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/petition/support-neutrality-for-carmen-workers-collective?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-support-neutrality-for-carmen-workers-collective' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> IAM Carmen Workers Collective https://actionnetwork.org/groups/iamcarmenworkerscollective https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/328/542/normal/CWC_transparent.png We are teachers and staff at Carmen Schools of Science & Technology in Milwaukee, WI. We are organizing a union in order to create a more sustainable workplace, improve staff retention through financial fairness, improve transparency and accountability in the organization’s decision-making, and improve equity by giving underrepresented identities a larger voice in the workplace. We believe that our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions. Education should give all learners the opportunity to thrive and succeed, but this is only possible when teachers and staff receive the proper support. When teachers are not given adequate funding to do their jobs, when support staff are eliminated, when students do not have access to up-to-date, good-quality materials, and when school facilities are allowed to deteriorate, then it becomes impossible for our students to reach their full potential. Educational institutions both shape and are shaped by society. Education can reproduce structural biases and inequalities in our society, but it can also be a tool for eradicating those biases and inequalities. Carmen Schools have made it their mission to serve students of Milwaukee and prepare them to be advocates in the community, naming themselves after figures like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. In that same spirit and tradition, we are asking community members to support our efforts to unionize. Please sign our petition to Carmen CEO Jennifer Lopez and the Carmen Schools Administration requesting that they respect their employees' right to unionize in an atmosphere free from intimidation by committing to neutrality as their staff exercise their right to decide whether to form a union. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/2a943d6e8e3338582aba361bda08dd325b289a43