Dana El-Kurd

I grabbed my other roommate.

who is, at the time, wasn't a part of the union because wasn't an employee of Real You Electrolysis, but is on the Real You Electrolysis hiring list.

Oh, so it's like a contractor situation?

Not quite.

they will work with us in the future.

Oh, it just like hasn't been fully hired.

Yeah, that's kind of the way they do things.

Like they hire people well in advance of having them actually start work.

Like most of us were hired like months and months and months before we started actually taking shifts.

So Monday, I go home.

I pick up my housemate, who is incredible and has a special interest in documentation and bureaucracy.

She and Deja are my two documenters.

And shout out to Vae, because we wouldn't have been able to get here without you.

And we went to the IWW over in Portland, and we had a meeting with them, and we just walked in there with the intention of asking for help from their solidarity network of like, hey, we have just been put into a hardship status at this point because of what has happened.

Can you help us with rent?

Yeah.

And I want to say that meeting was like two or three hours long.

We talked about a lot of plans moving forward.

And instead of just having support with rent, we came away with a plan of what we would be doing next.

and tuesday came we had all 11 people of this union meet in the parking lot and sign our petition together we got it photocopied we made digital copies we made sure it was all safe