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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

“An employer that knows the frustration of a patient who doesn’t have paid time off can turn around and fail to notice that their own employees run out of sick days before they’re halfway through the year.” - @clozilla.bsky.social 🔥✊

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Labor Rights Are Reproductive Rights

Burnout and sustainability are, ultimately, about labor rights. What could an abortion care workforce that can sustain itself look like?

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

“Repro workers are exhausted. ‘Burnout’ isn’t a strong enough word. They’re carrying so much…And what are they getting in return? Union busting, layoffs, and poverty wages” - @garnethenderson.bsky.social Time for the bosses to stop sabotaging their own stated goals

t.co

When Will Abortion Workers Get Their Hot Union Summer?

Repro workers are exhausted; "burned out" isn't strong enough. And what are they getting in return? Union busting, layoffs, and poverty wages.

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

rewirenewsgroup.com

Labor Rights Are Reproductive Rights

Burnout and sustainability are, ultimately, about labor rights. What could an abortion care workforce that can sustain itself look like?

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

t.co

When Will Abortion Workers Get Their Hot Union Summer?

Repro workers are exhausted; "burned out" isn't strong enough. And what are they getting in return? Union busting, layoffs, and poverty wages.

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

We are absolutely disgusted with All Above All management’s decision to lay off their entire staff, while keeping every single executive on the payroll, shortly after staff detailed anti-Blackness within the organization. Please donate to help support these workers www.gofundme.com/f/repro-work...

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Repro Worker Aid Fund, organized by Repro Workers

We are union workers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement--we work at clinics… Repro Workers needs your support for Repro Worker Aid Fund

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

A very good reason to defend sex workers today is they'll eventually treat you like a sex worker tomorrow

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Solidarity with organizers fighting to #StopCopCity, including those being criminalized ✊ We can never have true reproductive freedom or build effective worker power without abolishing the system that incarcerates people for pregnancy outcomes and violently breaks strikes!

Cop City will never be built
Abolitions is a reproductive justice issue
Solidarity is not a crime

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

When something bad is happening to one of the worst people u know 🥲

Bugs Bunny tux meme “I wish all Texas repro workers a very pleasant Ken Paxton impeachment”

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Did you love our collective letter for the labor movement (bit.ly/ReproWorkers) SO MUCH you wished you could carry it around with you in physical form? If you’re in New York, pick up our text in zine form at Bluestockings and Quimby’s! Proceeds go to the Repro Worker Aid Fund

A hand holding the zine Repro Workers: Labor Organizing for Reproductive Justice in front of a shelf of zines. Text below the image reads:
“Repro Workers
The Zine
Available at Bluestockings & Quimby’s NYC
Our share of proceeds will be donated to the Repro Worker Aid Fund”

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

This Labor Day, join us in supporting essential abortion workers who have been laid off or lost hours at work. Whether it’s abortion bans or union busting management coming for us, we’ve got us ✊ Donate to the Repro Worker Aid Fund! gofundme.com/f/repro-worker…

A papaya surrounded by the sentence “support the repro worker aid fund”

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Happy Labor Day to all the medical providers, receptionists, counselors, hotline workers, admins, financial planners, cleaning staff, accountants, fundraisers, legal workers, comms and education specialists, and everyone else who makes abortions happen! Our movement runs on LABOR

WORKERS (underlined for emphasis) MAKE ABORTIONS HAPPEN
Graphics of a medical provider showing a patient information about procedural and medication abortion, someone answering a phone with a mask, hands using a manual vacuum aspiration, and someone working with a calculator

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Helen Bolton @hbolton.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Happy Labor Day bbs we’re still raising money to help laid off abortion workers! It may have been over a year since Dobbs (and over 2 since SB8…) but we still have new bans taking effect in new states, and each of those means layoffs or at least cut hours www.gofundme.com/f/repro-work...

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Repro Worker Aid Fund, organized by Repro Workers

We are union workers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement--we work at clinics… Repro Workers needs your support for Repro Worker Aid Fund

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

We’re saying it loud, this Labor Day weekend and every weekend: LABOR JUSTICE IS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

A reminder this Labor Day weekend: every worker who wants an abortion should be able to have an abortion, in the manner of their choosing, in their own community, without restrictions, for free ✊

Graphics of various professions (waiter, nurse, chef, healthcare, construction, etc) surround text that reads “every worker who wants an abortion deserves an abortion”

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

"Construction workers see the most dramatic increases in injuries ... with the likelihood of injuries for them up by more than 20% during 85-degree-plus days. Workers in warehousing, waste management, manufacturing and food services also see increases in risk of an accident by 13% to 18%."

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Extreme Heat Increases Workplace Injuries, But New York Lacks Safety Standards

An analysis by THE CITY of workers compensation claims found thousands more workplace injuries, beyond those explicitly attributed to heat, on days 85 degrees or hotter.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 24/08/2023

For SELF, I highlighted the trans kids who don’t make the news, whose stories might go otherwise unheard: the ones who are already out there playing on teams with their friends, winning and losing without incident. www.self.com/story/trans-kids-playi…

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What It Looks Like When Trans Kids Are Simply Allowed to Play Sports

“There’s truly nothing quite like experiencing this beautiful, almost magical sense of belonging.”

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Cory Ellen @coryellen.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

THIS. *Stares in Massachusetts*

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

There are no “haven” states. Just because abortion is legal to a point in your state doesn’t mean people can actually get appointments in a timely manner. Abortion is time-sensitive. Fight for EVERY abortion patient like you’d fight for yourself. We’re all in this together, solidarity is all we have

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

The benefits of developing technology should accrue to us, the workers, through a reduction in how many hours we spend working, not to the bosses by helping them more efficiently extract exploit us

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

This is a terrible week for abortion patients and workers. Solidarity with our comrades today in South Carolina, and in Indiana, and everywhere abortion bans have been taking effect. If you're losing hours at work or getting laid off, you can apply for support here www.reprojobs.org/aid

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Worker Aid — ReproJobs

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Abortion is now banned in Indiana. Our hearts always break for the patients we serve and fight for when a ban takes effect, but we're also heartbroken for all the abortion workers who then face the prospect of losing their jobs or hours at work. Donate to help us support these essential workers!

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Repro Worker Aid Fund, organized by Repro Workers

We are union workers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement--we work at clinics… Repro Workers needs your support for Repro Worker Aid Fund

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

BREAKING: Graduate workers at Duke University have won a union. 2,500 student-workers have chosen to organize with Duke Grad Union, with 88% voting yes. They now form the first graduate union at a private university in the South.

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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

In a first of its kind ruling, a Montana state court ruled in favor of young people who allege the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi…

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Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision

“This is a monumental decision," said a lawyer for the young plaintiffs, and could influence similar cases in other states.

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

The anti-abortion movement will not be shamed by stories of young children giving birth against their will, because young children giving birth against their will is a success story for them. They stopped an abortion.

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

When a state bans abortion it is devastating for people who need abortions, but also for the workers whose clinics scale back or fully close. As union abortion workers, we’re coming together to have our comrades’ backs! Join us by donating and sharing www.gofundme.com/f/repro-worker-aid…

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Repro Worker Aid Fund, organized by Repro Workers

We are union workers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement--we work at clinics… Repro Workers needs your support for Repro Worker Aid Fund

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

Polls close at 7:30pm ET in Ohio! It's a battle over direct democracy. Which is *also* a proxy battle over abortion rights, but beyond that so much else will be affected by the result.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

wow: a state judge entered a temporary injunction barring enforcement of Texas abortion bans in cases of medical emergencies (as determined by doctors)! reproductiverights.org/wp-content/u…

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/08/2023

David French used to work for Alliance Defending Freedom, but some days at the NYT he still basically does

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/08/2023

👨‍🚀 laws aren’t real? 🔫 never have been

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

DeSantis's administration paid doctors tens of thousands of dollars to endorse restrictions on trans adults' health care and gave raises to state employees who went along with it, according to new documents unveiled in court. www.miamiherald.com/news/health-car…

Days before a state agency began researching whether transgender medical care for Floridians should be covered by Medicaid, officials started lining up experts known for going against the scientific mainstream. The resulting report and state rule revoked Medicaid coverage of treatments for gender dysphoria like puberty blockers and hormone therapy. It was thrown out by a federal judge, who in his June order called the rule an “exercise in politics, not good medicine.” Hundreds of pages of state employee testimony and internal agency records gathered as part of the federal case show how closely the state coordinated with consultants who have taken stances counter to major medical organizations on how to treat gender dysphoria. Those consultants were paid tens of thousands by the state. One grew friendly enough with a top agency official that he took to calling him “mighty Jason” and “J-man” over text messages.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article277853063.

Court testimony from state employees also reveal how an agency under Gov. Ron DeSantis veered from its own procedures to compile a report centered on a topic that has become a major plank of the governor’s presidential campaign. The state employee who was the lead author of the report testified that the process began with a request from the governor’s office. He also testified that he had not seen another instance of the state using this type of report to reevaluate treatments already covered by Medicaid. After the Medicaid report was completed, at least two Agency for Health Care Administration employees involved with it received raises well above the norm for their peers, state data show. “It seemed like a very politically motivated effort to exclude a group of people from coverage,” said Jeff English, a former agency staffer.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article277853063.html#storylink=cpy

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/07/2023

So—the Colorado website designer in the fake same-sex wedding website case, 303 Creative, it turns out, had made a wedding website, before filing her legal challenge. New reporting from me, thanks to a stellar tip:

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A Real Wedding Website in a Fake Gay Wedding Website Case

An archive shows that the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case did once design a wedding website, contrary to what her lawyers presented during her legal challenge.

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Helen Bolton @hbolton.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Come to this it will be fun and nice and you will be supporting people who went through absolute hell giving everything they had to make sure people can have abortions only to get laid off when ghoulish politicians shut their clinics down or their management decided to "restructure" by firing them

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Repro Worker Aid Fundraiser & Diaper Drive

Join us for light refreshments, good music, and community. Event is free and all ages w/ suggested donation - RSVP to secure your spot!

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my good bitch 💎 @clozilla.cryptoanarchy.network · 12/07/2023

This year the only birthday present I want is a Texas clinic keeping its doors open. Texans deserve clinics in their communities. Gift if you: - love me or hate me - think I’m OK - like any one of my cats - have ever texted me after 10 🔗 www.gofundme.com/f/protect-reproductive-care-support-awhc

a cartoon birthday cake with candles with a clinic popping out of the top. there is a raccoon holding a champagne glass wearing a birthday hat and a cat popping out from the side of the cake as well. a cartoon version of crystal wearing a birthday hat looks happily surprised. there are birthday party banners.

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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

The way these people are tripping on themselves to rebrand bans 🤡

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

“We can no longer accept a reality where half of Americans are denied reproductive freedom, bodily autonomy and the right to decide their futures. Instead of believing in sanctuary, we must act in solidarity.” 🔥✊

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There are no sanctuaries for abortion care, no matter what your state says | GUEST COMMENTARY

Their claims of safety are meaningless if their legal protections are fleeting and insufficient even for their own residents.

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

So exited for this, the first guest spot in my Substack, and it’s a worker writing about winning the first union at an NYC pizzeria!

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Why Unionize a Restaurant?

Barboncino Workers United and New York City's first union pizzeria

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 12/07/2023

2 weeks after the targeted stabbing attack on a gender studies course at the University of Waterloo, student Nadia Khan wrote about it for Teen Vogue. "How was it possible that in the same building where I first read texts like Gender Trouble, multiple people were violently attacked for the same?"

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I Thought My Campus Was Safe, Then There Was A Violent Anti-LGBTQ Attack

"Hatred doesn’t happen in a vacuum: when left unchecked, it spreads like poison."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/07/2023

As others have noted, this article may be studio propaganda to dishearten WGA folks, but a) it's just gonna piss them off more, b) it prompted me to donate to the Entertainment Community Fund. Fuck the studios, I'm paying for a WGA member's groceries today, gotta keep strength up on the picket line

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11/07/2023

Imp context from If/When/How on the criminalized self-managed abortion story getting a lot of attention right now—which has been described on here as something not worth challenging because it allegedly had nothing to do with Dobbs and/or was a a horrible crime unworthy of defense. Step back a sec:

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Tweet by @mlaurahuss

“🧵Last year, on the same day local news outlets broke the story abt a teenager & two helpers who were arrested for an alleged self-managed abortion (SMA), we at @ifwhenhow released new, preli...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12/07/2023

Underlining this: “Systems of state surveillance & control have no place in our reproductive lives, but that is not reality. We will use info & tools to challenge criminalization, enact protective legislation, & call b*llsh*t on claims that ppl who have abortions have never been criminalized.”

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Based in New York? Come on out and join the Center for Reproductive Rights Union (UAW 2110) and the Astoria Workers Coalition and help raise money for abortion workers who have been laid off since Roe was overturned! They'll also be collecting diapers for their host, the Astoria Food Pantry!

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Repro Worker Aid Fundraiser & Diaper Drive

Join us for light refreshments, good music, and community. Event is free and all ages w/ suggested donation - RSVP to secure your spot!

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Hateful lying dorks, every one of ‘em

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11/07/2023

The QAnon-adjacent alleged anti-trafficking group with the ridiculously self-serving film out now about them, Operation Underground Railroad? They copied the “legitimate” anti-trafficking org exposed here, International Justice Mission. IJM just puts on a better front.

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Children wrongly taken in raids backed by US charity - BBC News

Ghanaian children wrongly labelled as trafficked are being taken from their homes, BBC Africa Eye finds.

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