PushBlack Workers United
who are we?
We are PushBlack Workers United (PBWU), a union of professionals dedicated to preserving Black history through storytelling.Today, our work—and the entire organization—is under threat.The very people who craft, code, and curate these stories are now targeted for layoffs, while executives, far removed from the labor, remain insulated and unaccountable.We say that’s not acceptable.And it shows in our wins so far. By organizing around collective care, PBWU has already:• secured voluntary recognition in record time, and
• removed a CEO through worker pressure
Our next step? Bargaining to make PushBlack live up to its own Black-liberation values instead of protecting unchecked power.Follow the Fight—push the button⬆️, then drop your email for updates and tools to organize YOUR workplace.Because this fight is bigger than us—it helps shape every worker’s dignity and future, including yours.
"You can't take anything without organization."
- A. Philip Randolph
Our Lineage
we stand on the shoulders of people who risked everything so we could have a voice—at work and in all aspects of life.
National book bans. Gutted DEI programs. A vestige of authoritarianism in this country's highest office. These aren’t just headlines. They're the backdrop for the same top-down processes showing up in our workplace. But we're fighting back in the tradition of Black labor organizers who turned personal struggle into collective power:
A. Philip Randolph spent 10 relentless years organizing the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and, in 1937, won the first Black-led union contract—proof that persistence can even bend presidents.
Fannie Lou Hamer connected voting rights to fair wages and built the Freedom Farm Cooperative, reminding the nation that democracy without economic dignity is an empty promise.
Memphis sanitation workers marched behind “I AM A MAN” in 1968, forcing city leaders to bargain over dignity, safety, and real pay.
Their fights live within us. From JFK8’s Amazon victory to the 2023 UPS and UAW wins, Black-led and multiracial coalitions keep proving collective power is also possible right now.Despite anti-labor bills and budget cuts threatening the histories we tell and the cultures we preserve at PushBlack, forming PBWU is our way of carrying the torch—transforming frustration into infrastructure, fear into community care, and one-sided layoffs into workers protection.
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