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Key Issues - JPMC Workers Alliance

Key Issues

The RTO mandate of early 2025 brought us together, but here's what our members have identified as critical concerns.

Top Issues — Per Survey Metric

RTO is Bad for Workers

Commute, noise, expense, caregiver needs, disability, neurodivergence, and more make RTO harmful to employee well-being.

Pay is Not Keeping Up

Wages barely keep up with cost of living, despite record profits. The math isn't mathing.

ADA Accommodation Process

The bank seems to be ignoring its legal obligation to provide medically-indicated accommodations until someone hires a labor lawyer.

Note: It's not our job to make a business case for our demands: Of course they'd cost money. That's why the company tries to fight them. But without workers, there is no business. We deserve a fair say in these matters.

Universal Issues

Working Conditions

  • Clean, Safe, Healthy Working Environment
  • Well-defined procedures that actually work
  • Regular, relevant, and effective training
  • Fair treatment from management
  • Reasonable accommodations for employees under the ADA
  • Shuttles available throughout the day for late arrivals/emergency departures
  • Access to adequate lunch facilities

Pay / Compensation and Advancement

Fairness & Transparency:

  • Are fresh graduates making more than old hands?
  • Are men making more than women for the same work?
  • Am I paid much less than my peers?
  • How can we tell the answers to these questions?

Participation & Advancement:

  • Record profits demand record pay!
  • Get rid of that filthy arbitration clause
  • Advancement should follow skills and experience
  • Skills-training as regular part of job, not optional extra

Benefits

Parking

Downtown parking is expensive. At campuses, parking is not secure and often remote.

Child Care

Your kid grows old on the Bright Horizons wait-list. Also, it's comparatively expensive.

Meals

Whether downtown or in campuses, meals are unreasonably expensive or time-consuming if prepared at home.

Hours / Schedule

4-Day Work Week: Some companies have had success with a 4-day work-week. Why not us? (Meetings expand to fill time?)

Hybrid/Remote: We've proven that hybrid/remote works great, regardless of what noise comes out of the CEO's mouth. Bring it back!

Efficiency: The company wants to increase efficiency via modern technology. That should translate into fewer hours worked, not mere job losses.

Job Security

  • People should not be fired or disciplined for arbitrary or capricious reasons
  • Performance Reviews need to be accurate and unbiased
  • Stop offshoring our positions -- or threatening to do it

Position Changes: People get moved into new positions they didn't sign up for. What recourse do we have?

Environmental Stewardship

  • We talk a good game about the environment, so shouldn't we get out of the fossil-fuels business?
  • Public Transit Benefit would get cars off the road -- and help with parking
  • EV chargers in corporate parking lots would encourage EV adoption

Sustainability is Work-from-Home. (Hybrid model seems to be the sweet-spot for most.)

Corporate Governance

Transparency

Lay bare the real reasons management chooses to do things.

Worker Representation

Worker representation on the board.

Focus by Job Category

Different job categories will have different motivations to join together and militate for change.

Software Developers

Might be paid well compared to other professions, but face long hours, high stress, unrealistic deadlines, and poor guidance.

Lock-box Employees

Might have consistent hours but low pay and a dirty environment.

Note: Differences here may ultimately delineate bargaining units -- but that's a future problem. Right now we're looking to build community around commonality.

Ready to Address These Issues?

These issues affect all of us. Together, we can work to address them and create a better workplace for everyone.