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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...ge%2Fstory-ans


    Employees at an Austin-based think tank, the Center for Public Policy Priorities, started meeting after work to figure out how they could improve their workplace. Some workers felt there was an incongruity between the think tank’s advocacy on issues such as health care, living wages and public benefits, and the way it treated its employees, according to Amanda Posson, one of the union organizers.

    On Tuesday, workers at the Center for Public Policy Priorities formally opted to join a union, voting unanimously to be represented by the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union.

    “People think that nonprofit workers don’t need unions — that we don’t fit into the mold,” said Kayla Blado, the president of the all-volunteer NPEU and a staffer at the Economic Policy Institute. “But millennials graduated with high levels of student debt and medical bills, which has helped open people’s eyes that we’re not going to get a ‘middle-class’ lifestyle unless we work for it.”

    Nonprofit organizations would seem like fertile ground for workers hoping to organize. Magnets for younger, highly educated and idealistic workers, nonprofit groups have long been known for a culture of unpaid hours, low salaries and thin budgets. And many of these think tank workplaces embrace economic policies at the heart of their public missions. Yet these practices haven’t always been applied internally.
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