Bird Union graphic of a cartoon male Greater Sage-Grouse with his fists raised. The words BIRD UNION! are above and below him. All is on a red background. Image by Maddox Wolfe.

Happy #MayDay from the Bird Union! Thank you for all the support. Solidarity with all workers around the world.

Audubon Science team is hiring! These positions are fully remote, full time, and represented by @thebirdunion.bsky.social. Salary ranges included in the following job descriptions

Senior Manager, Quantitative Science audubon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Audubo...

A meme featuring Patrick from Spongebob. He says, "Take the power from the bosses and give it to the workers."

Enjoy birding on the weekend? Thank a union. And a bird.

That’s right

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Hello new users! We’re the union for the hardworking folks at the National Audubon Society.

What is your favorite bird?

Animated gif of two American woodcocks dancing in place. They are brown, football-shaped birds with a long thin bill. The larger one is holding a pride flag with big white letters reading “BIRD UNION.” The smaller bird is holding a tiny trans pride flag. Credit: Alex Tomlinson.

Hello new users! We’re the union for the hardworking folks at the National Audubon Society.

What is your favorite bird?

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend. Thank you, unions.

Some of what we secured:

- Up to 7% salary increases per year
- $3450 bonus through the life of the contract
- Increase in Audubon’s contributions to healthcare costs
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave (up from just 2!)
- 17 shop stewards
- Just Cause Discipline
- Grievance and Arbitration Process

Some of what we secured:

- Up to 7% salary increases per year
- $3450 bonus through the life of the contract
- Increase in Audubon’s contributions to healthcare costs
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave (up from just 2!)
- 17 shop stewards
- Just Cause Discipline
- Grievance and Arbitration Process

Thank you, Asher

Incredible work by @thebirdunion.bsky.social, which persevered through an incredibly dirty fight with Audubon's management to deliver the organization's first ever unionized contracts. As a former Audubon contributor, I'm very, very proud of them.

Bird Union logo with a shrike in the corner. Text reads: CONTRACT UNANIMOUSLY RATIFIED! CWA 1180 Bird Union & National Audubon Society.

We are proud to announce that our membership voted UNANIMOUSLY to ratify a three-year contract, our union’s first!

More details to follow. We’re extremely grateful for all of the support you’ve shown us throughout the last 2.5 years of bargaining and escalations.

We are so grateful to our many community allies for your support of our essential conservation work and our union. We are calling off the strike scheduled for September 10-12th.

Bird Union strike shrike perched on barbed wire with a picket sign announcing that a tentative agreement has been reached with Audubon management.

NEWS: After more than 2.5 years of bargaining and mounting a nationwide strike threat, we have come to a tentative agreement with Audubon management. The 3 year deal is a direct result of the dedication and hard work of our membership. We will proceed with a ratification vote.

Thank you for your support and ten million thank yous from all our members for the strike dog bandanas! They got distributed so hopefully we can still enjoy some photos soon.

Almost unbelievable news. Cannot adequately express my gratitude and love for my colleagues who made this happen. A better world is possible.

We are so grateful to our many community allies for your support of our essential conservation work and our union. We are calling off the strike scheduled for September 10-12th.

Bird Union strike shrike perched on barbed wire with a picket sign announcing that a tentative agreement has been reached with Audubon management.

NEWS: After more than 2.5 years of bargaining and mounting a nationwide strike threat, we have come to a tentative agreement with Audubon management. The 3 year deal is a direct result of the dedication and hard work of our membership. We will proceed with a ratification vote.

Graphic with text reading “Audubon calls National Labor Relations Act unconstitutional” above a photo of a Loggerhead Shrike.

Graphic with excerpts of Audubon’s legal response to the NLRB complaint confirming their illegal behavior. The response says labor law is unconstitutional. Three headshots of notorious union busters Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Audubon CEO Elizabeth Gray adorn the graphic.

ICYMI: Audubon Society CEO Dr. Elizabeth Gray would rather join Elon Musk and others in attacking federal labor law as unconstitutional than settle the multiple Unfair Labor Practices that Audubon management has committed.

More here and below: cwa-union.org/news/release...

Audubon Society has rolled out superior benefits to non-union staff, in what many see as anti-union retaliation. 

“It feels like I have to choose between having a family and staying at this organization. And that is a lot of power to give your employer.” inthesetimes.com/article/bird...

The staff union for Audubon workers is here! However neither the official organization nor our union-busting CEO Elizabeth Gray are here.

Anyway we’re going on strike next week because Audubon keeps breaking labor law. They’re also joining Elon Musk in claiming the NLRA is unconstitutional 🙃

Birds of a Feather: Audubon Joins Elon Musk in Challenging Constitutionality of Labor Law After Violating Workers’ Rights The National Audubon Society took the extreme legal position that federal laws meant to protect American workers are unconstitutional. The claim, filed in a response to a National Labor Relations Boar...

I like working for Audubon… I don’t understand why our leadership wants to run a nonprofit this way. cwa-union.org/news/release...

Election Deniers in the C-Suites Workers can win union elections, but companies pull out all the stops to prevent them from obtaining a first contract.

EXCELLENT piece on the shameful union-busting tactics being practiced by REI, Starbucks, Trader Joe's and the National Audubon Society (!) and how the NLRB needs new tools added to its arsenal to fight them
prospect.org/labor/2024-0...

Thank you!

Thank you!

Join the Bird Union on Strike! Join Bird Union members on the picket line!

The Bird Union has been trying to negotiate a fair contract w/Audubon for 2 1/2 YEARS and they're going on strike next week.

Join a picket line: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Contribute to the strike fund: www.gofundme.com/f/support-bi...

Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Appalling multi-year battle against workers. When I say the Non-Profit Industrial Complex can f' right off, here's what I mean.

Net Assets of Audubon Society = $566,011,134*

Over a half a BILLION dollars in assets. Do you feel me now?

*June 2023 tax filing

Join the Bird Union on Strike! Join Bird Union members on the picket line!

I will wake up ass early to go join @thebirdunion.bsky.social on Tuesday because Wednesday I will be hungover from a debate watch party, and I’ll see what SAG solidarity gear I can find that isn’t collecting dust in the back of my closet. If you would like to join: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Just FYI, he wasn’t the founder, just a namesake. He was long dead when Audubon the org began in the late 1800s.

But regardless, we dropped his name from our original union name (“Audubon For All”) for the aforementioned reasons and then some. Thank you for amplifying!