Two Important Labor Solidarity Calls from Portland Jobs With Justice (AND A VICTORY!)

The first post below regarding the academic student employees at Washington State University reached us this morning. I posted it just a few minutes ago and while I was working on another post word reached us that "THE STRIKE IS OFF ! WSU-CASE has a Tentative Agreement with WSU Administration!"

This is indeed good news and it shows what labor solidarity and a credible strike threat can accomplish. It's almost counter-intuitive. You may well avoid a strike if you help build solidarity among your coworkers, have a credible strike threat at hand that even management can see, win support from other union members and then from the public, and have good issues that everyone can identify with. It's much more about what happens between us and our coworkers every day and much less about what happens behind closed doors.

I'm going to leave the post up to draw attention to the union's victory.

More than a thousand academic student employees at Washington State University walked off the job today, after 11 months of university administration's unwillingness to offer a contract which supports fair wages, improved health care, paid parental leave, and more. Join WSU CASE-UAW (Coalition of Academic Student Employees-UAW) and UAW Local 492 down at the Vancouver branch of WSU to support workers on strike! Follow along on Facebook here, on Twitter here. And sign up for picket shifts here!

WSU entrance, 14100 NE Salmon Creek Ave., Vancouver WA

Beginning today, for as long as it takes! 7am - 5pm

Doughnut Workers United Blue Star will vote in their union election today! Following the election, you can join DWU Bluestar tonight, at 7pm, at Workers Tap in Portland.

10% of all sales will support the GoFundMe set up to aid the active union supporters who were furloughed during the unionization effort.

Join the fundraiser tonight and/or contribute directly here!