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Austin DSA stands in solidarity with as they fight for the wages that Texas teachers and school staff deserve!
Teachers cannot be underpaid and overworked any longer if we want a quality education system for all🌹
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We’re excited to support Rep. @jamestalarico's legislation that would significantly increase pay for teachers and school personnel in Austin and across the state. Let’s do what’s needed to get it passed this session! #TxLege
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Since 1979, Labor Notes has been equipping union activists with the tools they need to fight the boss and build working-class power.
Sign up to attend their Troublemakers School, coming to Austin in June of this year! labornotes.org/events/2023/te
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Austin Troublemakers School
Bringing together union members, shop stewards, & activists from around Austin (& all of Texas), a Troublemakers School is an incredible space for networking, building solidarity, & sharing successes.
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🌹 Join us for our monthly General Body Meeting this Tuesday, 1/24 at 7pm! 🌹
If you can't join us in a person, we'll plan to offer a livestream on Zoom.
RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/january
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🌹 Join us for our monthly General Body Meeting this Tuesday, 1/24 at 7pm! 🌹
If you can't join us in a person, we'll plan to offer a livestream on Zoom.
RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/january
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No surprises here!
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The group responsible for the imposter police oversight petition is almost entirely funded by the Austin Police Association.
They knew this was eventually going to come out, so why didn't they just admit it when reporters asked them about it months ago?
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No one should be punished for getting sick.
Sign the petition to send a clear message to mega-employer HEB: your workers deserve basic dignity on the job.
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As we enter the public phase of this union campaign, we ask that @findhelporg leadership respect our legal right to organize our workplace. We hope leadership sees this collaborative expression of purpose as an opportunity to support the inspiring growth of this company.
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In 2022, we organized the first standalone restaurants in the South in Austin, TX and Louisville, KY. We're just getting started. Here's our 2022 year in review as we prepare to keep changing our industry across America:
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San Marcos, Texas’s only gay bar, Stonewall, was closed suddenly without the employees being given advanced notice. Our friends in have asked that folks donate to this GFM, if they’re able to, to support the workers at the bar during this hard time. Please share! 🌹
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a GoFundMe has been set up for former Stonewall employees who are now suddenly left without income. Please consider boosting and donating! 
#TXST #SMTX gofund.me/cf7e32a6
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BREAKING: won their election, making them the FIRST official bargaining unit of and the largest certified video game studio union in the U.S. The company has formally recognized the union with . Historic win. What a way to start 2023!!🥳🎮🌱
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2022 was POWERFUL for members!
- 20+ newsrooms went on strike for one day or longer
- 1,999 new members joined our ranks
- 70+ workers got contracts
So, for 2023: A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MORE TO COME!
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Democratic socialist educators from across Texas are getting together to discuss how we can fight for better schools and education in 2023. Join us! 🌹
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Tonight is the night!
Join TX DSA Labor at 7 PM for our virtual panel discussion called “Education Workers Fight Back!”
The call features 5 democratic socialist educators and union members who are fighting for our schools this #txlege. #dsa
Link: tinyurl.com/TXDSALaborEduC
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Texas DSA Labor has BIG plans for 2023 but we need your 🫵 help to make them happen. To fight the far-right and build a just future, Texas needs more organized worker power. Are you ready to get in the fight?
Join us: bit.ly/TXDSALaborChat
#yallidarity #TrySocialism #dsa 🤠🌹
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Texas DSA has come a long way since then! Help us keep growing in strength and numbers in 2023 🌹💪 dsausa.org/join
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Y'all remember when we got this write-up in @TexasObserver in April 2018? Almost 5 years ago. Lot's of @DSA_NorthTexas comrades, past and present, featured in the preview photo for the article. @HoustonDSA and @austin_DSA are featured too!
texasobserver.org/red-state-soci
#yallidarity
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Want to help Texans in the extreme cold? Check out these folks:
Austin:
Dallas: Food Not Bombs DTX linktr.ee/foodnotbombsdtx
Ft Worth:
Houston:
Statewide: bit.ly/txmutualaid
Abortion Funds:
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It's time for the end of the year fundraising drive by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
EWOC runs on small donations from supporters like you. Can you support this critical work today?
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Former Alamo Drafthouse employee who accused company of union busting receives settlement
"Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself," said Ingrand. "Stand up for your rights because without workers, the work doesn't get done and businesses do not run."
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Hear ye hear ye! 📣
From tomorrow to Thursday, we are asking our supporters take part in phone + email blitz campaigns. If everyone sent even 1 email a day, the volume would be hard to ignore.
Access them here: bit.ly/union-scripts
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Education workers fight back! 🌹
Join Texas DSA Labor on Tuesday, Jan 3 at 7 PM for a conversation with 5 education unionists on the fight for public education in Texas!
Register at: tinyurl.com/txdsalaboreduc
#yallidarity #labor #publiceducation #texasschools #dsa #UnionStrong
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Austin DSA is holding it down at Mueller Farmer's Market telling people not to sign the phony petition and helping people rescind their signatures if they were fooled into signing. The canvassers are everywhere, but so are we!
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If you or someone you know signed a so-called "police oversight" petition within the last month, they were lied to! Go to equityactionatx.org and they can help get people's signatures removed. Do it before it's too late!
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Solidarity with worker-members who are embarking on a 3 day ULP strike at the Starbucks on Houston & St. Mary’s.
Don’t cross the picket line!
Texas DSA has your back!
#DoubleDownStrike 🌹☕️💚
#yallidarity #ULPStrike #Strike #UnionStrong #labor #dsa
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Starbucks workers are DOUBLING DOWN.
Starting today, over 1,000 baristas are walking out on a THREE DAY STRIKE, making this the longest collective action of our campaign yet.
#DoubleDownStrike
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Read about our labor action yesterday in today's @statesman!
Grad student workers, university staff, adjunct faculty, even tenure-track faculty are underpaid and overworked. Join us next semester!
#UnderpaidAtUT
#UTWorksBecauseWeDo
@CWA6186 @TXFacultyAssoc @AAUP twitter.com/meganmmenchaca…
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TONIGHT at 7pm: join us in celebrating our wins this year at our December General Body Meeting! We will have an in-person potluck and a Zoom option.
RSVP for Zoom link here: actionnetwork.org/events/decembe
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Solidarity with UT grad workers! They make the university run and deserve much better than what they're getting currently. ✊
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Graduate student workers, @UnderpaidatUT members and other advocates are holding a grade-in all day today in the UT Tower.
They’re asking for a wage floor of ~$36,000, cost of living wages and more. I + all other media have been *prohibited* from following them in the building.
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Pics from rally and grade-in at UT Austin with grad workers from .
Grad workers are overworked and underpaid! They deserve more!
Solidarity! 🌹
#yallidarity #labor #dsa
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. strikers took their picket to the home of their managing editor today. #scabby the rat scab, joined them on the line!
Solidarity! 🌹
Support their strike fund: gofundme.com/f/fort-worth-n
#UnionStrong #labor #strike #yallidarity #solidarity
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Today we are releasing our open letter to UT Provost Sharon Wood. You can find it here: drive.google.com/file/d/19wABqu
Meet us this Tuesday morning at 9:30 in front of the UT Tower, where we will gather before delivering the letter to Provost Wood at 10:00. (1/2)
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In the past couple days Austin City Council has voted to:
1. Increase your electricity bill
2. Give a huge raise to City Manager Spencer Cronk
In case you have any doubt where they stand.
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They wrote an article in Motherboard about Strikle.org which was developed entirely from scratch by Austin comrade in solidarity with the !
😱🌹💕 #strike #Yallidarity #solidarity #UnionStrong
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TODAY: workers at the NYTimes are on a 24-hr strike protesting the company refusing to meet their union demands.
don't cross their picket line. there's a #Wordle alternative today—and the solution is pretty satisfying.
from @chloexiang: vice.com/en/article/3ad
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Don’t want to cross the digital picket line in support of striking workers but want to play Wordle for the day?
Austin AFSCME comrade Chris has a solution for you! Play Strikle! 🌹
strikle.org
#strike #UnionStrong #Solidarity
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Let us know what we could have done better, and help us craft the Green New Deal for Public Schools campaign’s next demands by filling out our anonymous feedback form!
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This year we fought to elect working class teachers to AISD, and to create thousands of new union construction jobs in schools.
Find out how we did it and what’s next for the movement!
Join our Campaign Debrief at Black Star Co-op, Wed. 12/7 6-8pm
RSVP: tinyurl.com/mrypbth3
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Everyone behind this, including the Austin Police Association, needs to come clean.
Stay up to date on this campaign at linktr.ee/atxdivest22
Read our recent Red Fault article on this phony petition here: redfault.com/phony-police-a
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Right-wingers are attempting to coax voters into signing onto a phony "police accountability" petition that reads like a Austin Police Association wish-list
Here's what you need to know:
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A follow-up statement from our National Political Committee on the rail contracts and how to build power for workers on the rails and beyond. For the full statement follow the link. The NPC is organizing a mass call for members on the subject. 1/7
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We had a great time at our Southeast Regional Organizing Retreat with DSA comrades from the Carolinas & our amazing staffers ❤️ Time to rebuild the labor movement, run class struggle elections, & win a Green New Deal! Socialists are organizing the South!🌹
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If you want to find out how to get involved in the next steps of our Green New Deal for Public Schools campaign, or want to let us know what we could have done better, please fill out this anonymous feedback form!
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Interested in ecosocialism? 🌍🌹
Find out about Austin DSA’s victory in the Andrew Gonzales school board campaign, and the fight for union construction jobs in AISD!
Campaign Debrief at Black Star Co-op, Wednesday 12/7 @ 6-8pm —
RSVP + details here:
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