“Authoritarianism is happening right in our backyard, y’all. We can’t wait for these things to just magically change. We need to tax the rich and win an economy that puts workers over billionaires!”

🗞MWC leader and Kalid's Coffee worker Shayne Clegg in @npr.org: “Workers in this country are fed up. We're tired. We're facing a lot of issues from this current authoritarian regime that we are under. Billionaires are getting all of the control. Workers are suffering.”

“We are NOT the enemy! A fascist regime is. The corporations squeezing us are. The racist state lawmakers stealing our freedoms are.” 📣 Kaldi’s Coffee worker Iana McAllister joined the nationwide day of disruption on May Day because she knows the power of collective action.

“[May Day] is an important day to show our power as workers. We make up the majority of the country, the working class, and we're not being treated well. So we want to see some changes.” MWC leader and Kaldi's Coffee worker Shayne Clegg spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/...

Kansas City: sign up now to join tonight’s community forum on developer giveaways and the attacks on our schools! tinyurl.com/4hr8y3rp

While Jeff Bezos co-hosted the Met Gala, workers held their own red carpet to keep the focus on what really matters. A round of applause for Ash Judd, Amazon STL8 warehouse worker in St. Louis and leader with @moworkers.org!

🗣️No billionaires in our backyards! 🗣️ On May Day, suburban, urban, and rural Missourians said loud and proud: we don’t want dirty data centers that threaten our jobs, our water and energy, and our way of life. #NoMODirtyDataCenters #WorkersOverBillionaires

“We CAN’T and WON’T let a fascist regime win the day!” MWC leader and City Market Coffee worker Mike Vanasse riled up the crowd at our May Day mass rally in Kansas City. As a former US army medic, Mike can tell working people are battle-ready. #MOworkers #WorkersOverBillionaires

Missouri and America belong to US, the workers who make it all run. We joined thousands of organizations nationwide to 🛑shut it down🛑 on May Day. And we won’t stop fighting until we finally win a country that puts workers over billionaires!

💥Missourians SHUT IT DOWN on May Day yesterday!💥

🚨BREAKING🚨THOUSANDS of Missourians are marching to demand our country put workers over billionaires!

“When we don’t work, don’t go to school, and don’t spend our money — we remind the billionaires that it’s OUR labor and OUR dollars that keep this city on its feet. WE are the economy!” LaTonya Sullivan, @seiuhcii.bsky.social leader and Certified Nursing Assistant

“There’s no Amazon without workers. There’s no Tesla without workers. They NEED workers. Which also means workers need to have their rights heard and be able to benefit from their labor.” Rev. Kevin Anthony from Pilgrim Congregational Church

"Authoritarianism is happening right in our backyard, y’all. We can’t wait for these things to just magically change. No one is going to do it for us. This country belongs to We the People, not a fascist regime!" Terrence Wise, low-wage worker and MWC / Stand Up KC leader

❗BREAKING❗ THOUSANDS of working people in Kansas City and St. Louis are rallying for May Day to demand a city, state, and country that puts workers over billionaires!

Service workers with MWC are teaming up with WUGWU workers for a May Day rally demanding WashU puts students and workers ✊🏽over billionaires 👎

🎬 What better way to spend time on May Day? KC is watching Norma Rae, a story of workers fighting for higher pay, safer work, and a union!

🏆 KC WORKERS MARCH ON THE BOSS AND WIN 🏆

📢🚶‍♂️Students at The Plaza Academy in Kansas City are WALKING OUT in solidarity with the young people and working people taking action all over America for May Day today!

🗞 NEW from @usatoday.com: “Wise, 46, of Kansas City, a leader with the Missouri Workers Center, and his family are among hundreds of thousands of Americans expected to walk out of work or school on May 1."

Our democracy CAN’T work for the working majority until we put an end to masked armed ICE agents threatening our communities and raiding our workplaces ❌🧊

🗣️COME ON OUT, WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK!

St. Louis, we’re shutting it down on May Day! Tech billionaires are ramming dirty data centers through our communities. They want to hike our utility bills during a cost-of-living crisis. They want to automate away our jobs and jeopardize our ability to provide for our families.

When we FIGHT, we WIN! That’s why #MOworkers are rising up with working people across the country to shut it down on May Day — No Work, No School, No Shopping.

Working people deserve a democracy where WE call the shots! Not our bosses. Not the billionaires. Not bigoted politicians. #MOworkers #WorkersOverBillionaires #noMOwork

MWC leader and Kaldi's Coffee worker Iana McAllister in @stlpublicradio.bsky.social: “We’re seeing authoritarianism in our own backyard. We have to put our power together in order to FIGHT against the billionaires and to FIGHT for the democracy that we deserve.”

THIS FRIDAY 5/1: Working Missourians — Black, white, and Brown — are rising up to join the nationwide day of disruption! No Work. No School. No Shopping. Join us, and wear RED: bit.ly/MOmayday26

🎥 KANSAS CITY! This May Day, we’re hosting a citywide screening of Norma Rae — an inspirational story of one woman and her coworkers’ struggle to win a union at the town textile mill.

Working people all over Missouri are rising up on May Day to BUST the data center boom! 💥 Join us and take action this Friday, May 1, to protect your community: 📍Ozarks | 10am | Text 417-696-6828 📍Warrenton | 12pm | bit.ly/maydaywarrenton

⏰ Our No School virtual training call is happening in just THREE days! Register now to join us over Zoom on Monday, April 27, at 7pm: bit.ly/noMOschool

Notice the new logos? Our movement of working people, young people, and community members taking action on May Day is growing! Sign up now to SHUT IT DOWN — No Work, No School, No Shopping — with millions across the country on Friday, May 1:

Got May Day plans? bit.ly/MOmayday26 #MOworkers #WorkersOverBillionaires

MWC and #StandUpKC leader Bill Thompson on Speaker Patterson’s Everything Tax Scam in KC Business Journal: “The vast majority of Missourians are ALREADY seeing prices go through the roof and putting higher sales taxes on EVERYTHING will just add insult to injury!”

Our statement on the Royals stadium announcement. #MOworkers

🎤 “The Mayor, the Governor, [billionaire Royals owner] John Sherman — those are folks who’ve shown us who they care about. And it’s not taxpayers and Kansas Citians!” – #StandUpKC and MWC leader Terrence Wise with FOX4 KC #MOworkers #RoyalTaxScam

Kansas Citians are demanding a city, state, and country that puts WORKERS like us over BILLIONAIRES like Royals owner John Sherman. Rally with us and millions of Americans on the upcoming nationwide day of disruption: bit.ly/kcmayday2026

Do you or someone you know have a passion for storytelling that shows what’s possible when working people come together — Black, Brown, and white — to get done together what we can’t do alone?

This country belongs to us, not a fascist regime. It’s time to come together and use our strength in numbers to take America BACK! Register now for Monday’s No Shopping training call at 7pm: bit.ly/noMOshopping

While most of us were asleep, MO senators voted late last night to hike our sales taxes by 400% at the checkout line! But there’s still time to block Speaker Patterson’s Everything Tax Scam. Email your House rep NOW to demand they vote no: bit.ly/NoEverythingTax

Thought Tax Day couldn’t get worse? KCMO City Council is voting TOMORROW on the Royal Tax Scam 🙄 Come pack their meeting and demand they vote NO! Wear red, and meet us on the 26th floor at 414 E 12th St: bit.ly/blockroyaltaxscam

📢 NOTHING ABOUT US, WITHOUT US. 📢 KC workers and residents are flooding City Council’s first Finance Committee hearing on the Royal Tax Scam! We voted down the KC Royals stadium sales tax in 2024. Now we’re going to finish the job once and for all!

🚨TOMORROW AT 10AM: We’re PACKING City Hall! Come give public comment at KCMO City Council’s first Finance Committee hearing on the Royal Tax Scam! Wear red, and meet us on the 26th floor at 414 E 12th St.

⏰ Time’s running out — register now for Monday’s No Work training call at 5:30pm: bit.ly/noMOwork #MOworkers #WorkersOverBillionaires #MayDay2026 #MayDayStrong

🗞️ NEW in @kcur.org: KCMO city officials are trying to rush a $600 million giveaway for a new Royals stadium.

There’s just THREE DAYS left to register for our No Work training call this Monday, April 13, at 5:30pm! Sign up now to learn how you can join the nationwide day of action on May Day: bit.ly/noMOwork

Our statement on the Royal Tax Scam. #MOworkers

“They like to make us feel like nothing we do matters. But you guys, they’re WRONG!” 📣🔥

We’re shutting it down on May Day! Are you ready to join the nationwide day of disruption? Rally with us on Friday, May 1, at 5:30pm: 🔴 Kansas City: Washington Square Park (100 E Pershing Rd) — bit.ly/kcmayday2026 🔵 St. Louis: Aloe Plaza (Market St & N 18th St) — bit.ly/stlmayday2026

Students have a LONG history of taking bold action to demand the freedom and power we all deserve — so we’re coming together for the nationwide day of disruption on May Day! Register now for our No School training call on Monday, April 27, at 7pm: bit.ly/noMOschool

Join us at tomorrow’s Hillsdale Board of Trustees meeting to demand they end their 287(g), protect our neighbors, and stop working with ICE!