ARCHIVE ACCOUNT • ReproJobs organized workers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements from 2014-2024
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ALT Dear ReproJobs Community, It is the end of an era. Today, we say goodbye. After ten years of organizing the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements to become a more equitable space for workers, we are sunsetting ReproJobs and leaving the work moving forward in your capable hands. Building this community has been one of the biggest honors of our working lives, and we are so proud of all we have accomplished together. You were always the backbone of ReproJobs. You made the community what it is. We are eternally grateful for all we’ve achieved together.
ALT We’ve sponsored over $150,000 in training, career counseling, and development funds to movement workers. Together, we’ve supported and trained hundreds of workers to establish unions in their workplaces, growing the union presence in this movement from three when we started in 2014 to over fifty-five now–and growing still! We’ve held this movement accountable to the values they espouse on paper and forced the movement to reckon with anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and exploitation. When movement leadership needed to be held accountable for its complacency in genocide, we organized nearly 800 repro workers to sign our letter calling for a ceasefire and an end to the genocide in Palestine.
ALT We know this moment is bittersweet. ReproJobs has been an integral part of our lives just as much as it has been in yours. We are so proud of the change we’ve created in this movement and look to you to carry the torch for the next decade.
ALT Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We could not have done this work without your courage, curiosity, critique, celebration, and commitment. We’ll see you in the streets! In gratitude and justice, ReproJobs
ALT Looking back at all we’ve achieved together, we beam with pride. We’ve increased transparency, requiring salary ranges in job postings, publishing salary analysis and data, and revealing deficits in movement benefits and policies on paid leave–empowering workers with information to back up their organizing and demands. We created a forum on our blog to discuss some of the most complex issues facing our repro workplaces today. We held free management trainings for hundreds of repro workers looking to be better leaders. We’ve distributed nearly $350,000 in direct aid to repro workers impacted by the fall of Roe and supported hundreds of workers through training, workshops, webinars, career counseling, and résumé services.
ALT This isn’t an absolute goodbye. Rather, it’s us fading back into the masses of repro workers, and allied managers, organizing for a better future for all of us. We’ll still be around. We’ll still be organizing beside you, just like we always have. In solidarity and labor justice, A Co-Founder of ReproJobs
ALT This isn’t an absolute goodbye. Rather, it’s us fading back into the masses of repro workers, and allied managers, organizing for a better future for all of us. We’ll still be around. We’ll still be organizing beside you, just like we always have. In solidarity and labor justice, A Co-Founder of ReproJobs
ALT This isn’t an absolute goodbye. Rather, it’s us fading back into the masses of repro workers, and allied managers, organizing for a better future for all of us. We’ll still be around. We’ll still be organizing beside you, just like we always have. In solidarity and labor justice, A Co-Founder of ReproJobs
ALT hrough July 31, 2024, we will continue: our newsletter social media programming answering your emails accepting applications for the Repro Worker Aid Fund Our career counselor sessions will continue, free of charge, through the end of 2024. Our website will live on into the future, but will not be updated after July 2024.
ALT We know this may come as a surprise or shock to a lot of you, but we think it’s the right thing to do. To be clear, this was our decision and our decision alone. It is a decision that we have been thinking about for nearly two years, and we felt that our 10th anniversary was the best time to bookend our work. We did not lose funding. We did not receive threats based on our political stances or our work. We simply believed that it was time to move forward and make space for new leaders who could dedicate the time and energy to this work, with fresh ideas, from a worker’s perspective.
ALT We are so proud of the work that we have accomplished with all of you. We are honored by the trust you put in us to support you as you dream up solutions for better working conditions during one of the most difficult political moments our movement has ever seen.
