#workers collective

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Meow Wolf Union Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaints

Vitu, T. (2022, January 21). Meow Wolf union files unfair labor practice complaints. Yahoo! Finance. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meow-wolf-union-files-unfair-160200823.html

Teya Vitu writes: "A year-old union representing some Meow Wolf employees in December filed unfair labor practices complaints against the company with the National Labor Relations Board...'This came after multiple attempts to resolve issues directly with the company,' the collective stated on social media."

"The workers collective's list of complaints includes:

Meow Wolf changing holiday and time off policies without negotiating.

Requiring new employees to sign an agreement in order to be hired without negotiating the agreement with the collective.

Refusing to provide critical information needed for the contract negotiation process."

"Meow Wolf issued a written statement in response to the complaints. 'We are aware that the MWWC/CWA has filed unfair labor charges with the NLRB and we are awaiting further details as to the nature of the charges at this point in time,' the company said in the statement. 'Meow Wolf has been negotiating in good faith with the Union and we anticipate reaching a final contract soon.'"

Additional Information

Oliveira, A. (2022, January 20). What Happened When a Trippy Art Collective Hit It Big—Then Unionized. The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/165071/meow-wolf-union

Meow Wolf Workers Collective. Union for Meow Wolf. https://www.unionformeowwolf.com/

Meow Wolf Workers Collective. Twitter. https://twitter.com/MWWCNM

Meow Wolf Workers Collective. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/mwwcnm/

Photo Source: Cytonn Photography. (2018). Contract [Photograph]. Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/GJao3ZTX9gU

[art-and-revolution]

i miss our local worker co-op vegan restaurant / organic grocery / political bookstore 😩

[solarpunk-gnome]

Left Bank Books Online Store

Collective 101

Left Bank Books is a collectively operated business. This means that we have no boss; we are our own boss. The core staff is composed of roughly six paid members. We are responsible for bookkeeping, invoice payment,        ordering, taxes, lease negotiations, volunteer coordination, marketing, and general store maintenance. We also have approximately twenty weekly volunteers who work at the store in exchange for discounts on books, and learning how to run an independent bookstore. History as a Left Bank volunteer is required to be hired for a paid staff position.

In 1973, Left Bank Books was founded by a small collective. In the late 1990s Left Bank Books became registered as a federal corporation. This transition was made namely so that in the event of financial difficulty at the store, individual employees would not be held financially responsible. Left Bank Books is not federally registered as a non-profit.

WHY A COLLECTIVE? So, why work in a collectively run business, and not one with a hierarchical structure? In our collective individuals are equally empowered to make decisions related to the store. We prioritize        sharing knowledge and information with each other so that no one person possesses all the information about a particular task. We prefer to work in a non-hierarchical setting. All decisions are made through an informal consensus process. This means that all decisions are discussed until collective agreement is reached.

[lighterary]

He had the look of a lawnmower just after the grass has organized a workers’ collective.

Jingo by Terry Pratchett