Sarah Knowles

social safety net policy researcher. @UrbanInst_Union views are my own. she/her

[Amanda Hess @amandahess]

We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.

[DCist @DCist]

Update: The owners of Politics and Prose hired Jones Day, a law firm known for its aggressive anti-union tactics, after declining to voluntarily recognize their workers’ union. https://t.co/FXhbW1p5oC

[Sarah Knowles @sarahknowles24]

solidarity always with P&P union!! very disappointed in @PoliticsProse for hiring a union busting firm 👎

[Politics & Prose Workers Union @PolProseUnion]

We’ve received some big news:

[Politics & Prose Workers Union @PolProseUnion]

THREAD: We, the workers of @PoliticsProse, have decided to form a union.

https://t.co/vECNHRiluF

[Kolby Koeck @KolbyKoeck]

All roads lead to amazing fall colors and mountains down here

[Sarah Knowles @sarahknowles24]

@KellyCDwyer @wmata @PoPville

[ACLU Staff United @ACLUStaffUnited]

It’s been three months since we asked for union recognition from the ACLU.

That’s three more months without a say in our working conditions.

That’s three months farther from the protections all workers deserve.

It’s time for management to stop stalling.

[Urban Institute Employees' Union @UrbanInst_Union]

We are thrilled to see over 135 supervisory @urbaninstitute staff publicly support our right to organize! We are grateful for their letter and once again urge @swartell and Urban Institute leadership to voluntarily recognize our union.

https://t.co/1tU8KKYiE9

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Congratulations to the Urban Institute and Brookings staff for for organizing @UrbanInst_Union and @BrookingsUnion with @NonprofitUnion. I hope other workers in nonprofits follow their example and join a union. Now more than ever, we need a strong labor movement for all workers.

[Urban Institute Employees' Union @UrbanInst_Union]

We look forward to good faith engagement with @urbaninstitute management that hopefully leads to voluntary recognition of our union.

[Sarah Knowles @sarahknowles24]

Very excited and proud to be a part of the newly formed @UrbanInst_Union!! I stand in solidarity with my colleagues as we work to cultivate a more inclusive and equitable workplace. Looking forward to voluntary recognition! @urbaninstitute

[Urban Institute Employees' Union @UrbanInst_Union]

Good morning! We just informed our management that a supermajority of eligible @UrbanInstitute staff have formed the Urban Institute Employees Union, organized with the @NonprofitUnion. Read our press release here:

https://t.co/J4iVK7p1RI

[Sarah Knowles @sarahknowles24]

:)

[Sarah Knowles @sarahknowles24]

@simssav yay!! huge congrats 🎉

[Capitol Hill Books @chbooksdc]

DC. Call in sick for the rest of the day and go read in the park. History will exonerate you!

[Sarah Knowles @sarahknowles24]

@originalficus so on brand! and how it’s validating why I didn’t get along with the coaches being retweeted like huh I knew there was a reason I didn’t like you lol

[a "Black-passing" Latina. @aliciasanchez]

DC is more than Capitol Hill and the White House. It’s a place where people live. It’s Piscataway land, it’s Chocolate City (forever), home of go-go and mambo sauce, Salvadoran food and Little Ethiopia. It’s DC residents and workers who are bearing the burden of this moment.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

I’d say that this has been the week of white supremacist violence, but that’s literally every single week.

[Elliot C. Williams @ecwilliams30]

Wednesday's events were traumatizing for so many of the DC-area's essential workers. @colleengrablick and I spoke with some of them to get a sense of what their days/nights have been like this week. (TLDR: it's been hell) https://t.co/2jxwtzV6yV

[FreedomFightersDC @FFDC202]

There are over 30 police forces in DC. THIRTY!

This is unlike any other state! The fact that they were able to breach the Capitol is a grotesque display of white privilege! They took selfies and hand walked them out the building!

If this does not outrage you, what will!

[Sam Sanders @samsanders]

Hundreds of thousands of DC residents had to endure a coup in their backyard today, go into curfew at 6pm, and fear for their personal safety. None of them have any representation in Congress.