TLDR: PRACTICE PICKET FOR UNION POWER
- Sign up for a 1 hour shift
- East Baltimore campus: 10am - 12pm
- Homewood campus: 1pm - 4pm
Join your fellow grad workers at our very first
practice picket, as we give admin a preview of what it would look like if we were to go on strike, and leverage some real union power! This picket will be a key opportunity to increase the pressure on Hopkins and to show them that we
CAN and
WILL go on strike if they won't budge. We know that escalations like these give us movement in the bargaining room without disrupting our work and our teaching unless we absolutely have to.
Our labor, our research, our teaching runs this University, and we deserve fair protections from an unjust workplace: we deserve a fair wage, the recognition of our work as work, and long term union security through union shop.
Currently, admin is stalling on articles around Union Security and Discipline and Discharge. They want to weaken our union's strength by withholding union shop (universal union membership), and they want to fire us on the basis of "academics" and without due process because they don't believe our research is work that should be protected by our contract.
At this picket, we tell admin:
Union power means our work is work.
Union power is union shop.
Join us Tuesday, February 20 for a 1 hour shift (or more!) -- in the morning on East Baltimore campus by the Dome on Broadway (10:00am - 12:00pm) and in the afternoon on Homewood by the Beach (1:00pm - 4:00pm) to show Hopkins we mean business!
