wage offers. We've filed an unfair labor practice charge against them with the NLRB and are currently striking. If you'd like to support us, please click the link and sign. We'll make sure Virginia Knox, MDRC's president, gets it.

Letter of Support

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First post-strike payday for MDRC employees today. Thinking about my bargaining unit siblings who sacrificed somewhere around $600 to be out on the picket lines for three days to make their point. There were years when that kind of loss would have wrecked me and I'm glad I could help support those in that situation now. But we shoulnd't have had to do it and that kind of loss shouldn't be as dire as it is. For anyone.

Management has offered to come back to the table (note that they have not offered to make us right on our long over-due year end raises), but they suggested we split the cost of expensive professional mediators instead of using the free ones the government offers. Guess why? So the shenanigans of their union busting lawyer have not stopped, and the sincerity is not really there. We'll see how they do at the table.

We are 16 people away from 500 signatures on the letter of support for our unfair labor practices strike against MDRC. If you haven't yet, please sign and share! Monday is our final day on strike and we hope to force management back to the table to bargain in good faith.

Once Charlotte had left to get the blonde food that she was most likely not even going to touch, let alone eat, Jillian took that chance to sneak into her brother's room for some twin alone time without anyone to interrupt her or drag her ass back to the small waiting room. Closing the door softly behind her, the blonde slowly approached Jullian's bed, almost as if she was afraid to assert the damage. The damage she indirectly caused him. Taking a deep breath, she willed the tears that were gathering at the corner of her eyes back. Very little made her cry but if there was one thing that never failed to cause her to bawl her eyes, it was Jullian. Any time he was hurting or depressed, those moments pulled on her heart strings like no other moment could.