Call for voluntary recognition of Collective Alliance Workers
Board of Directors
To the members of The Alliance, coalition partners, and broader community:
The workers of The Alliance believe in what we do: fighting displacement, building power, challenging white supremacist systems, and organizing for collective liberation. Our commitment to this vision has led us to form an independent union, Collective Alliance Workers (CAW!), with support from the national Emergency Workers Organizing Committee.
We are standing up for a workplace where all Alliance staff are treated with dignity and respect. We are unionizing for the future of The Alliance, not just for a more sustainable organization for our members, but for an Alliance strong enough to apply our values internally. We stand by those values: collective power, shared leadership, community expertise, racial justice, intersectionality, intentionality, and abundance. As The Alliance website states: We are committed to uplifting community voice, elevating co-governance as a model for equitable decision-making, and disrupting inequitable power structures that uphold white supremacy.
We will build a workplace where shared leadership is seen as a strength; where our culture and structure set an example for how to transform the nonprofit industrial complex into something life-giving and empowering.
Today, we are calling on you as our community, allies, and fellow workers to stand with us by signing on to this letter of support asking our Board of Directors to voluntarily recognize our union.
In solidarity and collective power,
CAW!
Collective Alliance Workers
Charlie Barba
Genevieve Roudane
Juan Luis Rivera-Reyes
Owen Duckworth
Ricardo Perez
Sponsored by
To:
Board of Directors
From:
[Your Name]
To the Alliance Board of Directors:
I am writing in support of the workers of the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability, who are unionizing as the Collective Alliance Workers (CAW!), and are writing to you today to request voluntary recognition. CAW! is unionizing to stand up for the Alliance’s values and culture, and advance the mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the Twin Cities region to eliminate systems of oppression and advance our collective liberation.
I call on you to be a part of this next stage in the evolution of the Alliance by voluntarily recognizing the union.