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🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: WE WON!!🚨🚨 Yesterday, May 20, 2024, 72% of participating shop members voted to ratify management’s most recent contract offer and end the strike! 🧵More info about some of our victories in the thread below
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📣Press Release: After Grueling Campaign, The Bronx Defenders Union–UAW Local 2325 Ratifies Historic Contract "'It took each and every @bronxdefenders worker to make this contract possible,' said Babatunde Aremu, Chapter Chair of BxD Union." 📎: tinyurl.com/bxdratifies
Photograph of BxD practice picket on July 17, 2024, appears in the background. A red text box with white text reads: "Press Release." Underneath that text, black text reads: "After Grueling Campaign, The Bronx Defenders Union–UAW Local 2325 Ratifies Historic Contract."

ALT Photograph of BxD practice picket on July 17, 2024, appears in the background. A red text box with white text reads: "Press Release." Underneath that text, black text reads: "After Grueling Campaign, The Bronx Defenders Union–UAW Local 2325 Ratifies Historic Contract."

Image of press release, which is too lengthy to quote in alt text but can be read in full at www.tinyurl.com/bxdratifies.

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The Bronx Defenders Union - UAW Local 2325@BxDUnion26 Jul 2024
📢 Our contract has been ratified by our membership! Today, with 92% participation, 91% of voting members opted to ratify our 2024-26 contract with a 1-year salary reopener. This contract is the result of the collective effort of all of our members. We're ready for 2025 & 2026!
The BxD Union logo appears in white on a black background. Text on a white text box beneath the logo reads "Contract Ratified. Today, with 92% participation, 91% of voting members opted to ratify our 2024-26 contract with a 1-year salary reopener. We’ll be back in 2025 & 2026!"

ALT The BxD Union logo appears in white on a black background. Text on a white text box beneath the logo reads "Contract Ratified. Today, with 92% participation, 91% of voting members opted to ratify our 2024-26 contract with a 1-year salary reopener. We’ll be back in 2025 & 2026!"

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regardless of the outcome of the vote - @BxDUnion wins!
The Bronx Defenders Union - UAW Local 2325@BxDUnion25 Jul 2024
On July 17, after seventeen hours of grueling negotiations, The Bronx Defenders management and collective bargaining committee reached a tentative agreement. We saw historic wins in BxD Union’s second contract negotiations, including: (🧵1/)
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We’ll share more later, but, as a preview, we secured: ✅ 8-10% salary increases ✅ A 2-year contract term with the right to strike for wages after 1 year in line with @alaa2325 sectoral bargaining ✅ A fair, flexible telecommuting policy ✅ A free speech provision (2/3)
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The Bronx Defenders Union - UAW Local 2325@BxDUnion18 Jul 2024
After 17 hours of bargaining, at 2:20 am, the BxD Union Collective Bargaining Committee and BxD Management reached a tentative agreement. 🧵(1/3)
Text around the BxD Union logo reads: WE HAVE REACHED A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT.

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📢📢📢 Call to Action for BxD Alumni! If you're a former BxDer who wants to better understand what's happening with the Union and how to support, read our statement for alumni @ tinyurl.com/bxdalumni
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Solidarity with our @BxDUnion siblings! @BronxDefenders management: the choice is yours. Offer a fair contract in the coming weeks or force your staff and clients the unnecessary hardship of going on strike.
The Bronx Defenders Union - UAW Local 2325@BxDUnion3 Jul 2024
📢Press Release: The Bronx Defenders Union Announces Unlimited Unfair Labor Practice Strike Beginning Week of July 22, 2024 📢 🔗 Read the press release in full at tinyurl.com/bxdunionstrike 📷: @MichaelLetwin
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This is an image of the press release in full. It is too lengthy to include as alt text, but the PDF is available at www.tinyurl.com/bxdunionstrike.

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📢 Press Release: With an Expired Contract and Historic Strike Authorization Vote, The Bronx Defenders Union Prepares for Imminent Strike 📢
White box overlaid over image of BxD picket reads: "Press Release: With an Expired Contract and Historic Strike Authorization Vote, The Bronx Defenders Union Prepares for Imminent Strike"

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⏳ Our contract expires June 30th, and @BronxDefenders management has failed to recognize who really makes BxD run, who really defends the Bronx, and who really cares about the mission of The Bronx Defenders. 🧵(1/3)
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Today, members took it one step further by filing an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board. As it reads in the statement; “We are committed to fighting this policy until it is retracted in full.” We will not be silenced. 🍉
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solidarity with @ABetterNYLAG in their fight against @nylag management’s reprehensible suppression of workers’ free speech.
A Better NYLAG@ABetterNYLAG19 Jun 2024
For almost a month, NYLAG management has made it their mission to harass and intimidate workers for their pro-Palestine speech in our office and our membership has now said ENOUGH! 🧵
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Sean Davis of @MFJUnion & @LSSA2320 spoke outside NY City Hall today in favor of the #HomesNow campaign for $2.5b in funding. "We need permanently affordable housing. We’re proud that our union took the lead in committing to a justice agenda & for Homes Now in the final budget."
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Tick tock @BronxDefenders ⏳
The Bronx Defenders Union - UAW Local 2325@BxDUnion12 Jun 2024
📣 Approximately 200 people (yes we counted!!) turned out for today’s picket. 📣 🧵 1/
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👀The lowest-paid workers at @BronxDefenders earn $52,343 annually—almost $17,000 less than a living wage for NYC. Meanwhile, in 2022, BxD’s Executive Director compensation was $339,051.
On a black background, text reads: "BxD: Redefining Unlivable Wages." Below that header, text reads: "At BxD, a first-year non-attorney worker earns $52,343. In NYC, a living wage for a single adult is $69,285. In 2022, BxD's Executive Director compensation was $339,051." A bar chart below lays out these numbers, and then reads: "Sources: Living Wage Calculator (https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36061), BxD Form 990 for FY 2022 (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/133931074/202341809349300734/full)" At the bottom of the image, text reads: "Every worker deserves a living wage-not just the boss. That's why we're demanding a fair contract now!"

ALT On a black background, text reads: "BxD: Redefining Unlivable Wages." Below that header, text reads: "At BxD, a first-year non-attorney worker earns $52,343. In NYC, a living wage for a single adult is $69,285. In 2022, BxD's Executive Director compensation was $339,051." A bar chart below lays out these numbers, and then reads: "Sources: Living Wage Calculator (https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36061), BxD Form 990 for FY 2022 (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/133931074/202341809349300734/full)" At the bottom of the image, text reads: "Every worker deserves a living wage-not just the boss. That's why we're demanding a fair contract now!"

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🚨🚨BxD Union needs your help!🚨🚨 🔎Can you help us find these missing @BronxDefenders executives? 🤔They’ve been absent from almost every bargaining session since March, slowing down negotiations. 🗓️We bargain again on Mon. 6/10. Check back in then to see who shows up!
White text on a black background reads: "MISSING EXECS - Help us find the pictured executives missing from bargaining sessions." Beneath that text, there are headshots of BxD's executive management team, as well as white text on a red circle background that reads: "REWARD: GOOD-FAITH BARGAINING!" At the bottom of the image, white text on the black background reads: "CALL BXD'S UNION WITH ANY INFORMATION 1-800-CONTRACT-NOW"

ALT White text on a black background reads: "MISSING EXECS - Help us find the pictured executives missing from bargaining sessions." Beneath that text, there are headshots of BxD's executive management team, as well as white text on a red circle background that reads: "REWARD: GOOD-FAITH BARGAINING!" At the bottom of the image, white text on the black background reads: "CALL BXD'S UNION WITH ANY INFORMATION 1-800-CONTRACT-NOW"

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SENS-UAW@SENSUAW5 Jun 2024
🔗 bit.ly/tns4palestine ✍️✍️✍️
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We also call on our employer @BronxDefenders, which claims to be committed to "radically transforming" the "justice system," to end its silence regarding this recent wave of violent arrests of protesters, which even peer organizations have condemned. (2/2)
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Today, The Bronx Defenders Union-UAW Local 2325 voted to release this statement condemning repression of pro-Palestine speech, calling for charges against protesters to be dropped, and reaffirming our commitment to Palestinian liberation. Read it @ tinyurl.com/bxdunionstatemen… (1/2)
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