How to Show Your Solidarity
- The National Education Association is the largest labor union in the country—when we unite and speak truth to power, we can and have made an enormous impact in our communities.
- Use this toolkit to share your #SolidaritySummer message. Let's embrace this season of action, amplify our impact, and shape a brighter future for our members and the labor movement.
Solidarity is a verb!
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Why Solidarity Matters
THINGS TO REMEMBER!
We work hard every day to improve the lives of our students. We stand united as workers so that our students, their families, and our communities have the protections, rights, and resources they deserve, and that they need to thrive.
With nearly three million members, we are the largest labor union in the country. Our greatest strength is each other. We are part of a proud history of workers coming together to improve their working conditions and the lives of their communities.
We believe that solidarity is a verb. As educators of all races and from all places, we have the power to push policies that improve our public schools, challenge oppressive systems, and create a more equitable and inclusive society. When we speak together, our voices are too loud to ignore.
Only through solidarity with the shared struggle of workers across our nation can NEA reassert what a union member looks like in the effort to build a more just nation for our students, our families, and ourselves.
Interested in donating to strike and hardship funds for AFL-CIO sanctioned strikes can help keep workers in the fight.
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (Nationwide; Writers' Guild, SAG-AFTRA)
SAG Foundation Emergency Assistance Fund
- Provides emergency assistance for SAG-AFTRA members.
- Provides emergency assistance for all workers impacted by film and motion picture shutdowns, regardless of union affiliation. Note: Earmark your donation to go to emergency assistance for film and television workers.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette (Pennsylvania; The NewsGuild, CWA, Teamsters)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Strike Unity Fund
- Provides strike assistance to journalists, typos, and other union workers on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Hotel Association of Los Angeles (Southern California; UNITE HERE)
UNITE Here Local 11 Strike Mutual Aid Fund
- Provides strike assistance for hotel workers on strike in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Wabtec (Pennsylvania; UE)
- Provides strike assistance to UE Local 618 and 506 workers on strike in Erie County.
Three Brothers Coffee (Tennessee; UFCW)
Coffee Workers of the South Strike Fund
- Provides strike assistance to Three Brothers Coffee workers on strike for a first contract in Tennessee.
University of Michigan (Michigan; AFT)
Grad Workers Strike Fund (GEO AFT-Michigan Local 3550)
- Provides strike assistance to graduate employees on strike at University of Michigan.
Medieval Times (California; AGMA)
Medieval Times Performers United Strike Fund
- Provides strike assistance to Medieval Times performers on strike in Southern California.
International Flavors and Fragrance (Tennessee; BCTGM)
- Provides strike assistance to IFF workers on strike in Tennessee.
NEA is a union. Throughout our organization’s history, our members have organized for the right to be legally protected at work, for example, educators in Virginia recently won the power to collectively bargain for the schools they and their students deserve: better classrooms, salaries, and planning time.
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History of the National Education Association and the U.S. Labor Movement
This history of America is the story of the workers who built it. The labor movement has inspired more than the immediate interests surrounding someone’s job—it recognizes that no matter where we’re from or what we look like our society is more just and fair when workers have a voice in the decisions that impact them, their families, and their communities.
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