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julieann412.bsky.social
union lawyer; nebby yinzer
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The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

as trade unionists we are often very cringe: wearing matching t shirts, calling each other siblings, singing songs about solidarity. cringe can yield power!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Tomorrow in DC we’re protesting DC Children’s Hospital for ending all care to trans people under 19 I would love to see my followers join me in protesting a move that’s already impacting folks very close to me If not now, when?

submitted 22 days ago • 32 comments

Is what’s going on too simple to see? By force, a white male power structure is in the process of seizing back control, and as ever they can’t hold onto power without subjugation and scapegoating and coercion and violence. That doesn’t really seem like chaos, it’s America like clockwork.

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

These executive orders are reckless and illegal. They hurt real students, real educators, and real communities. That’s why educator voices are so critical in this moment. Share your story at nea.org/share

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I never want anyone to be pushed to the brink like so many of us have. Every trans person had survived to get here. I still remember the day I almost went over that edge. I will do whatever it takes so no one else ever has to feel what I did.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

a public service announcement

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store during the duration of our ULP strikes. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/sbwo...

submitted 64 days ago • 102 comments

hahahhahha

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

perplexed by this story on NPR this morning, the premise of which seems to be “imagine sending premarital Christmas cards!? These ladies told us what drives their strange desires to send holiday greetings even without a husband or children to justify such actions.” www.npr.org/2024/12/19/n...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

i’m trans. reporting this story nearly killed me. had to stop drinking and wound up on many friends “call to see if she’s ok” lists. please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)

submitted 75 days ago • 45 comments

USA: Academic Labor Unions Are Key to Fighting Trump’s Repressive Higher Ed Agenda truthout.org/articles/aca...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

This should be said everywhere. Allowing discrimination like this against trans people undermines bedrock principles of constitutional rights across the board.

submitted 81 days ago • 24 comments

Graduate workers at the University of Pittsburgh voted overwhelmingly to unionize. Over 97% of Graduate Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Graduate Student Researchers, and Graduate Student Assistants voted to join the @steelworkers.bsky.social Tally: 1033 YES - 28 NO

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

pitt graduate workers won their union today by over 97%!!! feeling such pride in the workers who made this happen & so much hope for the positive impacts the new faculty, staff, and now grad unions will have on our city & county in days to come

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Pitt Grad Union with a freakin' landslide. Over 97%! #PittBS

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

fellow cis folks: this is the reality for our trans friends. the violence is real, and your quiet pacifism in the face of it won’t make it stop. you need to get good at intervening. you need to recognize that simply your privilege of existing as a cis person can de-escalate violence and save lives.

submitted 95 days ago • 6 comments

Slotkin is overestimating the difference between the “faculty lounge” and the “assembly line.” I’ve worked for unions that bargained for bathroom access, lobbied for trans rights, and trained members on inclusive language. If you want to be a bigot, don’t pretend the working class hates with you.

submitted 96 days ago • 29 comments

just got an eggplant parm sandwich and a side of veggie risotto for $11, pittsburgh’s still got it

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Champagne pops at FedSoc panel on administrative law as panelists including two federal judges toast, literally, recent Supreme Court rulings rolling it back

submitted 100 days ago • 11 comments