Goodbye!
Dear ReproJobs Community,
It is the end of an era. Today, we say goodbye. After ten years of organizing the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements to become a more equitable space for workers, we are sunsetting ReproJobs and leaving the work moving forward in your capable hands. Building this community has been one of the biggest honors of our working lives, and we are so proud of all we have accomplished together. You were always the backbone of ReproJobs. You made the community what it is. We are eternally grateful for all we’ve achieved together.
Looking back at all we’ve achieved together, we beam with pride. We’ve increased transparency, requiring salary ranges in job postings, publishing salary analysis and data, and revealing deficits in movement benefits and policies on paid leave–empowering workers with information to back up their organizing and demands. We created a forum on our blog to discuss some of the most complex issues facing our repro workplaces today. We held free management trainings for hundreds of repro workers looking to be better leaders. We’ve distributed nearly $350,000 in direct aid to repro workers impacted by the fall of Roe and supported hundreds of workers through training, workshops, webinars, career counseling, and résumé services. We’ve sponsored over $150,000 in training, career counseling, and development funds to movement workers.
Together, we’ve supported and trained hundreds of workers to establish unions in their workplaces, growing the union presence in this movement from three when we started in 2014 to over fifty-five now–and growing still! We’ve held this movement accountable to the values they espouse on paper and forced the movement to reckon with anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and exploitation. When movement leadership needed to be held accountable for its complacency in genocide, we organized nearly 800 repro workers to sign our letter calling for a ceasefire and an end to the genocide in Palestine.
While we have accomplished so much, there is still more work left to do. But knowing when it's time to step back and create space for others to step forward is a critical skill. Frankly, it is one that more leaders in our movement should try. So, with this humble heart, we model what we preach and sunset our work. We know the need for organizing and good trouble is still strong in this movement, but many will take up that mantle with joy, fresh ideas, and abundant energy, even in these fraught times. Listen to and organize with your co-workers. Meet with labor organizers. Show up in solidarity with workers at all levels. Bring labor conversations to your workplaces. Dream about labor justices as essential to repro liberation.
We are proud of the space we crafted to nurture the leaders in the worker movement we have today; we will continue our work to support that in different ways now. Speaking personally, this work made us better leaders, people, and organizers because we learned directly from you, were challenged by you, and fought back with you. We are all working hard to form the beloved community, and that mission is enduring.
The future is uncertain. You all courageously work to provide people with abortion and reproductive health care despite continual threats. We know many feel the weight of doing this work while our movement is in a profoundly turbulent time as clinics continue to close and organizations continue to lay off staff. Every day is a political fight for our lives. The road to fascism is running directly over our bodies. As Black, brown, Indigenous, young, rural, and working people, we know the consequences of policies, politics, and priorities that do not center us and actively villainize us. And yet, we remain rooted in a future of joy, justice, and jubilation. We see signs of workers planning, of a general strike looming, of workers empowered, not just in our movement but around the country and across industries. We are not going back, but together, fighting for the future we deserve.
While we are sunsetting our public-facing work tomorrow, some of our work will continue through the end of the year.
Our career counselor sessions with Kio will remain free of charge until the end of 2024.
Our website will live on for as many years as possible. However, it will not be updated after tomorrow. The blog, recordings of webinars, and archives will be available to the workers and allied leadership alike.
The job board will stay up but will no longer be updated. We are currently in discussions with another individual who may take it over and manage it. If we can finalize that, we will share more information on it with our list. You can also sign up to learn more about this potential project below!
We know this moment is bittersweet. ReproJobs has been an integral part of our lives just as much as it has been in yours. We are so proud of the change we’ve created in this movement and look to you to carry the torch for the next decade.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We could not have done this work without your courage, curiosity, critique, celebration, and commitment. We’ll see you in the streets!
In gratitude and justice,
ReproJobs