Solidarity Union Network (SUN)

Dreaming of a union and working to make that very first connection with another coworker?

We see you. We love you. You're not alone, you got this.

Salute on International Working Women’s Day!

All solidarity to the woman worker around the world - especially trans women - in the store, home, factory, hospital, street corner, online, school, field, office and everywhere

For unions against patriarchy! 💜🚩🏴🧡 #8M

We need a unionism that considers societal safety a core issue alongside wages and benefits.

SUN stands with Anthropic workers driving AI protections from the bottom-up for individuals and communities the world over.

We stand ready for solidarity or mutual aid requests from any workers standing up for safety from within their companies.

We're thrilled to report out a big milestone: the inaugural SUN General Assembly will take place in California on the weekend of Feb 21 - 22

SUN started as a joint training space, evolved into a community of union builders, and now is an organization of emerging worker led-and-operation unions 🧡

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SUN is in full support of the city-wide stoppage in Minneapolis on Friday and will have members participating in solidarity from out of state.

We honor the lineage of this action including the Great American Boycott of 2006 and the movements in solidarity with Philando Castile and George Floyd.

No one has the collective wisdom and power that coworkers do to build unions that win and sustain.

As committed practitioners of designing and testing our own union models, we'll thrilled for workers to be able to connect with these tools.

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Circular union logo in black, green, red, and white. Internal is a broken in half babka within a gear...outer rim reads Breaking Breads Unions

We stand in proud solidarity with the Breaking Breads Union in NYC. SUN endorses their demands including a premium for baking overnight, safe equipment and ending material support for the Israeli occupation

They enter the great tradition of workers who have used their organized power against empire

We honor Renee's memory and commemorate her courageous service to the working class.

The most powerful response to fascist violence has always been the might of organized workers committed to freedom.

Let us redouble our efforts to build unions fit for the task...and stay active on the streets!

As a poet and a mom murdered in defense of the immigrant workers who were her neighbors, Renee Good joins the long list of labor's martyrs.

States are violent and working people have been among their chief victims, especially Black and Brown workers as well as the most underpaid white workers.

Remember when they called us stuck in the past when we talked about colonialism?

Anti-imperialist unions now

It's not just a nice-to-have or a good moral thing to do. It's essential to our mutual liberation

We’re happy to have had already planned for today a strategy formulation training. It’s on developing worker-to-worker, transnational campaigns against imperialism.

It is beyond clear that we need anti-imperialist unions and global coworker solidarity as much as ever.

A new gym membership is great and all but nothing beats starting off the year with a union campaign

Get in touch and we’ll do it together ❤️🎇

We can design and lead our own unions

We don't need higher-ups to answer to

We can do the same at our workplaces and in society

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Still, it's important to be clear that a solidarity union is a labor union backed by legal protections.

Employers, and sadly even some in the labor movement, who say otherwise are pushing a falsehood to try to create uncertainty in coworkers.

Now, none of this is to say that solidarity unions hang their hats on legal protection. We prevent retaliation through solidarity, strategy, and the energy to carry that strategy out. We seek to create conditions such that it would be irrational for the employer to fire anyone.

Section 7 protects the right to "self-organization" and to join "labor organizations"; to "bargain collectively"; to engage in "concerted activities" for "mutual aid or protection"

All of which applies to workers building solidarity unions

The legal protection to organize free of retaliation from the employer is found in Section 7 of the NLRA. Solidarity unions and their members have used it repeatedly successfully. Because there's no question that the protection applies to solidarity unionism.

Three laws define what a labor union is in the U.S. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), and the Internal Revenue Code. A solidarity union is categorically and indisputably a union under each one, just as much as a traditional union.

Myth 4: Solidarity unions are not legal unions and are not backed by legal protections

No doubt one of the biggest misconceptions about worker led-and-operated unionism

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Solidarity!

A call backed by 40 years of determined, independent unionism in Oregon agriculture ❤️‍🔥

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Black workers at the iconic camera and film company worked in solidarity with organizers in South Africa to wrest the company away from the apartheid economy and society. And they succeeded!

To have moral heart and strategic heft, we believe organized workers and unions must actively oppose colonialism and empire.

One of many great examples, this one in the tech industry, was the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement.

Boom, victory! 💥

Rank & file organization, strategy, strikes, and the credible threat of them is how we win gains and grow the labor movement

Congrats New Seasons workers!

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