Image description: Light blue background with a pink heart in the center containing a graphic of a handshake. Text above graphic reads: “Hey Valentine, we’re collectively bargaining for your love!” And below the graphic reads: “To: VRS Interpreters, From: ASL Interpreters Union”

Hey Valentine! We are working much harder than your ex did to earn your love 💔🫢 Join us!!

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Image description: Purple background with text and two candy hearts. The text reads: “Hey Valentine, You can’t spell ‘UNION’ without” followed by two candy hearts. The left heart is yellow with the letter “U” and the right heart is blue with the letter “I”. Between the hearts is an ampersand symbol “&”. Below the hearts, it says: “To: VRS Interpreters From: ASL Interpreters Union”.

Happy Valentine’s Day from the ASL Interpreters Union! 💝

#ASLInterpretersUnion #UnionsWork #VideoRelayService #DeafCommunity #SignLangugage #ValentinesDay

Organizing Is How We Regulate AI in ASL - ASL Interpreters Union The move towards AI in ASL is led by hearing non-interpreters. This commodification of ASL—almost certainly dependent, like other AI models, on mining large amounts of data for large language models w...

"Organizing is how we regulate AI in VRS"

Artificial intelligence is becoming a bigger part of our day to day- and it threatens to take-over the VRS industry. Read more about the impacts...

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Square graphic with blue banner on the top and bottom. At the top in big black text reads, "WANT ONE OF THESE SHIRTS?!" In the middle are photos of two models wearing t-shirts. The left is a gray shirt with the ASLIU logo and the right is a black shirt with the ASLIU logo. Both shirts say under the logo, "EMPOWERING INTERPRETERS, EMPOWERING COMMUNITY." In black text in the bottom banner reads, "Join our Week of Action and we'll send you one!"

If you're a current VRS interpreter or Deaf/Hard of Hearing supporter, we'll send you one of our amazing union t-shirts if you agree to wear it and take a pic.

They're union-made!

Sign up here: bit.ly/asliu-week-of-action

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Submit your funniest, snarkiest, silliest union memes to be featured on our socials!

Rules:
- Submit by February 7th!
- Must be work-appropriate.
- Unlimited entries.
- Make them yourself! Be creative!

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An infographic with a light blue background titled "WEEK of ACTION" in bold black text at the top. Below, a central beige box with bold black text reads: "What might you see?" Lines branch out from the central box, connecting to additional colored boxes with text: - A blue box (top left) reads: "Press coverage." - A darker blue box (top right) reads: "A collage of our VI supporters TWICE the size of our last." - A yellow box (middle right) reads: "Release of VI wage data from our pay transparency survey." - A light blue box (middle right) reads: "In-person action in Washington, DC." - Another light blue box (bottom right) reads: "Gatherings of interpreters wearing union t-shirts." - A dark blue box (bottom center) reads: "Big public zoom meeting." - A yellow box (bottom left) reads: "Results of our meme contest & MORE!" At the bottom right corner is the ASL Interpreters Union logo featuring hands signing "union" with the text "ASL INTERPRETERS UNION" and "OPEIU" in blue and white. The second slide is the same graphic but in Spanish.

Get ready for our Week of Action Feb 24th- 28th!!
Here’s a sneak peek at what you may see 👀 Let’s make our voices heard!

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New Wage Data Shows When Workers Organize and Fight 'It Pays Off—Literally' | Common Dreams Union contracts negotiated in 2023 earned workers wage increases they haven't seen in over 35 years.

Wage and Cost of Living increases are extremely overdue for VRS industry, even after the FCC granted higher reimbursement rates to do so- VRS companies are not paying their employees an equitable salary. #LetsGetToWork
#UnionsWork #ASLInterpretersUnion

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