Virginia Beach City Workers Union, UE Local 111

We won $15/hr min wage for @CityofVaBeach workers! After two years of building our union, lowest wages will now increase from $10.87 to $15. We also won a Step Pay Plan w years of service recognized for all workers too!! Onwards to winning collective bargaining! #organizethesouth

SIGN: bit.ly/dontdelaycb On 4/13, Gov Spanberger added significant amendments to the collective bargaining bill that would water it down and delay it. Send a letter to your elected officials today telling them that we won’t accept our human rights being amended or delayed!

BREAKING: The new collective bargaining bill for public workers across VA passed both the House & Senate vote today! There are problems in the bills that need to be worked out in conference committee. But today we made history! #organizethesouth

BREAKING: VA public sector collective bargaining bill has passed the Labor & Commerce and the Appropriations committees & and is headed to the floor of both chambers today! Let’s keep pushing until we get #unionsforall #collectivebargainingnow #organizethesouth

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

UE150 members speak out at State Treasurer demanding DIVEST our pension from poorly returning Israel government bonds. Public workers deserve good returns on our investment & not bombing Palestinian homes, school & hospitals! #breakthebonds #divestfromgenocide

🚨Picket Alert🚨 We are joining city workers in @PortsmouthVa to demand city council stop dragging their feet - pass a collective bargaining ordinance now! #thecityworksbecausewedo ✊🏾Informational Picket 📆Every Tuesday, 5:30pm until we win! 📍Portsmouth City Hall Week 1:

✊🏾LABOR DAY 2025✊🏾 Join us for this important discussion on the fight for collective bargaining rights in the 757 for workers and their communities. We want dignity, family supporting wages with one job, affordable healthcare, and safe working conditions for all workers.

The North Carolina Public Service Workers Union, UE Local 150 stands in solidarity with the Philadelphia City Workers of @afscme33 members after their nine day strike for living wages. Even LL Cool J cancelled his July 4 show in support! Full statement: ue150.org/uncategorized/…

“America has #NoKings! Our rights to free speech & assembly are under attack. The city of LA is fighting for their community. Families are being torn apart. People are being taken from courthouses, their jobs, & even schools,” Tee @RaiseUptheSouth at SWA Action Summit Rally in SC

🔥✊🏾Johnaca Dunlap from Spartanburg Workers Assembly & UBUNTU kicks off the SOUTHERN WORKER ACTION SUMMIT as hundreds gather !! “We know what it feels like to be ignored, surveilled, fired and locked out while the billionaires live above the laws and commit the real crimes.”

Over the next ten days counting down to the Southern Worker Action Summit in South Carolina, we will be sharing why it’s so important to organize the South See you in South Carolina!

Today, UE's General Executive Board voted to endorse the No Kings mass protest that will be taking place June 14. You can find an event near you here: nokings.org

The U.S. and global economy does not move without the labor of Southern workers. Join us at the SOUTHERN WORKER ACTION SUMMIT 📆June 13-15 📍Spartanburg, SC ✊🏿Build Power to Fight Trump & Fascism ✊🏽Skill up in Workshops ✊🏾Hear from workers from Mexico, Cuba, Palestine + more

How many times do we have to say it? Workers won’t stand for cuts to essential services like Medicaid and food assistance, just so billionaires can get ANOTHER tax break!

ICYMI: Winsome Earle-Sears pledged to support corporate CEOs over hard-working Virginians. Not surprising from the candidate who ❌ Wants to lower wages ❌ Opposes paid family leave ❌ Cheers when Trump fires Virginians ❌ Opposes the freedom to collectively bargain

Charlotte union members spoke out at budget hearing for $25/hr, 6% raise & affordable housing. “We are living in a time that it is difficult to dedicate ourselves to city work & afford all the other things that everyone else is afforded,” said Robert Davis, President CLT UE150

📢 Southern Worker Action Summit | June 13–15 | Spartanburg, SC
Rank-and-file workers from across the South are gathering to strategize, train, and build power. Join us to advance solidarity and a fighting workers' movement! Learn more: southernworker.org/summit

Last night was 🔥🔥 25 city workers in sewer, water, sanitation, parks & rec, fire and teachers stood together to deliver hundreds of petitions to demand: ✊🏿Fully Funded Step Pay Plan ✊🏽10% COLA ✊🏿CDL differential ✊🏽Daily overtime & … ✊🏿Collective bargaining!

🚨HAMPTON ROADS: ALL OUT FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING🚨 2025 is a major year for us to win CB ordinances in Portsmouth, Newport News, Norfolk & beyond but we must be United!! Join us: ✊🏿P-Town City Hall- 4/7 5:30pm ✊🏽Norfolk Budget Hearing, Granby High 4/9 5:30pm

At the Salem VA Medical Center, DOGE fired a disabled veteran despite excellent performance ratings. "This has put my wife and I in a terrible place mentally and financially...I'm being told by HR that I have basically lost everything." Read their story: afge.org/article/trump-…