(2022 - 2023) The heiress to the Disney empire asked workers: How many of you know a coworker who needs food stamps?  How many have coworkers who need to sleep in their cars? How many know coworkers who went without medical care because they cannot afford it? Watch the video here.

A union organized to:

• provide a food pantry for workers who were still struggling to survive, especially when they are out on medical leave

• index hourly wages to the cost-of-living so that workers can increase family time, rather than working multiple jobs to make ends meet

Source: Gabriel San Román for the Los Angeles Times

(2018) Marriott union workers achieved:

• Panic buttons to improve worker safety when alone

• Lifetime bans on guests who sexually harass workers (Jomar: such a basic aspect of safety and human dignity - incredible that unionized action was needed to get this and during a time of record corporate earnings!)

• Better pregnancy accommodations

• Four (4) dollar increase to the hourly wage

• Pensions based on years with the company

• Improved scheduling of work hours and shifts

Source: Alexia Fernández Campbell on Vox

Any form of progress (unionizing, academics, athletic performance) will always involve the risk of failure and its sibling, fear.  The decision to join a union must always be a personal choice: a balancing between the burden of low wages & a toxic work environment and the fear of retaliation.  

Union WOLF guards against retaliation by keeping its members and supporters confidential until a secret ballot election is won.  Further, we stand ready to litigate unfair labor practice claims when appropriate.  "Without struggle, there is no progress."  Frederick Douglass (1857).