Financial support:

• AFT Disaster Relief Fund 
• Verified fundraisers for people affected by the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas 
• The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District created a bank account at First State Bank of Uvalde where people can send funds directly to shooting victims and their families. Funds can be sent electronically through Zelle using the email robbschoolmemorialfund@gmail.com or through the mail at the address 200 East Nopal St., Uvalde, Texas 78801. Make checks payable to the “Robb School Memorial Fund.”
• The City of Uvalde set up a separate fund to which people can mail checks payable to the “Robb School Memorial Fund” to P.O. Box 799, Uvalde, Texas 78802.
• Uvalde Victims Relief Fund 
• Uvalde Strong Fund Uvalde Strong is an emergency relief fund to support area nonprofits providing much needed assistance, including mental health services, in the Uvalde community. Charitable donations to this fund are fully tax deductible. 

You’re invited to watch the Young Worker Town Hall with AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on May 26 at 4 p.m. CT. The event will be livestreamed.

Young Worker Town Hall
Thursday, May 26, at 4 p.m. CT

Remarks by:

• AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler
• Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh (virtual)
• NFL Players Association President JC Tretter (virtual)

We are in an unprecedented moment of young workers rising up and taking action in their workplaces across industries nationwide. They’re seizing this moment and building the future of the labor movement. The town hall, hosted by AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham, will be held in Minneapolis, where young workers have led a series of successful organizing drives over the past two years. The event will be livestreamed on AFLCIO.tv.

RSVP now to watch the livestream and learn more about these young workers and their successful organizing drives.

OAKLAND, CA (May 16, 2022) – Employees at Impact Justice ​(IJ) overwhelmingly voted to ​form a union with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 29 on May 13, joining thousands of nonprofit employees across the country represented by OPEIU's Nonprofit Employees United (NEU).

Their union, Impact Justice United (IJU)​, sought voluntary recognition from the organization's leadership in February, but after management's concerted attempts to stall and disrupt the process of good-faith negotiations, the bargaining unit filed for an election with the NLRB. Ultimately, a near-unanimous majority (23-3) of eligible employees voted to unionize to make their workplace a more equitable, collaborative and safe environment.

"Having worked at Impact Justice for more than four years, I have seen many employees struggle to change systemic issues within our organization," Kaid Ray-Tipton, a senior program associate at IJ​, said. "I see Impact Justice United as a continuation of previous efforts to ensure our daily practices are living up to our core values of imagination, integrity and liberation.”

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Today’s worldwide celebration by workers, of workers and for workers is a potent reminder of the collective power we share when we — as those who work for a living — stand united in pursuit of a more dignified future for all.

We remember today the historic and heroic struggles waged by generations before us: for an eight-hour day, for a minimum wage, for overtime rights, for the abolition of child labor, for the weekend, for Social Security and more.

But we also know those hard-fought gains are backsliding. Working people are working more for far less. Basic necessities like healthcare, housing and food are, for many, becoming increasingly out of reach at the worst possible time. Younger generations have, on average, little hope things will improve in their lifetimes.

We believe the only way to reverse those trends is by organizing.

OPEIU’s commitment to prioritize organizing the unorganized has paved the way toward historic wins in new industries, amplifying the voices and improving the material conditions of workers in the nonprofit and tech sectors.
Through their union — our union — workers who long had no collective voice now have a vehicle to take power into their own hands.

Read more about recent OPEIU wins across the nation in the first issue of OPEIU Connect, our official magazine.


Happy May Day.
In solidarity,
Team OPEIU