Skylight Booksellers Union @skylight_union
📚 representing the booksellers of @skylightbooks, est. 2021, affiliated with @cwaunion 🌹🥖 Joined May 2021-
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It’s official‼️Amazon Labor Union is the first Amazon union in US HISTORY‼️POWER TO THE PEOPLE! #UnionStrong #ALUfortheWin
For Literary Hub, I got to recommend some books that center what it’s possible to build, even as we fight to dismantle.
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 @amazonlabor. Final 4 boxes will be opened tomorrow.
At the stroke of midnight, over 1,000 @MineWorkers 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.
Big day for the @skylight_union 🗳 🎉
Today I am grateful for the @skylight_union and all my fierce & righteous bookseller comrades 💪
Great coverage from @RacketMN 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
Great coverage from @RacketMN 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
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/…
All power and solidarity to @DUPWorkersUnion 🤝 .@DukePress respect the vote!
All power and solidarity to @DUPWorkersUnion 🤝 .@DukePress respect the vote!
BREAKING: We have averted a strike! After more than two and a half years of negotiations, @newyorkerunion, @p4kunion, 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 😍
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 😍
Tell me you work at a union shop without telling me you work at a union shop
Huge congratulations to @skylight_union and welcome to our @CWAUnion family! The only thing I love more than independent bookstores is *union* independent bookstores. ❤️#1u #solidarity
Huge congratulations to @skylight_union and welcome to our @CWAUnion family! The only thing I love more than independent bookstores is *union* independent bookstores. ❤️#1u #solidarity
Hey LA! Support the workers at Skylight Books!
Hey LA! Support the workers at Skylight Books!
You love to see it. Great work! Solidarity with you all.
You love to see it. Great work! Solidarity with you all.
Welcome to the union, sisters and brothers! #UnionStrong #1u #independentbookstores @skylight_union
Welcome to the union, sisters and brothers! #UnionStrong #1u #independentbookstores @skylight_union
Bookshop workers across the country are unionizing!
Bookshop workers across the country are unionizing!
#DailyNews: @believermag reveals the winners of this year’s #BelieverBookAwards; booksellers @skylightbooks form @skylight_union; @TXCommArts selects @CassellsCyrus and @thepoetmendez (aka @houstonpworg!) as ’21 and ’22 state poet laureates. More stories: at.pw.org/May19_2021
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WE JUST WON OUR UNION VOTE @SBWorkersUnited
David and his coworkers in Minnesota are among the first Half Price Books workers to unionize and are PUMPED to start bargaining and win their contract. ✊ David's right. We deserve a voice in our wages, working conditions, and benefits. (Work at HPB too? Send us a DM!)
Shouting out our friends at @UKworkersunited @UFCW400 @skylight_union @moesbooksunion @book_workers @HPBUnionMN @HPBWorkersUnite @ILWULocal5! If you can make it digitally, that would also be super amazing!
Cannot stress enough how much it means to us for Kim Kelly and Sarah Nelson to be talking about this important history at our store. It's gonna be our little belated May Day celebration. If you're free that night and feel like having a good time, come thru!!!
Friends, we are so thrilled and honored to have @GrimKim in conversation with @FlyingWithSara at our Conn Ave location this May! Join us as she discusses her new book FIGHT LIKE HELL on May 3rd (That's a Tuesday!), an Untold Story of American Labor!!!
Amazon workers in Staten Island brought da motherfuckin' ruckus straight to Jeff Bezos’ doorstep. This @amazonlabor victory is absolutely incredible—they’re the first to take on this giant and win, but they most definitely will not be the last 🔥
BREAKING: AMAZON LABOR UNION WINS HISTORIC FIGHT FOR THE FIRST AMAZON UNION IN THE ENTIRE US‼️
📚🚨BREAKING NEWS!!!🚨📚 Congratulations to our new union siblings at the Half Price Bookstore in Greenwood, Indiana on winning their union election! We have power in numbers and when we all come together we can continue to make real change at HPB.
If you ever doubt your power as a lone worker, remember that Amazon spent $1 million in union busting costs per every worker-organizer on our campaign. The power to connect with the people you work with and care about is the power to change the world. Solidarity forever❤️ #ALU
It’s official‼️Amazon Labor Union is the first Amazon union in US HISTORY‼️POWER TO THE PEOPLE! #UnionStrong #ALUfortheWin
Polls just closed and voting is officially over. Ballots will be counted starting 1pm tomorrow. Follow us for live updates. Solidarity. ✊
All of Twitter and the labor movement today: 👀👀👀
Current Vote Totals: 1317 Yes 1000 No 317 votes in ALU’s favor.
Our election in Greenwood is TOMORROW!!! Here's Mike on why he's voting union yes 💙
📢 📢 ELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT📢 📢 Booksellers at HPB in Greenwood, Indiana are voting YES for their union this week! Follow along for more updates and final results on Friday 📖 💙 📖
Big day for the @skylight_union 🗳 🎉
Today I am grateful for the @skylight_union and all my fierce & righteous bookseller comrades 💪
@HPBUnionMN @BSCworkers @book_workers @moesbooksunion @skylight_union The more, the merrier!
@ILWULocal5 @BSCworkers @book_workers @moesbooksunion @skylight_union The table is big enough for all the books AND all the workers! ✊📚
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