Looks like the National Labor Relations Board or the NLRB came to a decision on former PUSH employees Aminah Johnson and Kat Cejka’s case before them. They found as we’ve been saying that PUSH violated their rights to protected concerted activity on the job by firing them. In response Buffalo News’ ‘reporter’ Jonathan Epstein put together an awkward piece that only gets direct quotes from people from PUSH Buffalo about the matter. They didn’t bother to reach out to Johnson, Cejka, or anyone from the NLRB for that matter.

Nicolita Rodriguez the Chairwoman of PUSH’s Board of Directors (pictured to your right in the meme) seemed confused or alarmed by the NLRB’s decision. “This finding is difficult because PUSH is well known as a pro-labor, worker’s rights organization” she said according to this piece. Well now Miss Rodriguez PUSH will also be known as a hypocrite, a practitioner of unfair labor practices against its own employees. Ironically Miss Rodriguez is often on the Zoom call as in the case of Aminah Johnson when an employee has been wrongfully terminated. We told you that PUSH was frontin for social justice and here is yet more proof. This might be news to PUSH’s Board of Directors because in our opinion many of them have no idea of what’s going on (they don’t know where the money is coming from or where it is going) or have possibly been shielded by PUSH staff from the many day to day oppressions going on in the organization. We’re not exactly sure.

Also pictured in this meme to the left is Emily Terrana. Terrana we told you was the former PUSH Organizing Director who left after she found out she couldn’t oppress and creatively extract anymore from black and brown subordinates who actually did the work she took credit for. Amazingly, with zero experience of organizing low-income black and brown people, and with the blessing of Harper Bishop PUSH’s Director of Movement Building or Movement Destroying and Rahwa Ghirmatzion PUSH’s Executive Director she used her white super powers to climb onto the backs of black and brown men at PUSH defaming one in the process, coming out on top as a new age slave master or slave mistress and was promoted to the Organizing Director position. See previous post for the back story.

Also in this piece Miss Ghirmatzion doubled down that she believes that the NLRB finding is incorrect. Hopefully PUSH settles financially with Johnson and Cejka, and doesn’t needlessly spend more money on more high paid high powered attorneys. Hopefully PUSH comes up with a restorative justice plan that includes monetarily making the upwards of 90 former employees many of whom they wrongfully terminated over the years whole again. We’ll give a detailed response to the court’s ruling in Part III of our “Examined in Court Series” and in other posts.