Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic

Official Twitter Account of the @UMichLaw Workers Rights Clinic.

Tweets by WRC students.

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Use this link for SWAG purchases! https://t.co/NIC8ilZSqE

Only 8 more hours until the online store closes!

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Today is the LAST DAY to order WRC Swag! Orders will start shipping out on June 16, 2021. Thank you to everyone who has supported our clinic! We are looking forward to seeing everyone rock their WRC gear!

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[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Today is the LAST DAY to order WRC Swag! Orders will start shipping out on June 16, 2021. Thank you to everyone who has supported our clinic! We are looking forward to seeing everyone rock their WRC gear!

https://t.co/hxtgf3gK5l

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Tomorrow is your last chance to order WRC Swag!! We have tote bags, t-shirts, and quarter-zips with artwork designed by recent clinic alumna @MariaSmilde '21!

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[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Happy Friday! Today, we want to celebrate our clinical director, @UMichLaw Professor @RachaelKohl! Since joining the WRC, she's represented hundreds of claimants, returned $4,088,455.75 to the community, supervised 326 hearings, won 316 cases, & changed countless students' lives!

[Andrew Stettner @pelhamprog]

These actions by GOP governors are based on the false claim that UI benefits are hindering the recovery. But the economy is steadily improving: new claims came in at just 514,000 (down 35k) last week, after being over 1 million each week for nearly a year, from 3/21/20 - 3/13/21.

[Andrew Stettner @pelhamprog]

When these 24 states pull out of critical federal UI programs, 1 in 4 workers on unemployment will lose $300 per week, and more than 2 million people will be cut off completely from life-saving aid.

[Andrew Stettner @pelhamprog]

We now have a bifurcated and unequal system when it comes to supporting workers. 1/2 of our states recognize the need for aid to continue until jobs return. The other half is cementing inequality between people who have been forced out of work and those who have not.

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

SPOTLIGHT! Since 2019, our wonderful teaching fellow, Andrea Van Hoven has returned $1,445,075.94 to the community, acted as supervising attorney in 94 hearings, and submitted 49 briefs!

She has also mentored countless students and helped to fill the clinic with joy & laughter!

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Stay cozy and celebrate the only legal clinic at @UMichLaw open to second-semester first year students with this Quarter-Zip by ordering it before June 2! #GoBlue. #LegalClinics It will ship RIGHT to your door.

Our logo was designed by clinical alumna @MariaSmilde!

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

What's blue and white and celebrates the only statewide free legal support for Michigan workers navigating unemployment insurance?

This tote bag, with student-designed artwork!

Thank you @MariaSmilde!

Get it before our pop-up store ends on June 2!

https://t.co/fljdJ3qQwY

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

This week, we are celebrating the hard work of the WRC with swag!! Wear your worker pride with these t-shirts, tote bags, and zip-ups and celebrate the Workers' Rights Clinic! The Store will be open from now until June 2!

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[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Since March of 2020, we've helped thousands of people and returned over $4 million to the community. And NOW, we can celebrate all this hard work with WRC SWAG with artwork by clinical alumna @MariaSmilde '21! Order between now and June 2!
https://t.co/fljdJ3qQwY

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Shout out to @UMichLaw Professor @RachaelKohl and Student Attorney Guus Duindam!!! Their brief led to a powerful reversal from Michigan's Court of Appeals. Their great advocacy was highlighted on @usnews!! #appellatetwitter #lawtwitter

https://t.co/artOAJol0L

[Lori Shemka @shemkalegal]

How often do you see this in a judicial opinion (reversing itself on reconsideration)?

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[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Many people cannot return to work because they:
-Are not yet fully vaccinated
-Have caregiving responsibilities
-Are looking to change their field of work
-Seek better wages and conditions
-Need money for gas, phone, internet to search for work
#FixUI

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Workers have the right to good jobs! A just economic recovery and return to "full" employment depends on many factors: increased vaccination; work supports like child-care and family care; and schools and day-care centers reopening. #FixUI
@UWUnited_ @NelpNews

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Workers should not have to settle for less. It is on Congress to #RaisetheWage & pass the American Families Plan with continued #UI. Corporations who have amassed more wealth than ever in the past year must respond and create job conditions worthy of working people. #FixUI

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

The #COVID19 crisis is far from over, especially in communities of color where unemployment rates are historically higher due to systemic racism. #FixUI

[Michigan Law Workers' Rights Clinic @MLawWRC]

Discontinuing pandemic unemployment payments won’t bring back jobs that disappeared.
It will prematurely and needlessly hurt workers, their families, and entire communities that are struggling against poverty. #FixUI

[The UI Guy @That_UI_Guy]

Excellent report out of @MLawWRC making the case for why the time to reform UI in Michigan is now.