(h/t to an anonymous user, who submitted this one)
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Our bargaining team wrapped negotiations for the month of December and gasp, the Trevor Project management pulled out their favorite trick from the anti-worker playbook! Once again delaying bargaining and withholding pay increases from its workers in order to coerce the union into their insulting deal.
In May, they announced company-wide layoffs just one month after our union won recognition. During effects bargaining, management intentionally began conducting layoffs without informing the union, which forced our team to agree to a weak deal in order to ensure our laid off workers received their severance pay without any delay.
This week, after a three-week stall on performance review pay increase bargaining, management returned to the bargaining table empty-handed. No attempt had been made to counter our pay increase proposal from our session on November 28. Instead, they tried to strong-arm the bargaining committee to accept their previous proposal, stating "if the union wants to resolve this today, it knows what it can do."
Under management's current proposal, a huge portion of our workers would have to wait 1.5 years without seeing ANY form of wage increase, disproportionately impacting our direct service workers who are on the 988 team -- workers who are spending the holiday season supporting LGBTQ+ young people in crisis while management gets paid holiday vacations.
By doing this, management has stalled any form of progress in bargaining and answers about pay increases for SIX weeks. Six weeks of worrying about the wages we use to keep a roof over our heads, to feed our families, to pay for medication and medical treatment... all of which management has shown they do NOT care about whatsoever.
But hey, management did get one thing right and it's this: we know exactly what we can do. And we're done playing their game[...]