rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/form/stand-with-the-scholars-strategy-network-ssn-union?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-form-area-stand-with-the-scholars-strategy-network-ssn-union' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Nonprofit Professional Employees Union https://actionnetwork.org/groups/nonprofit-employees-unionifpte-local-70 https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/share_options/facebook_images/000/246/401/original/ssn-unionv2-07-09-20.png Background We, the eligible staff of the Scholars Strategy Network (SSN), announced on Monday, June 29th that a supermajority of staff have signed cards to form a union and authorized the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU) Local 70 to be our representative. To our great disappointment, SSN leadership have declined to recognize our union voluntarily, missing our stated deadline to do so. Therefore, we are calling on our network of scholar members, other organizational stakeholders, and our former staff to sign a letter in support of our fight for a more democratic workplace. SSN management’s decision not to recognize our union means that they plan to drag out the process by sending it on to the National Labor Relations Board, making us reconfirm our votes in spite of our established supermajority. This would be the first time in NPEU’s over 20 year history that a nonprofit workplace organizing with their representation would not be voluntarily recognized by management. Your support for the below letter will help us convince SSN’s leadership that it’s time to stop delaying the inevitable and recognize the Scholars Strategy Network Union. Thank you for your support! And follow our union on Twitter @SSN_union To: Scholars Strategy Network Management & Steering Committee, We, the undersigned SSN members, civic and community leaders, and former SSN employees call on the Scholars Strategy Network leadership to recognize the union recently formed by a supermajority of SSN’s eligible employees. We believe in the organization’s mission and vision, and hope to see SSN continue to grow and thrive for many years to come. We believe a union for SSN employees will help accomplish these goals and we urge you to voluntarily recognize the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union as the representative of SSN’s eligible employees. While working to strengthen democracy across the country, it is justifiable and admirable that SSN employees should endeavor to make their own workplace more democratic. A union will allow SSN staff to use their combined years of experience organizing scholars to build a more effective, democratic organization. SSN employees support and expand research-based decision making at every level of government, and so it follows that they should seek the benefits of unionization—which are well-documented in research—for themselves, their future coworkers, and the organization as a whole. We are confident that this effort will make SSN a stronger and more effective organization. We are grateful for your consideration. Respectfully, (Signers will be added on a rolling basis) SSN Members Civic/Community Leaders and Organizations Former Employees https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stand-with-the-scholars-strategy-network-ssn-union