How to Show Your Solidarity
- The National Education Association is the largest labor union in the country—when we unite and speak truth to power, we can and have made an enormous impact in our communities.
- Use this toolkit to share your #SolidaritySummer message. Let's embrace this season of action, amplify our impact, and shape a brighter future for our members and the labor movement.
Solidarity is a verb!
Ways to get involved:
APFA
Flight Attendants across the industry are fighting to raise the standards for their careers.
Starbucks Workers United
Learn how NEA is helping Starbucks Workers United push for fair wages and respectful working conditions. Together, we can make change happen!
Unite Here Local 11
Since the pandemic, the region’s largest economic engine, the tourism industry, is celebrating record profits while hospitality workers are overworked, fighting to stay housed and alive.
United Auto Workers
It’s time for non-union autoworkers to join the UAW and win economic justice at Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Tesla, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Volkswagen, Mazda, Rivian, Lucid, Volvo and beyond.
Find a Picket Line!
Working people want safe jobs with good health care, flexibility, sick leave, and where they feel respected and valued. Check out the AFLCIO's map to see where workers are on strike across the country.
Stay informed with what's going on...
Through solidarity with the shared struggle of workers across our nation can we build a more just nation for our students, our families, and ourselves.
The number of striking U.S. workers more than doubled in 2023
Forget the "summer of strikes," 2023 was a full year of walkouts: The number of workers who walked off the job surged by 141% last year from 2022.
The Hammer: Unions Are the Tool to Fix Income Equality and More
Author Hamilton Nolan sits down with us to excavate the past, present, and future of the labor movement—and our union's role in the movement.
U.S. Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965
71% of Americans now approve of labor unions.
Why Solidarity Matters
The actions of union members and their communities across this country have been nothing short of inspiring—and NEA is there every step of the way!
THINGS TO REMEMBER!
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Educators are Workers
We work hard every day to improve the lives of our students. We stand united as workers so that our students, their families, and our communities have the protections, rights, and resources they deserve, and that they need to thrive.
With nearly three million members, we are the largest labor union in the country. Our greatest strength is each other. We are part of a proud history of workers coming together to improve their working conditions and the lives of their communities.
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Solidarity Forever
We believe that solidarity is a verb. As educators of all races and from all places, we have the power to push policies that improve our public schools, challenge oppressive systems, and create a more equitable and inclusive society. When we speak together, our voices are too loud to ignore.
Only through solidarity with the shared struggle of workers across our nation can NEA reassert what a union member looks like in the effort to build a more just nation for our students, our families, and ourselves.
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From the Beginning
NEA is a union. Throughout our organization’s history, our members have organized for the right to be legally protected at work, for example, educators in Virginia recently won the power to collectively bargain for the schools they and their students deserve: better classrooms, salaries, and planning time.
Learn more about NEA's Labor History!
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History of the National Education Association and the U.S. Labor Movement
This history of America is the story of the workers who built it. The labor movement has inspired more than the immediate interests surrounding someone’s job—it recognizes that no matter where we’re from or what we look like our society is more just and fair when workers have a voice in the decisions that impact them, their families, and their communities.
Only Getting Stronger
The vast majority of Americans approve of labor unions and the labor movement is only going to grow in numbers and in power. This summer more Americans will likely take part in labor action since 2019. We've also seen first-ever unions formed at REI, Trader Joe’s, Kickstarter, and Medieval Times.
71%
Data from Gallup's annual Work and Education survey
of Americans now approve of labor unions
75%
Data from Gallup's annual Work and Education survey
of workers ages 18 to 24 would vote to join a union.
77%
Data from Gallup's annual Work and Education survey
of Americans 18 to 34 approve of unions.
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Join Our Movement
We ask only what is right: equal opportunity for every student, every educator, every family. At home, in school, online, in Washington–there’s a right place for all of us to make a difference.
Talk About Your Union
With more members, we can have an even stronger voice to raise wages, improve working conditions, and create the schools our students deserve. Learn how to communicate about union membership and the meaningful changes won by educators in your area and across the country.
