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ILWU Local 5

1 year

📰BIG NEWS📰 We’ve added a 3rd option for supporting our Strike Fund: direct donations! Now, in addition to buying or selling books through our Powell’s Books Partner Link, where 7.5% goes to the Strike Fund, you can donate directly with a card or PayPal!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

@JortsTheCat Better to lick a croissant than a boot.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Filing a grievance on behalf of Jorts, who did not receive notice that climbing up there and being on there could result in discipline.

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

2 years

You never told me not to be on here, and I spent all day figuring out how to climb up. Who is making up all these rules?!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

If this discussion could in any way lead to my being disciplined or terminated, or affect my personal working conditions, I respectfully request that my union representative be present at the meeting. Without representation, I choose not to answer any of the questions.

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

2 years

How do you keep getting in here? Where did you find that piece of trash? Why are you so wet? Ah yes. I am full of mysteries

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Thinkin' about adding a Jorts segment to our new member orientation.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Brother Jorts, you have the floor.

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

2 years

It’s against the law for your boss to prohibit you from discussing your wages with your coworkers, and also remember there are more workers than there are bosses

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Mounting evidence that tiny @Teamsters jackets for cats should be a thing.

cats with jobs 🛠

@CatWorkers

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@ILWULocal5

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Hear us out: Jorts and Jean holograms at Labor Notes.

Barry Malone

@malonebarry

2 years

So a hologram of the queen drove through London in a golden carriage today. And people waved at it. They waved at a hologram.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Solidarity with @SBWorkersUnited , who announced unionization at SIX new locations today, bringing them to a total of *44* unionizing locations since August of last year! FORTY-FOUR, Y’ALL.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

4 years

Our public statement in response to Powell’s claim of rehiring 100 workers.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

9 months

The results are in: with 92% approval, the workers at @Powells have voted to authorize a strike! What this means, what you can do to help, and what happens next… 🧵

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Diversity of tactics:

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

2 years

I yelled loudly for an hour at dawn. No reason, just felt like it. Now I will take a nap in an inconvenient spot

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

8 months

Workers deserve a lil treat

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Just one of many shared interests.

ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

We are appalled at Powell’s decision to eliminate the recall list and force laid off employees to apply for their former jobs.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Truly the best paragraph.

Starbucks Workers United

@SBWorkersUnited

2 years

You know what happens when you tell partners to "do their own research"? They do their own research, reach the correct conclusion, and organize to form a union.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

9 months

Happy No Labor Day, @Powells !

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

🐱🐾💻 It's Jorts tweeting about another @SBWorkersUnited win.

Starbucks

@Starbucks

2 years

Describe your perfect summer day using only emojis. 🌴☀️☕🗺️

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

*FIVE HUNDRED* days on strike. Love and solidarity to these workers. Shame on Warrior Met.

Ben McRea

@Ben_McRea

2 years

Good morning to everyone but @WarriorMetCoal Day 500 on strike. #onedaylonger #onedaystronger #warriormet

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

#RecallPowells

Portland Jobs

@PDXJobs

3 years

. @Powells 's Books is hiring a full-time New Book Buyer ---> #pdxjobs

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Jorts gave us this photo to include in our new member orientations. Hope it’s OK that we also let a worker use it for their Jorts feature in our member newsletter 🐱❤️📰

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

21 years ago today, Powell’s workers fighting for their first union contract shut the City of Books down. Today, while we fight for our laid-off coworkers to be recalled to their former jobs, we choose to keep it open… (1/3)

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

<clears throat> 📢 THE 📢 UNION 📢 IS 📢 THE 📢 WORKERS 📢

Daily Union Elections

@UnionElections

2 years

SCOOP: REI just sent this union busting email to ALL REI workers in the US.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Interested in forming a union? @JortsTheCat and Jean are here to help!

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

2 years

It’s so exciting that so many workers are asking about how to form a union where you work! Jean helped me make a thread of basic advice that applies to most workers in the USA

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

The whole labor movement's gonna be RIPPED 💪

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

2 years

I got so much exercise from zooming around cheering this week

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

SHAMEFUL. With the threat of a @ufcw555 strike looming, Fred Meyer is looking to hire temporary associates “willing to cross a picket line.” We suggest joining the picket line instead! 🪧🪧🪧 Sign up here, and be sure to spread the word!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Every day's a good day to give Jorts little a salami, and to donate to NVPU to help veterinary workers unionize, but on #NationalPetDay it's basically mandatory.

ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Happy #NationalPetDay ! We hope Jorts gets little a salami, as a treat. We also hope you'll consider a donation to the National Veterinary Professionals Union, a union of veterinary workers organizing for much-needed change in the industry:

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

If anyone who attended the #Rally4Animation got pics of the "heroic corgi ally wearing a cone of solidarity," please share. You will be doing the labor movement a great service.

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

2 years

One of my friends sent this pic after the #Rally4Animation . They also said they saw a heroic corgi ally wearing a cone of solidarity. WOW #NewDealForAnimation

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

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"The ILWU's long history of social justice activism and solidarity with oppressed people around the world is part of what drew the original organizers of Local 5 to the ILWU in the first place..." Read the full statement from the ILWU Local 5 Executive Board below:

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

DID YOU KNOW you can support our Strike Fund by buying or selling books online?? Visit and select a Powell’s Books Partner Link to start your journey. 7.5% of the amount you spend or earn will go to the ILWU Local 5 Strike Fund! 📢 Spread the word!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

If you haven't made a "Do it for Jortsy" sign 🪧 for tomorrow's May Day activities, there's still time! There's also still time to donate to this fundraiser:

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

2 years

🚨 May 1 is the fundraiser deadline! Support @organizeworkers so they can support workers building their union. You can donate here, do it for Jortsy:

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Union cat content is an automatic retweet *those are the rules*

Cats of Yore

@CatsOfYore

2 years

Yesterday I learned about another union cat, Sister Smudge. She was brought on as a mouser at The People's Palace Museum in Glasgow in 1979, and later became a card-carrying member of the General, Municipal and Boilermakers' (GMB) Union!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

1 year

Powell’s workers braved today’s heat to flyer outside the Hawthorne store & let folks know that the Company *continues to offer a starting wage more than $5 below the living wage for Portland*. If you missed getting a flyer, here’s what you can do to support Powell's workers 🧵

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

#LaborNotes2024

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

5 months

Powell’s bargaining update: Yesterday, the ILWU Local 5 bargaining team (pictured) reached a Tentative Agreement with @Powells on an 8th contract! In the coming weeks, Powell’s workers will be reviewing the details & casting their votes, so stay tuned for the results... (1/3)

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Happy holidays from the Local 5 archives! Powell’s workers aren’t on strike this holiday season (📷: 2003), but a LOT of workers are. Consider donating to a strike fund to ensure striking workers can make ends meet while they hold the line. We’ll link to a few below... add more!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Have you heard?? Dog & Cat Shop Union! Dog & Cat Shop Union! 🐶🐱🌿

ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Plants, pets, & people: workers at Fang! Pet & Garden Supply care for all 3. Today they let their employer, Salty's Dog & Cat Shop, know they're going union (w/ ILWU Local 5!) so they can also care for themselves & their coworkers. We’re psyched to support them on their journey!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

8 months

We'll have a more thoughtful reflection soon, but we want to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to our community, our fellow workers, and our union family for making yesterday's Powell's No Labor Day Strike *one for the books*! 📕✊❤️🪧

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

May Day this year is gonna be bonkers, right?

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

Every day is a good day to share this 1999 letter from @ursulaleguin to Michael Powell in support of a unionized @Powells Books, but today is her birthday, so all the more reason. Happy birthday, Ursula ❤️

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

11 months

Yesterday, Powell's presented their "final offer" at the bargaining table, which STILL includes a base wage more than $5 below the living wage for Portland and healthcare plans that will be unaffordable for most workers under the Company's wage proposal. 1/

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

1 year

THIS JUST IN: Voluntary recognition at Neighborhood Partnerships!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Ohh the union-made live vote counter is VERY SATISFYING.

New York Times Tech Guild

@NYTGuildTech

2 years

🗳️ Vote count has started!! Check out our live vote counter ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

7 months

8 months into negotiations for a new contract and @Powells workers are *still* waiting for the Company to put forward a wage proposal that honors workers’ contributions to the company’s success and enables workers to survive.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

6 months

We’re heading back to the @Powells bargaining table tomorrow, and looking forward to seeing a wage proposal from the Company that meets workers’ needs and honors their contributions to Powell’s success. (🧵)

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

The results of the Wild Lilac Union vote are in! Please join us in congratulating these workers who voted overwhelmingly (86%!) in favor of unionization! We’re honored they’ve chosen to join Local 5 and we look forward to supporting them as they negotiate a strong first contract!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

1 year

These are just some of the friendly @Powells workers greeting customers outside the City of Books today, asking for community support in our negotiations for a fair contract 📝 1/2

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

8 months

The Trans Day of Solidarity march stopped by the City of Books yesterday to remind @Powells that Trans Rights Are Labor Rights & you cannot claim to support your trans workers while also fighting them at the table over a living wage & affordable healthcare. Couldn’t agree more!!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Everyone go buy Jean's union-printed zine 😻📖 Proceeds will be donated to worker funds! Do it for Jortsy (and Jean)!

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

2 years

Look at this amazing zine Jean made with her friend Union Pete 🥹 this is the best present ever, it’s so perfect for the first time I celebrate a birthday

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

The Union is looking into every avenue to hold Powell’s to their contractual obligations as well as the moral imperative to treat workers ethically and not use the pandemic as an opportunity to reduce wages and benefits for longtime employees.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

8 months

This is news to us, and we look forward to experiencing the support you claim.

Powell's Books

@Powells

8 months

As a union workplace for 23 years, we are our union’s biggest supporter. We deeply value our employees and respect their right to engage in protected union activity, which includes a strike. We understand it can be part of the bargaining process, and we will honor and respect it.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Unionizing your workplace – the ultimate power move. ✅

Amazon

@amazon

2 years

Sharing your wish list – the ultimate power move. ✅

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

In the meantime, we ask the community to continue your patronage of Powell’s Books. It currently employs around 135 union booksellers — a number we look to increase in the future as business returns to “normal”.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

7 months

Some companies say they support their union — others show that support in real ways, like voluntary recognition, reasonable proposals at the bargaining table, & a big sign! PDX pals, shop at Fang! & Salty’s — represented by ILWU Local 5 — for all your pet or plant needs! 🐕🪴🐈

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Fun fact: when you shop through our Powell's Books partner link, 7.5% of your purchase goes to the ILWU Local 5 Strike Fund, to aid Local 5 members in the event of a strike. How cool is that? (Answer: very cool.) Thank you for shopping union! 📚✊😊

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

This action comes nearly a year after the Union and Company had reached mutual agreement, in writing, that the recall list would be maintained without timeline restrictions.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

@JortsTheCat But a mere 2.5 weeks until *International* Cat Day (August 8) 😬

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

1 year

Today we heard @Powells latest wage proposal: an across-the-board raise of 50¢ this year + 50¢/year (split into two raises) every year after. Given inflation & increases in rent, food, & other basic necessities, Powell's is proposing wages that are worth less every year. 1/

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

7 months

Pictured: workers at @Powells Books on Hawthorne taking advantage of the early fall sunshine to tell customers and passers-by about the insultingly low wages Powell’s corporate bargaining team continues to propose at the table. 🧵

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

7 months

The latest in bookseller fashion (🧵)

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

Heads up, PNW shoppers! Over the weekend, warehouse workers at Fred Meyer voted *unanimously* to authorize a strike. Follow @teamsters117 for updates, and if a picket line should appear at your neighborhood @Fred_Meyer , don't cross it 🛑

Teamsters 117

@teamsters117

3 years

Amazing #solidarity @Fred_Meyer today. #Teamsters vote 335-0 to authorize a #strike ! 💪🏾 #WeFeedWAFamilies #1u

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

1 year

RT if you agree that @Powells workers deserve a living wage! 2/

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

HUGE congratulations to @BVWU_IWW , who just reached a tentative agreement on a *history-making* contract with Burgerville!

Industrial Workers of the World

@iww

2 years

BREAKING | Upon ratification workers at @BurgervilleUSA , unionized with #IWW , will become the only fast food workers covered by a Collective Agreement #1u

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

9 months

Now that @Powells workers have authorized the ILWU Local 5 bargaining team to call for a strike if necessary, it’s time to get #StrikeReady ! First up: cute picket signs 🪧 🪧 🪧 Thanks to all the workers who showed up to today’s (only slightly rainy) sign-making party! 1/3

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

@JortsTheCat Jorts, we feel like you and our regional organizer, Ryan, would get along.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

1 year

"We're so excited that bargaining has started! We were elected in March of last year, so we've spent almost a year really talking to members about what they want in this contract, surveying folks, & working on proposals. The best contracts are built on the voices of workers!" 1/2

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

5 months

Earlier this month, our ILWU Local 10 siblings passed a resolution in solidarity with the people of Palestine and the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israeli apartheid oppression. 🧵 1/3

This Union Is Famous for Opposing South African Apartheid. Now It’s Standing With Gaza.

In 1984, ILWU Local 10 refused to unload goods shipped from South Africa. Today, it’s demanding a cease-fire.

www.thenation.com

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

4 years

Get your boots on the ground and scream, “FEDS GO HOME!”

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

New @SBWorkersUnited shops in NC, NY, TX, and WI! Partners in Knoxville, TN win their union vote, becoming the 1st unionized Starbucks in the South! Another @HPBWorkersUnite election around the corner! @condeunion makes its debut! EVERYONE GETS A UNION!!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Workers at Growing Seeds Crystal Springs voted to authorize a strike! Workers at Fang! Pet & Garden Supply want to make sure they’re ready for one, if needed. A Strike Fund has been set up to support these workers... Any donation/share is so appreciated!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

When workers speak, bosses need to listen & address their grievances. That’s how you keep it out of the streets & not at the doorstep of your business. Solidarity w/ Artifact workers ❤️ Donate to their GoFundMe, which is now ✨AUTHENTIC JORTS MERCH✨:

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Workers at Artifact: Creative Recycle in Portland are taking a stand against discrimination & the unjust firing of a coworker. When management became aware of staff discontent, they shut down the store w/o warning. These workers could use some support!

Help Unemployed Workers!, organised by Artifact Workplace

Hello , we are the staff at Artifact: Creative Recycle in Portland, Oregon. We are standin… Artifact Workplace needs your support for Help Unemployed Workers!

www.gofundme.com

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

1 year

HOW YOU CAN HELP: 1. Send an email to community @ilwulocal5 .com, letting Powell’s leadership know you support a living wage & affordable healthcare for Powell’s workers. 2. Retweet to help us spread the word! Thank you so much for your support! 2/2

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

A thread of things you can do to support Powell’s workers:

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@ILWULocal5

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

1 year

We’re 6 weeks into @Powells contract negotiations & still waiting for the Company to deliver a reasonable wage proposal. What do YOU think is a reasonable starting wage for a worker in the Portland metro area? 🤔 Let us know in the replies!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

4 years

We demand justice for George Floyd and his family.

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

📢 COOL RESOURCE ALERT! Some of our members started this map of unionized/unionizing bookstores & could use help completing it! Send additions & corrections to UnionBookstoreMap @gmail .com. Or just use it for all your book shopping needs! 📚📚📚

Unionized & Unionizing Bookstores - Google My Maps

Created by members of ILWU Local 5. Help us complete this map! Please send additions and corrections to [email protected].

www.google.com

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

Bay area friends, this is *today* at 2pm outside Moe's Books!

Industrial Workers of the World

@iww

3 years

Look alive Berkley, California! Is your love of books & the humans who sell them only second to your love of organized labor? Then there's a @moesbooksunion info picket line that needs your presence tomorrow! Where: @moesbooks When: tomorrow Sept 25 @ 2pm READ ON ⤸

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

1 year

We ❤️ bikes! We ❤️ workers! We ❤️ community! Put it all together and what do you get? Portland's 1st UNION bike shop! The workers at @CommCyclingCtr are joining ILWU Local 5, and less than 48 hrs after notifying the Board of Directors, the CCC agreed to voluntary recognition 🎉

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

Beautiful show of solidarity this morning at the #NabiscoStrike . Thanks to: @JwJpdx & @PortlandDSA for organizing today’s rally; everyone who showed up in support; & most importantly, all the @BCTGM members bravely standing up for the contract they deserve! #NoContractNoSnacks

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

8 months

We said it before, but it bears repeating: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to everyone who showed up for the Powell’s Books No Labor Day Strike — the first @Powells strike *in 20 years* — and helped infuse our picket lines with joy, defiance, and solidarity. 🧵 1/

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

The latest in bookstore cart and bike rack accessorizing: Recall Powell’s stickers! If you spot one in the wild, snap a pic and share it with the hashtag #RecallPowells

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

Things you can do to support Powell's workers (an updated list): (1/8)

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

9 months

Please note: this is NOT a call for a boycott; it’s a call for solidarity. If that ever changes, we’ll be really loud about it!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

1 year

Earlier today, the ILWU Local 5 bargaining team notified Powell’s of their intent to begin negotiations for the next contract (the current contract expires 3/31). This will be the 8th agreement between Local 5 and Powell’s Books since Powell’s workers first unionized in 2000. 🧵

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

Did it hurt? When you turned your back on your workers? More than 130 Powell’s booksellers laid off at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic have yet to be recalled to work. THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO COMPETE WITH THE PUBLIC FOR THEIR FORMER JOBS.

Powell's Books

@Powells

3 years

Powell's is hiring! We're looking for bookish, friendly, and dedicated folks to join our team. That could be YOU! Learn more and apply today here:

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

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Want to help @Powells workers get strike-ready? Swing by @WorkersTap on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 5pm-12am, and 10% of your purchase will go to the ILWU Local 5 Strike Fund to support Powell's workers, who will be going on strike for the first time in *20 years* on Monday, September 4!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

“The most important word in the language of the working class is solidarity.” - Harry Bridges, founding president of the #ILWU ❤️ this so much, @SBWorkersUnited .

Starbucks Workers United

@SBWorkersUnited

2 years

Spotted in a unionizing Starbucks: ✅ Date product ✅ Organize workplace #CleanSafeReadytoOrganize #partnersbecomingpartners

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Last night’s Drinking for Miners fundraiser / Joyful Childcare Workers Union victory party was SUCH A BLAST! Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate newly unionized preschool workers here in Portland & raise money for striking @MineWorkers clear across the country! (1/2)

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

8 months

❤️🍻 WHAT A NIGHT. Thank you so much to @WorkersTap for hosting our Strike Fundraiser last night, and to all the community members who showed up, kept the bartenders *very busy* (thank you, bartenders!!), and helped us raise money for our Strike Fund! 1/

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Highly recommend anyone outraged by Amazon workers demanding $30/hr visit this site and start scrolling right:

Read Let This Radicalize You

@JoshuaPHilll

2 years

I tweeted that @amazonlabor is pushing for $30/hr, and someone said a job where you don't need a GED shouldn't make that much. How does that make sense? You don't need a GED to be a millionaire business owner, so why shouldn't people working their asses off make $30/hr in NYC?

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Let’s hear it for the ILWU Local 5 Bargaining Team who, after just TWO DAYS of bargaining, reached a tentative agreement on a 5-year contract with Aramark at the Evergreen State College! 🤘

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

3 years

Some of you may be wondering why we're asking Powell's Leadership to #RecallPowells . Here's a quick recap!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Union wins are good and sharing them feels nice 💝

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

9 months

You can also help by letting Powell's leadership know that workers have the support of their community. More than 5,000 people have signed our petition demanding a fair contract with a living wage & access to affordable healthcare. Add your name:

20,148 people signed and won this petition

Tell Powell’s Books: Workers Deserve a Fair Contract with a Living Wage

www.change.org

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Exciting news! Yesterday, workers at the Fruit & Flower Child Development Center (PCC Rock Creek) went public w/ their union campaign & requested voluntary recognition. We're so honored these workers have chosen to join ILWU Local 5! Please join us in wishing them a warm welcome!

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ILWU Local 5

@ILWULocal5

2 years

Support striking workers from Growing Seeds Crystal Springs! This Thursday, 6:30-9pm at @WorkersTap (101 SE 12th Ave), 20% of drink sales will be donated to the Strike Fund. EXTRA CREDIT: join the picket from 4:30-6pm at Crystal Springs (2808 SE Steele St) beforehand!

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