Pledge to Shop union for Back to School
Please join BATs and UFCW as we stand in national solidarity to tell everyone to shop union for Back to School and all year long!
Pledge to Shop Union!
I pledge to shop union and NOT to shop at non-union stores like Walmart or Hobby Lobby. Many non union stores and their foundations support the privatization and destruction of public education
Whereas non union stores have supported
The expansion of for profit charters to the tune of $1 Billion
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/teachers-union-blasts-walmart-for-its-back-to-school-promotion/2016/08/12/8be9d30c-60b2-11e6-9d2f-b1a3564181a1_story.html
Teach for America and their program to place unqualified teachers in our most neediest districts (replacing qualified teachers and teachers of color)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/27/walton-foundation-teach-for-america-walmart_n_910615.html
An agenda that has been horrific to their workers, women, immigrants, LGBTQI, and does not allow them to unionize. http://reclaimdemocracy.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/walton_philanthropy.pdf
http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/10/11/judge-yes-hobby-lobby-discriminated-against-illinois-trans-woman
https://thinkprogress.org/breaking-hobby-lobby-wins-right-to-refuse-to-cover-birth-control-561fb18b0904#.c9jk3dm5l
Many anti public education organizations as seen here https://dianeravitch.net/2015/09/23/who-got-money-from-the-walton-family-foundation-you-might-be-surprised/
School choice which does NOT offer choice at all, it removes it from parents and from communities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/03/17/the-walmartization-of-public-education/
Removal of a teachers right to due process http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/us/teacher-tenure-is-challenged-again-in-a-minnesota-lawsuit.html?_r=0
Be it therefore resolved, on this 23rd day of August, I pledge to shop union for my Back to School supplies and all year round.
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