I am grateful for these organizations and their public support

Been kind of a rough week for a lot of my colleagues.  I’m going to take time to practice gratitude.

Yesterday, I mentioned how much we appreciate our Students @SupportingUMFA group. Today I want to shout out the many organizations that have sent messages of support. In some cases, they’ve sent actual people to walk the lines with us.

Method:

I did several advanced searches on twitter, looking for tweets that mentioned the UMFA twitter handle (@UMFA_FAUM) and one or more of the words "support" "supporting" and "solidarity" over date ranges starting Nov 1 (the day before the strike began) to about 10am this morning (19 Nov). From the tweets returned, I tried to make a note of all the organizations that offered their support.

Shortcomings:

This is only things that got tweeted; if something got sent to IG or Facebook or Tiktok or anywhere, but didn’t get retweeted in Twitter, I didn’t find it.  If any tweets did not include the UMFA twitter handle and one or more of the keywords, I didn't find it. Also, there were a few cases where I wasn’t sure if it was the organization, officially supporting ours, or individuals from an organization doing so. Apologies all around to anyone I’ve missed or misidentified. Please let me know and I’ll try to do something about it. 

Results:

There are of course many, many individuals we are grateful to for their support, but I don't have it in me to identify all of them right now and figure out if they’re UMFA members or supporters from Outside in the World somewhere.  So as far as I can tell, the list below names in alphabetical order each organization that (I believe) has offered their support to us (along with their Twitter handles): 

• Academic Teaching Staff, University of Alberta (@ATS_UofA)
• Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1505 (@ATU1505)
• Association of Academic Staff of the University of Alberta (@TheAASUA)
• Association of Employees Supporting Education Services (@AESES_AESSE)
• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba Office (@CCPA-MB)
• Canadian Federation of Students – Manitoba (@CFSMB)
• Canadian Federation of Students - Ontario (@CFSON)
• Canadian Federation of Students / Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants (@CFSFCEE)
• Canadian Union of Postal Workers (@cupw)
• Canadian Union of Public Employees - Manitoba (@CUPEMB)
• Carlton University Academic Staff Association (@cuasa)
• Community Not Cuts (@CNC_Manitoba)
• Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations (@cafaab)
• Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia (@CUFABC)
• Faculty Association at Simon Fraser University (@SFU_FA)
• Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals (@MAHCP_MB)
• Manitoba Federation of Labour (@MFLabour)
• Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union (@MGEUnion)
• Manitoba Nurses Union (@ManitobaNurses)
• Manitoba Organization of Faculty Associations (@MOFA_FAPUM)
• Manitoba Teachers' Society (@mbteachers)
• Memorial University Faculty Association (@MUNFaculty)
• Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (@OCUFA)
• Public Service Alliance of Canada - Prairie Region (@psacprairies)
• Raven Law (@RavenLawOttawa)
• Students Supporting UMFA (@supportingumfa)
• University of Lethbridge Faculty Association (@ULFAssociation)
• University of Manitoba Graduate Student Association (@UofM_GSA)
• University of Manitoba Students’ Union (@MyUMSU)
• University of Manitoba Undergraduate Microbiology Student’s Club (@UofmMicroclub)
• University of Northern British Columbia Faculty Association (@FacultyUbc)
• University of Regina Faculty Association (@UofRFA)
• University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (@UWOFA)
• University of Winnipeg Faculty Associations (@theuwfa)
• Winnipeg Teachers' Association (@WinnipegTA)