💪 Join us to show MO lawmakers what democracy looks like! bit.ly/jan21rally Low-wage workers are coming together with allies across the state for a Stand Up, Fight Back Day of Action on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at the MO State Capitol (201 W Capitol Ave, Jeff City, MO 65101).

🚨 Kansas City: Do you know how to defend your tips from wage theft? Join our FREE workshop for service industry workers to learn how to protect your pay! Sign up at bit.ly/kc-workshop

☕ SOLIDARITY SIP-IN with Kaldi's workers this Thursday! ☕ Kaldi's workers on Skinker have a union election coming up — and they need YOUR support!

This year, sitting back and pretending we’re powerless are out. And WINNING is so, so in 😉 #MOworkers

Happy New Year! #MOworkers are starting 2026 off strong with some big news: Hundreds of thousands of Missourians are getting a RAISE today after over a decade of low-wage worker organizing to win a $15 minimum wage!

Happy holidays from #MOworkers, and solidarity with all the workers who keep this country running throughout the winter ❄️ We hope everybody finds time to relax, stay warm, and spend time with your loved ones this holiday season!

🗣️ St. Louis: Is your boss *breaking* the law and *stealing* your tips? Join our FREE workshop for service industry workers to learn how to protect your pay! Sign up at bit.ly/stl-workshop

We are building a Missouri that is: 🛠️ PRO-WORKER 🪧 PRO-UNION 👪 PRO-FAMILY ✊ PRO-FREEDOM Ready to join us? Visit moworkers.org #MOworkers

"I’m uniting with my coworkers to win a union because all service industry workers deserve a living wage!” Calista Hyde, Kaldi's Coffee worker and MWC leader #StandUpKaldis #MOworkers #1u #UnionsForAll #UnionNow

🎤 “Workers aren’t begging anymore. Workers are building. Workers are rising. Stand up KC! Stand up Missouri Workers Center! Stand up @uaw.org! Because when we stand together, we are the force that moves history! And how do we accomplish this? Organize! Organize! Organize!”

“Once we began to organize and tell each other our stories, we realized we weren’t as divided as we thought we were.” ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽✊🏾✊🏻 #MOworkers #StandUpKC

NEW ANALYSIS: Tax abatements for developers are costing St. Louis public schools *tens of millions* of dollars every year! Black, Brown, and working class families are getting hit the hardest 😡

“Kaldi’s feels local. Kaldi’s markets themselves as community-first. But many of the people who are the community, the workers, feel unheard, undervalued, and exploited.” www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/co...

That’s a wrap! Following last week’s fundraiser in Kansas City, #MOworkers across St. Louis came together last night to celebrate our year of BIG fights and BIG wins 🎉

Amazon #STL8 worker Rebecca Snarzyk joined #MOworkers and allies across Montgomery County to PACK Monday’s town hall and say 🚫NO to Amazon’s water-guzzling, energy bill-hiking AI data center proposal!

Bakar + Darian, former drivers for the IRIS micro-transit program in KC, have partnered w @moworkers.org + our legal team to file a class-action lawsuit against zTrip. They are demanding thousands of dollars of back pay in missing overtime wages and junk fees taken out of workers' checks.

“This is not a fight to save baristas, but to save our city. This city and country belong to people like us just as much as it should belong to anyone else.”

Thanks to everyone who joined us last night in KC to celebrate our wins this year! Together we reflected on 2025, we danced, and we recommitted ourselves to growing our movement in 2026 💪

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 Amazon AI data centers got exposed for polluting Oregon’s water supply, and now they want to build another one right here in eastern Missouri. We’re not going to let tech billionaires profit off our communities while they poison our bodies!

Thank you to our Strength in Numbers and higher level fundraiser sponsors! We appreciate their support and EVERYBODY’S contributions in the fight to build a Missouri that is pro-worker, pro-union, pro-family, and pro-freedom.

“Kaldi’s workers face unfair pay and terrible scheduling hours. Things aren't getting better on their own, and they'll get worse unless we leverage our power!”

Introducing @moworkerspower.org, the sibling 501(c)(4) organization of Missouri Workers Center! Low-wage #MOworkers have spent years building a multiracial worker-led movement to advance our rights and our power on and off the job. Now we’re taking our movement to the next level!

🎟️ It’s #GivingTuesday! TODAY ONLY you have the opportunity to support low-wage worker organizing by grabbing your tickets to our annual fundraisers for *just $20.* That’s over 70% off! 🔴 KC: Friday, Dec. 5 @ 5:30 – bit.ly/mwcKC25 🔵 STL: Tuesday, Dec. 9 @ 5:30 – bit.ly/mwcSTL25

Amazon workers deserve so much MORE for the back-breaking work they do. 😤 What else would you add to the list? 👀 #MOworkers

Remember Black Friday 2022? Amazon #STL8 workers went on a historic strike to demand safer work, higher pay, and more! By coming together, workers won *five* OSHA citations and FORCED management to address their safety violations 💪 #MOworkers #AmazonHurts #MakeAmazonPay

“I’m coming together with my coworkers to win a union and make sure we have enough money to not just survive, but thrive!“

Kaldi’s coffee workers fighting for respect, dignity, and a union 🤝 @sbworkersunited.org members on strike demanding their first contract!

“It feels like we’re under a boot at work right now — like our pay and working conditions are up to someone else. We’re fighting to have it in our hands instead!”

Just two weeks left until our 2025 fundraisers in Kansas City and St. Louis! Get your tickets now and come celebrate with us 🎉

🦃🥧🍂 Yesterday, members of our Fuerza organizing committee came together with allies from across St. Louis to break bread and share the stories and hopes that unite our communities across races, places, and genders.

“I have hope in this moment we will accomplish the dreams we left our country for. UNITY brings strength, that STRENGTH gives us power, that POWER takes us where we need to go!”

“April 15, 2015 — I went and joined Stand Up KC, and the fight for $15 and a union. And to this day, I’m still fighting.” 😤

“In just a few months, we’ve already seen that ORGANIZING gets the GOODS!” 💪

We mourn and celebrate the life of Alice Kitchen, who passed away last Friday, Nov. 14, surrounded by her family. Alice was a longtime member of #StandUpKC and one of the first adjunct faculty members to join the Faculty Forward organizing committee in 2015.

“The power of personal stories.” “El empoderamiento que tenemos todos los seres humanos.” “We all are going to come together and WIN!”

🪧NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE! #MOworkers stand in solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org members on STRIKE to demand Starbucks execs sit down at the bargaining table! Until this strike is over, join us in refusing to cross the picket line — that means DON’T buy Starbucks!

🚨EVICTION DEFENSE RALLY ALERT🚨 Rally with us at St. Louis City Hall on Wed., Nov. 19, at 5:15pm to demand the city immediately and FULLY fund the right to counsel program so that renters facing eviction can exercise our rights with attorneys on our side!

📈 Data centers have already caused energy bills to SKYROCKET this year across Missouri. We can’t afford *another* data center in St. Louis!

“I'm joining my coworkers to unionize because we deserve RESPECT at work and CONTROL over decisions that affect our lives!” #StandUpKaldis #MOworkers #1u #UnionsForAll #UnionNow

#ICYMI from St. Louis Business Journal: “Joining with @unitehere.org Local 74 will allow us to build upon our momentum, have a say-so in the decisions that affect our daily lives and win the lasting improvements we deserve through a strong union contract!”

#MOworkers and community members gathered in Kansas City over the weekend for a memorial and teach-in hosted by IREHR to reflect on the brilliant legacy of Leonard Zeskind. Leonard was a dear friend, ally, and mentor to MWC who passed away in April.

“Workers deserve respect NOW. That is our right. Workers deserve a living wage NOW. That is our right. We're not asking for permission anymore... Kaldi’s needs to voluntarily recognize us and meet us at the bargaining table NOW!” #StandUpKaldis #MOworkers #1u #UnionsForAll #UnionNow

🎟️Only one month left to grab your tickets to our fundraisers in Kansas City and St. Louis! Even if you can’t make it, YOU can become one of this year’s sponsors at bit.ly/mwcfund

📹NEW from @fox2now.bsky.social: Kaldi’s workers across eight St. Louis stores just launched their campaign to form a union — with a *supermajority* of workers at the Skinker location already demanding union recognition!

💥Solidarity from the St. Louis Board of Aldermen! Today the Board *unanimously* cosponsored AND passed the resolution from @lishaliberty.bsky.social in support of Kaldi’s workers organizing to form a union — just two days after workers took their campaign public!

🗣️Kaldi’s union NOW! Baristas, bakers, and kitchen staff across eight Kaldi’s stores just launched their union campaign at a rally with HUNDREDS of St. Louis community members — and with a *supermajority* of support at the Skinker store already!

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🪧 At today’s campaign launch, Kaldi’s workers across eight stores announced they’re *already* filing for union recognition at the Skinker location — with more stores to follow suit!

"This Friday, I will introduce Resolution 147 in support of the unionization efforts of Kaldi’s employees. When we go to work, we expect three simple things: dignity, respect, and fairness. That is what this resolution stands for." STL Alder @lishaliberty.bsky.social

“For months, I tried to become a kitchen lead. Management instead offered the job to a white coworker, who I had trained. That person quit so I went after the position again. They’ve kicked the can down the road since.” Iana McAllister, Kaldi’s worker and MWC leader