@MITGradUnion

Local 256 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. Working to make MIT a better place for all grad workers!

 Cambridge, MA
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Joined October 2019
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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
MIT Graduate Student Union@MITGradUnion14 May 2024
We have launched a petition to demand the reversal of the unfair, unjust, and disgusting discipline against peaceful protesters. Join the 1500+ who have already signed!
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UE@ueunion24 Oct 2023
Steven Greenhouse writes that a “reset” of workers’ expectations, increased militancy, and a tighter labor market are contributing to impressive contract deals, including the “excellent” first contract won by UE Local 256 @MITGradUnion in September theguardian.com/us-news/2023…
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HGSU will be hosting a student forum for Cambridge City Council Candidates tonight at Emerson Hall 305, 6-9pm. Pizza served. Come learn about the candidates! Zoom option bit.ly/CambridgeForum
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Exciting news! @MITGradUnion just won a powerful tentative agreement for their first union contract; highlights include a 5.4% raise this year, a nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedure, and union security.
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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
UE@ueunion18 Sep 2023
Bunch of new UE local numbers just dropped #ue78th ueunion.org/ue-news/2023/his…
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🔥✊🏿 POWERFUL NEW VIDEO✊🏿🔥 Durham city workers protest low pay, Sanitation workers stand down for 6 days “When City Workers are under attack, what do we do? STAND ✊🏾UP✊🏿FIGHT✊🏾BACK!!” #NoCashNoTrash #TheCityWorksBecauseWeDo #OrganizetheSouth Link: youtu.be/GZTQTXz3_Lw?si=pGRD…

Durham Sanitation Workers 6-day Stand Down, Protest Low Pay!

From September 6-11, sanitation workers in the City of Durham stood...

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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
MIT Student Worker Alliance@MIT_SWA15 Aug 2023
MIT has announced they intend to close down STEAM and Koch cafes, erasing valued community institutions, leaving us with less accessible dining options, and taking union jobs! We will not accept this! Sign on here: forms.gle/m45VKpMTGTaeX6Du8

Save our community and our jobs!

MIT administration has announced that they plan to close down two more institutions of our community: STEAM Cafe and Koch Cafe. This is a blow to the fabric of our community and we won’t stand by to...

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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
Jack Rubien@JackRubien19 Jul 2023
Tens of thousands of grad students have joined UE just this year and today we are standing in solidarity of all our related fights. #UnionShopForUnionPower ! @ruth_e_hanna @HannahMargolis
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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
UChicago GSU - UE⚡@uchicagogsu19 Jul 2023
Union shop is how we guarantee that all workers have union membership, giving us the power to fight for the benefits and protections that we deserve! Grad unions across the country are coming together to say: No shop, no contract! #UnionShopForUnionPower
Union shop for union power poster.

ALT Union shop for union power poster.

UChicago GSU Bargaining Committee before our 4th bargaining session holding the union shop posters!

ALT UChicago GSU Bargaining Committee before our 4th bargaining session holding the union shop posters!

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GOLD-UE@GOLDartmouth19 Jul 2023
Join GOLD-UE today at Ramunto's at noon to learn about how grad workers across the nation are coming together to fight for union security!
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Join your NUGW comrades in learning about securing Union Power with a strong Union Shop today at 11:45! Organizers across all of UE's grad unions have been collaborating to transform power structures across higher-ed, and now is a great time to help that happen here at NU!
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Today, we stand with standing with @NorthwesternGW, @uchicagogsu, @GOLDartmouth, @MITGradUnion , and @StanfordGWU to demand union shop from *all* UE's on-going grad student contract negotiations ✊ We're standing together to say: no shop, no contract! #UnionShopForUnionPower
Union Shop for Union Power. TRU-UE is fighting for: A liveable wage, international work rights, effective grievance procedures, safe and reliable workspaces. We along with our siblings at Dartmouth, UChicago, Stanford, Northwestern, and MIT realize in order to win and keep these things, grad workers need POWER. POWER from union membership POWER to enforce our contract POWER to win the next contract. union shop is how unions build and maintain power, but universities are organizing against us. Grad unions across the country are coming together to face an existential threat against against organized labor in academia, and to change higher ed for the better. Get involved: Join the Contract Action Team - bit.ly/join-CAT. QR code. Logos from Dartmouth, Chicago, Stanford, UE, Northwestern, TRU, MIT

ALT Union Shop for Union Power. TRU-UE is fighting for: A liveable wage, international work rights, effective grievance procedures, safe and reliable workspaces. We along with our siblings at Dartmouth, UChicago, Stanford, Northwestern, and MIT realize in order to win and keep these things, grad workers need POWER. POWER from union membership POWER to enforce our contract POWER to win the next contract. union shop is how unions build and maintain power, but universities are organizing against us. Grad unions across the country are coming together to face an existential threat against against organized labor in academia, and to change higher ed for the better. Get involved: Join the Contract Action Team - bit.ly/join-CAT. QR code. Logos from Dartmouth, Chicago, Stanford, UE, Northwestern, TRU, MIT

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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
Teamsters Local 25@Teamsters2518 Jul 2023
Proud to stand in solidarity with @MITGradUnion. @Teamsters don’t cross picket lines, and if the union decides to strike at MIT, our members will honor the strike. That means the potential for a lot of deliveries to not get delivered! #teamsterslocal25 #cambridgema #mapoli
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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
New York Times Tech Guild@NYTGuildTech13 Jul 2023
Hot strike summer 🔥🔥🔥
Five multiracial arms holding one another meme with each hand as (clockwise): - Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh - WGA - SAG-AFTRA - UNITE HERE - Teamsters with "Fighting for better working conditions" in the middle

ALT Five multiracial arms holding one another meme with each hand as (clockwise): - Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh - WGA - SAG-AFTRA - UNITE HERE - Teamsters with "Fighting for better working conditions" in the middle

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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
Broad RATs United - UE@broadratsunited12 Jun 2023
We are the Broad Researchers and Technicians United – UE (Broad RATs United)! Stay connected with us as we, a group of early- and intermediate-career workers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, organize to improve our working conditions at the Broad.
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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
WHOI Grad Student Union@WHOIGradUnion1 Jun 2023
Today, #MIT’s bogus move against the @MITGradUnion to give raises to ONLY NONUNIONIZED WORKERS takes effect. Now, #WHOI’s policy has always been to follow #MIT’s pay structure for grad workers. When many students reached out to @WHOI asking how this move will affect them… 1/3
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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
UE@ueunion30 May 2023
“Key to the UE’s appeal for graduate workers has been its respect for local autonomy, emphasis on rank-and-file democracy, confidence in member-driven campaigns, focus on facilitating worker-to-worker solidarity, and old-fashioned, militant organizing” truthout.org/articles/one-sm…

One Small Union Is Stoking Much of the Militant New Graduate Worker Organizing

Stoked by an independent union, grad worker unionization is transforming the labor movement and progressive politics.

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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
BreakThrough News
@BTnewsroom26 May 2023
Last year, MIT grad students voted overwhelmingly for a union but they still don’t have a contract. After 8 months of negotiation, MIT offered a contract that the union says amount to a pay *cut.* The workers just voted NO.
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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
UNITE HERE Local 26@UNITEHERE2630 May 2023
Rally & Delegation at MIT last week. Cafeteria & Catering workers are United for a Fair Contract, and they're gonna fight until they WIN! @MITGradUnion
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MIT Graduate Student Union retweeted
Jack Reid@Jack_B_Reid5 May 2023
Is there a reason why we can't have a union shop like the other employee unions, @MIT? I mean, other than "But I don't wanna!"
Screenshot of an email showing the MIT GSU logo and reading: TL;DR MIT offered an effective pay cut, refused meaningful protections against harassment and discrimination, and rejected a union shop that would allow grad workers to enforce our rights and our contract. The bargaining committee recommends that graduate workers vote NO on the Institute’s current contract proposal.

ALT Screenshot of an email showing the MIT GSU logo and reading: TL;DR MIT offered an effective pay cut, refused meaningful protections against harassment and discrimination, and rejected a union shop that would allow grad workers to enforce our rights and our contract. The bargaining committee recommends that graduate workers vote NO on the Institute’s current contract proposal.

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