Washington Members Support Evan

IAPE Week in Review

On Wednesday, IAPE representatives in Washington organized a demonstration to support jailed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich outside the World Bank building where International Monetary Fund meetings were taking place.

WSJ staffers were joined by journalists and NewsGuild members from the Forward, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Reuters to send a message to delegates and make their case to reporters and photographers covering the global financial meeting.

In an interview with AFP, IAPE Treasurer Austen Hufford said, “we just want the world to know that we’re thinking about Evan, that we want him to be released, that journalism is not a crime and that he was doing nothing wrong.”

IAPE’s DC team has kindly shared these photos from Wednesday’s protest:

Show us Your Buttons!
On Tuesday, IAPE President Jodi Green and Administrative Officer Kaitlyn Frarey met with members in New York and handed out “Free Evan Now” buttons, as well as IAPE coffee mugs and notebooks. Buttons from IAPE have now been distributed in New York, Washington and San Francisco, and are being delivered to other bureaus.

To continue displaying support for Evan Gershkovich, IAPE encourages all members to share images widely on their preferred social media platforms.

Join the Pride Caucus at CWA!
The Pride Caucus at IAPE’s parent union, the Communications Workers of America, recently relaunched and is inviting queer and allied members of the CWA family to join. Interested IAPE members can register here.

As its first item of new business, the Caucus has drafted a petition calling on allied legislators in the House and Senate to join CWA in the fight to end trans genocide. Please sign and share!

How do you Identify?
Since we’re on the subject, if you haven’t submitted a response to IAPE’s short survey on how you identify, we invite you to participate. As of now, we’ve received a relatively low response rate of a little less than 160 out of 1,400+ union-represented employees.

Staff received inquiries from IAPE-represented employees with interest in finding out how their gender expression and/or gender identity may impact areas such as performance reviews, pay increases, and other workplace concerns. With the limited responses thus far, it would be difficult to extrapolate any possible connections between this self-reported data and the areas of interest, but we hope with your help we can continue to compile aggregate data to improve what information we can provide.

As always, if you have workplace questions or suggestions for how the union can better support you, feel free to send us an email at union@iape1096.org.

IAPE Trivia - Postponed
The weekly IAPE Contract Trivia Contest has been postponed for today and will return on Monday morning.