Blog - Nonprofit Employees United (NEU)

Why Workers at Progressive Nonprofits Are Unionizing

Workers at nonprofit organizations across the United States, like those from the Guttmacher Institute (pictured above), are organizing not only for better working conditions, but for a stronger progressive movement. Thousands of workers at progressive...

Q&A with TPIU

Employees at The Public Interest Network (TPIN) won their nationwide union via card check in March 2021. After two years of organizing, the group is excited to begin collectively negotiating their new union contract and win some demands that will benefit not just...

AJWS Union Wins First Contract

The staff union at American Jewish World Service unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement on March 1, 2022. The contract was negotiated over the course of six months by members of the bargaining committee with support from representatives of...

City Bar Justice Center Union Wins First Contract

The City Bar Justice Center (CBJC) Union ratified their first contract on January 25, 2021. Their contract, which the group negotiated over the course of five months with representatives from the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 153,...

New York Science Education Nonprofit BioBus Unionizes with OPEIU Local 153

Employees at BioBus in New York voted unanimously to join the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 153 on Friday, January 29. The unit comprises community scientists, drivers, and workers in development, IT, and more. Employees spent...

Food Bank Employees in San Francisco, Youth Counselors in Seattle and International Development Professionals in D.C. Unionize with OPEIU/NEU

National Endowment for Democracy employees celebrating their union This week, 430 nonprofit employees from across the country joined together to become members of Nonprofit Employees United (NEU), an initiative of OPEIU. These nonprofit professionals include employees...

Our Union Effectively Strengthened Our Nonprofit Organizations

Pictured NEU members employed at Plymouth Housing, Phoebe Feldsher, Sakai Kearse, and John Meadows By Roberta Petersen and David Olivera, Solid Ground employees and NEU members, and Phoebe Feldsher, Plymouth Housing employee and NEU member We are a united group of...

My Union Experience at a Housing Nonprofit

By a recent Nonprofit Employees United member I worked at a non-profit agency that offers permanent supportive housing for people that are homeless. When I began, this agency was not unionized. I loved this job, supporting folks as they begin to get back on their feet...

ACLU Maryland Unionizes with OPEIU, Joins Nonprofit Employees United

Employees at the ACLU of Maryland won their union election and joined the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 2 on July 31, 2019. The staff includes organizers, attorneys, legal fellows and assistants, and policy specialists. By forming...

PartnersGlobal’s Jeffrey Zimmer on the Meaning of a Union

Jeffrey Zimmer, PartnersGlobal employee and a Nonprofit Employees United (NEU) member describes what a union means to him.