Management does this tired little anti-union song and dance every time because they know they have something to lose, and because workers have a lot to win. Unions belong at Penn!

✅ and no anti-union website would be complete without a little threat of hard bargaining… because who doesn’t love an employer who promises to fight them for years at the bargaining table? 🙄

✅ more third-partying (“if AFSCME wins”) ✅ scare tactics about dues, which we’re guessing library workers know they would pay only after they successfully negotiate and ratify a contract that leaves them better off

✅ and presenting websites full of classic anti-union talking points as neutral sources of “information” or FAQs

Still ticking many of the usual boxes: ✅ Conflating workers with mgmt (“As librarians and staff of Penn Libraries, *we*…”) ✅ Third-partying the union (“We respect your right to engage or not engage with a labor union”)—um, you are talking to the labor union, i.e. librarians

Imagine 4 years after a global uprising against police brutality spending so, so many emails and words trying to convince very smart people that the riot police are safer for them than their peers they disagree with chanting.

We further condemn the administration’s abuse of the student disciplinary system in summoning numerous students to disciplinary meetings on specious grounds. Please read more in our linked statement.

This repressive action was a violation of the University’s Guidelines on Open Expression and a cowardly, shameful attempt to silence and punish speech that administrators simply do not want to hear.

A WKCR reporter is describing how much more damage NYPD caused to Hamilton Hall than the protestors

While the details of the anti-D.E.I. crusade are extraordinary to see so directly stated, this should surprise no one. And the threats from billionaire CEOs at Penn, Harvard, and MIT are of a piece with the DeSantis agenda