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Matt:                    Yeah, absolutely. Union Labor Works is most interested in learning more about our industry for the latest and the greatest, our clients business, the trades, and the construction industry. Make sure you have all your bases covered. The state’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board adopted the rules shortly after California’s passage in 1975 of the nation’s first law allowing farmworkers to join unions. This is what we talk about, all the time. Drew:                   That was one of those things where you have an idea, and someone's like, "That's great, somebody should do that.". Ondine:               I don't remember having these conversations, at all, in school. Matt:                    Yeah. Put the social back in social work, unionize. Drew:                   Yeah. Drew:                   Here, in Kentucky, we saw this past year a resurgence of teacher organizing, with our shit head Governor talking about how teachers ... Basically, threatening their pensions and all this. To start, unions for all — for you, your friends, your enemies, your Twitter followers, the last person you came within six feet of during your daily social-distanced walk. Do you work in a DC 37 title? Ondine:               Folks listening may be wondering, well, then, how do I start a union, how do I join a union? I am wondering what resources there are to support a foreign-degree social worker who is trying to do the required course work to...earn an American degree, but keeps getting a different story for what is actually required. Matt:                    Yeah, pretty much. benefits, privileges, and employments of the world" (Taft, 1964, p. 87). Drew:                   For white people. Social work, as we know it today, started with these movements. Ondine:               There are unions, right, that represent service workers, but they might work in a lot of different settings, right? Ondine:               I'm glad you asked that question. During our more than fifty years of existence we have provided diligent representation to our membership, which now includes more than nine hundred employees of the County of Monroe in upstate New York. Then sign up today for a voice in your union and your workplace. Drew:                   It's that social part. Another union worker, 48 years old, who must remain lowkey, says Trump is “the first president I voted for, rather than just voting against the other guy.” Eric, a 51-year-old member of United Steelworkers Local 14200 in Marietta, Ohio, says he and his coworkers at their plastic plant are so supportive of Trump that they wear Trump 2020 stickers on their helmets at work. Drew:                   Just because they're not tangible skills doesn't mean they're not hard, that they're not important. The Guideline can be used by other people to define professional standards of experts in social sphere and students of social … Across most developed nations, labor union membership is getting rarer. They allow union representatives onto farmers’ property for an hour before work, an hour after work and during the lunch hour, for up to 40 days a year. This association publishes a directory of accredited programs. Matt:                    Yeah, absolutely. This critical work has become less of a focus for the current generation of social workers. Yeah, of course, right? MSWs also do trench work. rise in value of money, prices of items drop. Social workers help people solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives. Ondine:               We will get into this a bit more, but I think social workers often see themselves, in a lot of ways, as white collar professionals, which may or may not be true. Ondine:               This is part of the role of the union organizers, to help the employees figure out what those bases are, right? Yeah, absolutely. They're called Right to Work. Yeah, I think that should do it for us, huh? Worker organizing is a big thing for me. So, I'm a meat cutter, there's a guy at the back door that receives all the shipments, there are produce people, there are baggers and cashiers. LSTU-L 200 Survey of Employment Law (3 cr.) I might be able to help one person, but there are 10 other people that I just don't get to help, they still are going to get evicted. I might, in a seven-day period, be all that stands between somebody getting an eviction ordered against them or not. It was really, really fun. You can't just say, "Oh, we're going to throw all this money into opiate addiction.". It really was about the poor care that patients and clients were receiving. The centre of expertise covers legal, regulatory, economic and policy aspects of employment and labour markets, including reforms, in the 28 Member States, European Economic Area (EEA) countries, candidate countries and potential candidates eligible for participation in the Progress axis of the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation. Social workers not only worked in cooperation with labor activists during the New Deal period, but they also joined labor unions. That's where you really get mass manufacturing, and the big factories with all the machines in it, and that sort of thing. Drew:                   A little haunted ambiance, for your October spirits. Matt:                    Yeah. Ondine:               Lastly, they say, "There's no therapeutic model that will make a huge caseload tenable. Drew:                   Sometimes, going to people's homes. Drew:                   The shortest 50-minute reading of it, ever. I don't have a good disaster analogy for it, right now. Everyone was agitating for shorter work hours, because there was a time when people worked 12 to 15 hour days. Whether or not they're there is not going to effect whether or not bad services or harm is being caused. What I was learning was that the Settlement House movement, the folks on that side of the fence, were teaming up with Labor at the time, to really support the work. Matt:                    Yeah, I would say, make sure you document stuff as much as possible. Although such benefits were minimal, their provision by unions signified that attending to the social welfare needs of members was as important a func- Labor union definition is - an organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions. Drew:                   How does that correlate, if you can make the correlation, between the output of traditional trade labor services, versus social services, and that output being affected? Much of the child welfare work done by social workers was efforts to end child labor. I pulled a brief, or a fact sheet, from the AFL-CIO on social workers and unions. I'm wondering: are you able to tell us which union you belong to as a clinician? These six documents are required reading for anyone who wishes to understand Catholic social teaching on labor… They definitely need a union. Social Work and Labor Unions. Drew:                   The more you work, you're actively, actually, getting less pay per hour. Drew:                   That segues into, I think, the more specific aspect of social work with this. That the organizing conversations that were coming from the Settlement House movement, these folks were supporting striking workers, and the people in Hull House came together to form three unions. Ondine:               Some wins? Many union workers are blamed for a lack of revenue, especially when it is a public union, and this political animosity can be experienced in real life. They can, then, go to the larger organization, as needed, about any conditions that you face, right? Thanks. I don't mean to put all the pressure on the employee, on the worker, but that's what the employer is going to do, right? I don't know. She's like, "Oh, I won't listen to it until there's 15.". Thanks, Matt, for joining us today, so you can help us fill in the gaps around history around labor unionizing, and labor organizing. Drew:                   They do. I just want to say that hierarchy is bullshit. We protect and support social work professionals. Matt:                    Right. The Settlement House movement was really about social change, and policy initiatives, particularly for women and orphans. As admission requirements and program orientation vary among schools, interested persons should consult the directory or communicate with the school of their choice. Ondine:               Matt, I'd love to invite you into the conversation, at this point. :)love 16 Alex, Today is Labor Day in the U.S. - a day set aside to recognize and the American worker. That there aren't unions for professional workers, which I know is not true, but that shaped my thinking. Specifically, UMSWs, like myself, out there. BASW has grown by 26% over the last three years, is genuinely independent, genuinely led by social workers, and has the only union exclusively for social workers. Drew:                   Especially since we cover that stuff, already. Matt:                    Yes. We'll talk a bit more about this, about how often times, our labor is undervalued, actively, because we're told we didn't get into this job to make money, we got into it to help people. Ondine:               Is this the seventh episode, or the eighth? So, childcare cooperatives. It just should not be left out. Labor scholars are in general agreement that gradual trends in the economy and the world of work, the global context of industry and the practice of outsourcing jobs to non-union workers and other countries, the decline of manufacturing, and growing political and ideological opposition to unions all contribute to diminished union membership (Aronowitz, 2005). Matt:                    Mm-hmm (affirmative). Matt:                    Yeah, bargain for better wages, better benefits, better working conditions, that sort of thing. Like I said, they can start to ask for exceptions, and so can exclude people on these grounds, or these grounds, or whatever. Technically, it's illegal, but if you work in an at-will state, like our state is, they can fire you for trying to organize a union, and just say they're firing you because you were consistently late, or something like that. Although the relationship between social work and organized labor dates from the turn of the century, labor union membership has only been open to social workers since the late 1930s. Consequently, the relationship between the profession and the unions is still in its infancy. Matt:                    So that you don't have to know every detail of that, yourself. We see lots of good things out of unions, throughout this history. Ondine:               As I was continuing to learn about this, the article that I'm looking at right now, which we will link and share for you all, then talks about the Charity Organization movement, which Mary Richmond is the person we associate the most with that, a social worker. Your fellow worker is never your enemy. Consequently, the relationship between the profession and the unions is still in its infancy. Ondine:               And not think it affects them. Like I said before, there are unions that are very specific about a particular trade, or a particular profession, right? Drew:                   You're listening to Decolonize Social Work, a conversation about social work, oppression, and liberation. In a lot of cases, they were recruited, or forced to go into these factories, weaving, shoe making. Discussions will highlight the relationship of our work lives to our non-work lives and will look at U.S. labor relations in a comparative framework. I stumbled upon a really cool article, written in The Socialist Worker, by a person named Erica West, who is a social worker in Oakland. This episode, we talk to a union organizer about the benefits of labor unions, why social workers specifically should seriously think about labor unionization, and a few things to expect if you do wanna take the first step at starting a social worker labor union. Drew:                   I don't think unwell workers are going to be able to offer services that are going to make other people well. There was a lot of organizing that came out of that work. If you need help, what resources can I give you? Matt:                    Before we begin maybe it's history, we'll talk a bit about the labor theory of Capital. You gain so much more by working together than you do by working against each other. Drew:                   It's not the social injustice fault, it's your fault. I learned a couple things that I did not know. The holiday is indelibly linked with the nation's history with labor unions, organized groups of workers than band together to increase their bargaining power and relative influence compared with "management." Does that make sense? Drew:                   Yeah, I feel like I've failed people. Drew:                   Do you have any guidance, or suggestions from your own experience, about what could be done to curtail, or protect against some of those risks or retaliations? ". Drew:                   Imagine that? Just make sure that you're doing everything by the book, and that you're not giving reasons. There are more than 60 unions representing more than 14 million workers throughout the country. Work Environment. Ondine:               There could be more of a focus under that on what are the actual jobs we would do, right? Whether it's separation of families, separating families because people are going to prison, or even internally, separating collaborative, unionized work, that's all Colonizer bullshit. Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama have filed a petition to hold a union election, setting the stage for a high-profile labor battle inside the online retail giant. Actually, it's really this bad. We've got a Governor's race, here in our state this year, so getting out and talking to people, and making some space. Ondine:               A lot of the folks that we work with have been stripped of power, because of institutional racism and oppression, and because of the Capitalist machine. Drew:                   This social work stuff doesn't work if we're just replicating those hierarchies that just tear apart our society already. Ondine:               Right. Improving working conditions and that sort of thing, basically, improved the rest of your life. Drew:                   It's not our reality. That's 1886 is when we get that. Matt:                    They're getting it. I completed a masters in social work which - of course - included an internship at a non-profit mental health agency and my husband also has his masters in social work and his chemical dependency license. Ondine:               So, for a profession that's already super, super underpaid, I think that has to resonate. The state’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board adopted the rules shortly after California’s passage in 1975 of the nation’s first law allowing farmworkers to join unions. Drew:                   Walking dogs. Drew:                   Thanks, man. BASW provides vital protection for social workers, including advice and representation, as well as professional development services – from free events to the only printed magazine dedicated solely to social work. No matter what you do for a living, there's a union … Ondine:               Trench work. Matt:                    Then, coming back together when they start to see that it only benefits us when we're together, right? I could go on an on as to how the profession is treated poorly. In the 1960s, an upstart union of New York City social workers forged alliances with welfare recipients while fighting to improve public services at the bargaining table. There was a specific meat cutters union. They say, "Social workers and mental health professionals are often exploring the best and newest ways to support our clients. Drew:                   Also, this is a topic for a different episode, but it also leads me to wonder to myself, if a different work model all together is a better option, such as a cooperative? Ondine:               I think it's ... Everybody's in a different place with their understanding of this history. Social workers routinely talk about how overworked and underpaid they are - but why does it have to be this way? Your best bet is usually to tap into one of those. Note: This episode was recorded in October 2019, so while the conversation here is pure and timeless, please excuse a couple of out-of-time mentions about the Kentucky governor's race - cuz that already happened! Specialize social workers in how to work at these relationships, and become a little bit more focused and trained on being labor organizers. Drew:                   That this person gets evicted ... it's not the system's fault. Ondine:               Well, we're on our way. Absolutely. While the profession of social work and the labor movement have moved in different directions since the post-WW2 era, recent events, such as the dominance of managed care and cuts in government financing, have led social workers to rediscover unions as potential political and workplace allies. SOCIAL WORKERS aren’t a profession that we typically think of as being part of labor, but that has the potential to change. Ondine:               Mm-hmm (affirmative). Some have called social workers the janitors of Capitalism. Drew:                   Some crooning. He is also just a couple of months away from earning his LISW credential. Drew:                   We have to get out of that, and thinking more, focusing more, on the collective good, not just on the inside, internal operations of our social work, but also what that's going to do to our clients. Ondine:               I want to add that, not everybody with a Master's level Social Work, MSW, is in an admin job. Drew:                   Hey, if you are a social worker in a union, get in touch with us. A collection of reflections for those learning and practicing psychotherapy, and clinical social work more generally. A couple things that stood out to me, that reinforced this conversation we're having. It's people forgetting where they came from, right? If anyone is interested in exploring forming a union in their workplace, we'll drop some links and some resources for you, so that you can explore that. Matt:                    In a lot of cases, that's exactly what the employer wants you to do, is to fight each other. I think we have to sit in that ethical dilemma a little bit and realize, you're not the Catcher in the Rye, you're not going to save everything, it can't just be on you. The Union of Social Workers is part of the General Federation of Labor, and is the only organization authorized to act on behalf of the social worker vis-a-vis government ministries, local authorities and other employers to improve workers’ salaries and employment, Social Development. "Like teachers, social workers are underpaid, despite working incredibly hard, and facing the worst consequences of Capitalism. It is very evident, however, that the program of social work, especially in its governmental aspects, is receiving immense reinforcement from the present vitality in the trade-union movement. Social workers spend a lot of time researching, talking about, and working together to come up with ways we can better serve our clients and communities. Ondine:               Can I form a union, even though there's just five or six of us? This certainly shouldn't be the last time. I think they a couple of things that are just ... As I was making my notes, I made all kinds of Xs, and exclamation points, because I thought they had so much good stuff to say. Drew:                   It sounds like, in the initial stages, the more discreet you are, the better perhaps? Matt:                    Yes, absolutely. Drew:                   Thank you. Exactly. OSLO — Some 262 oil service workers at Schlumberger’s Norwegian unit plan to go on strike from Dec. 3 if annual negotiations with employers over pay and working conditions were to fail, the Safe trade union said on Thursday. I think there was an early recognition amongst labor organizers and workers that the way that you work, and your work conditions, very much influence the way that you live, and the way that you can treat the people around you. Ondine:               Yeah. Matt:                    Yeah, exactly. Bye. Drew:                   That's your tshirt, right there. I'm a recent MSW grad exploring the question of unionization in social work, and I haven't found much information about models currently in practice, so I'm curious to hear how yours works. Social & Community Services (SACS) The ASU is the largest union of workers in the social and community services (SACS) sector. Ondine:               Sure, sure. A presentation at the National Conference of Social Work May 23-29, 1937. Ondine:               Then I would have thought. Labor unions can have a poor public reputation. Ondine:               After the Affordable Care Act passed, they didn't honor the mental healthcare parity piece. But, we need to start thinking about our own power, in organizing ourselves, as a way to mitigate the social conditions that Capitalism creates. 7. Ondine:               When you have a salaried worker, like a social worker, you just have to work until the job is done. Matt:                    Yeah, I'm trying to think. That there will be more harm done, if we don't show up to work, our clients and our patients will suffer. I have a lot to say about trauma informed care, and the buzzword that has become. Ondine:               I was thinking about this in the context of places I've worked, where I've done direct case work with clients. Ondine:               That's okay. 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