Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:59:17 +0000
wikipedia, union, nyc, crownheightstenantunion

A quick update on what I've been up to on #wikipedia (mostly #union related stuff in #nyc )

The first is the #crownheightstenantunion . When I first came across it, shortly before my ban from trans topics, the article was a stub and only 1 paragraph long. I got derailed working on it dealing with my case, having originally planned to complete it in February as part of an organized labor editathon, and ending up starting and mostly completing it this March. Can't tell a lie, I'm rooting for them lol - I've never heard a bad thing about them, either through reliable news sources or many comrades I asked before writing the article to see if they lived up to their public image. Put simply, they're fucking badasses and have been doing amazing work for almost a decade!

"The Crown Heights Tenant Union (CHTU) is a tenants union created in October 2013 to unify old and new tenants against the gentrification of the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood. The CHTU has pushed for local collective bargaining agreements between tenants and landlords to be written into the deeds of buildings that would regulate rent increases and codify repair and renovation standards. They also assist individual tenants, educating them on their rights and how to enforce them, lobby in Albany for better rent laws, and participate in direct action, targeting predatory equity real-estate companies they believe to be involved in illegal evictions and harassment tactics"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Heights_Tenant_Union

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crown_Heights_Tenant_Union&oldid=1053344254

I also recently heard the workers at the Hispanic Society Museum, which I loved going to as a child, had unionized and authorized a strike from some friends who live by it, so I added details about that to the Museum's article!

"In May 2021, workers at the museum filed their intent to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board, joining local 2110, the Technical, Office, and Professional Union, of the United Automobile Workers. In March 2023, after a year of negotiations for a union contract, the workers authorized a strike in response to the museum's planned reopening on April 6. The current contract would make staff cover their own health insurance premiums and deductibles, which had been previously covered. The union stated that proposed salary increases would not offset the costs of the loss of benefits and that the administration had left the museum short-staffed and the collection in jeopardy due to a lack of safeguards."