Skylight Booksellers Union

📚 representing the booksellers of @skylightbooks, est. 2021, affiliated with @cwaunion 🌹🥖

[Amazon Labor Union IBT @amazonlabor]

It’s official‼️Amazon Labor Union is the first Amazon union in US HISTORY‼️POWER TO THE PEOPLE! #UnionStrong #ALUfortheWin

[Daisy Pitkin @daisypitkin]

For Literary Hub, I got to recommend some books that center what it’s possible to build, even as we fight to dismantle.

[Daily Union Elections @UnionElections]

UPDATE: Final tally for today with 6/10 boxes finished at #JFK8 election is 1518-1154 OR +364 votes IN FAVOR of joining @amazonlabor.

Final 4 boxes will be opened tomorrow.

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

At the stroke of midnight, over 1,000 @MineWorkers at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama will have been out on strike for an entire YEAR.

That’s:
365 days on the line.
Hundreds of protests.
Thousands of union children learning to stand up for what’s right.
One day longer.

[Half Price Books Workers United (MN) @HPBUnionMN]

Great coverage from @RacketMN here!

"We really hope this lights the fire . . . and it becomes a nationwide knock on the door . . . have you ever raised your expectations and realized you could be asking for more?"

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#HPBUnion #MNBookstoreUnion #HalfPriceBooks

[KQED News @KQEDnews]

Many consider Berkeley's Small Press Distribution vital to the nation's ecosystem of independent publications.

But last December, a former employee came forward with their story, sparking a reckoning about how the nonprofit treats its workers. https://t.co/0azgF9LCBr

[Skylight Booksellers Union @skylight_union]

All power and solidarity to @DUPWorkersUnion 🤝

.@DukePress respect the vote!

[DUP Workers Union @DUPWorkersUnion]

UPDATE: On Wednesday, @DukePress & @DukeU management petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to invalidate the results of our union election & hold a new election at an unspecified later date. 🧵

[The New Yorker Union @newyorkerunion]

BREAKING: We have averted a strike! After more than two and a half years of negotiations, @newyorkerunion, @p4kunion, and @ars_union are proud to announce that we have reached an agreement in principle on our first contracts. Here are some of our wins:

[The Bird Union 🪶 @thebirdunion]

Cheers to New Yorker workers! Way to show us all what is possible when you stick together and don't give up. These contract terms 😍

[Skylight Booksellers Union @skylight_union]

Tell me you work at a union shop without telling me you work at a union shop

[Skylight Booksellers Union @skylight_union]

@jollenelevid @skylightbooks Thank you for your support! ❤️📚✊🏼

[modernsara @modernsara]

Huge congratulations to @skylight_union and welcome to our @CWAUnion family! The only thing I love more than independent bookstores is *union* independent bookstores. ❤️#1u #solidarity

[Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe]

You love to see it. Great work! Solidarity with you all.

[Carol Kim @carolkimSD]

Welcome to the union, sisters and brothers! #UnionStrong #1u #independentbookstores @skylight_union

[Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers]

Bookshop workers across the country are unionizing!

[Poets & Writers @poetswritersinc]

#DailyNews: @believermag reveals the winners of this year’s #BelieverBookAwards; booksellers @skylightbooks form @skylight_union; @TXCommArts selects @CassellsCyrus and @thepoetmendez (aka @houstonpworg!) as ’21 and ’22 state poet laureates. More stories: https://t.co/g2XhIgc6LB

[Daily Union Elections @UnionElections]

Another union win in retail!

[Megan Svoboda @MeganFreedom]

book store workers of the world unite <3

[BSC Workers Union @BSCworkers]

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