In the spring, Starbucks brought in new CEO Brian Niccol with promises of brewing something new and bringing customers back to the coffee giant. Has it worked? According to customers: Long waits persist, service is sluggish, and drinks aren’t ready on time. #Starbucks

Solidarity with Starbucks Workers!

Starbucks knows where workers stand, they know the demands. And 92% of baristas just said: we’re ready to strike. If Starbucks keeps ignoring them, Red Cup Day won’t be business as usual— it’ll be Red Cup Rebellion. ☕ Stand with baristas. Don’t shop at Starbucks if they strike. seiu.co/NoContract

NEWS FLASH

Let me tell you something — if Starbucks keeps union busting, Red Cup Day = Red Cup Rebellion. Stand in solidarity: don't buy Starbucks if baristas go on strike. #NoContractNoCoffee

BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.

If Starbucks baristas have to strike, we need to do the same — by not shopping at Starbucks. When workers take action together with the support and solidarity of their community, we can take back power from the billionaires and CEOs. It’s time to stand with workers, not billionaires. ✊🏽

Let’s be real — no one needs a trillion dollars. But every worker needs a union. We refuse to live in a world where billionaires become trillionaires while working people struggle to pay rent. Through Unions For All, we’re reclaiming our power and using it to uplift all working people.

The goal of being a third place is making it hard for people who have it as their second place (work) to make ends meet at their first place: home.

Administration weaponizes policy meant to ensure retailers don't gouge the public & vulnerable consumers in order to ensure retailers don't mitigate administration's new policy to hurt vulnerable consumers.

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

Trump still has not followed a court order to release SNAP funds for millions of people. Meanwhile, he hosted a "Great Gatsby" themed party at Mar-a-Lago this weekend. And he posted seven times about renovating a White House bathroom with marble and gold. Priorities.

“70% of wage-earning adults who rely on government programs like SNAP and Medicaid work full-time, many at hugely profitable companies like Walmart and McDonald’s whose low wages are effectively subsidized by tax dollars without any of the blame or paternalistic lectures.”

When executives and shareholders are measuring success in profit margins while workers are measuring success by being able to put food on the table and pay the bills, something is obscenely wrong.

For the nearly 1 in 10 members of the US workforce who rely on these benefits, this isn't enough.

What's REALLY scary? Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol has the highest CEO-to-worker pay gap in all of the S&P 500... meanwhile, stores are understaffed and the company won't finalize union contracts. Burbank, CA is rallying out here to say BOO to that! They're ready to strike if necessary!

A haunted house, but you’re a greedy CEO and your employees are joining together to form a union.

"No one working full time in the richest country on Earth should have to choose between a doctor’s visit and dinner on the table. But that’s exactly what happens when we treat health care like a luxury instead of a right.”

Just in case anyone out there needs a reminder.

Wow, they paid for a meal! How many employees have they laid off this year? How many employees aren’t receiving a fair wage or benefits?

🧟‍♂️🪦🩹 “I told Amazon about my preexisting foot injury, but they gave me their more difficult routes anyways just because I’m efficient. Amazon is trying to work us to the GRAVE! I'm in this fight to make it stop."

TLDR: tech workers, get organized! The Alphabet Workers Union has issued a statement in response to Amazon’s announcement that it will lay off 14,000 corporate workers: “Now is the time for us to stand together collectively, so we have power and a real voice in our industry.”

‘Able-bodied’ American corporations have taken advantage of Medicaid, food stamps and other safety net programs for years to get out of paying their workers a living wage by sticking the taxpayers with the expense. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Workers at Sundance Institute have formed a union with CWA Local 9003! Workers delivered a petition to Sundance leadership today demanding union recognition. cwa-union.org/news/release...

The real question isn’t why over 40 million people need SNAP. It’s why corporations get away with paying so damn little that full-time workers qualify for it.

Job creators stop creating jobs and shareholders applaud while spamming refresh on their portfolios.

There’s a solution for bettering the lives of the many that can be updated but it is being dismantled daily by those who profit off of hardship. Organize.

Trump’s billionaire buddies will spend hundreds of millions on a ballroom, but won’t pay people a living wage. It’s never been about the money — it’s always been about the power.

Documents show that Amazon is working towards automating 75% of the company’s entire operations.

"One Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s knee was on his neck, another’s was grinding his back. Drenched with tear gas and pepper spray, George Retes might have wished that his 137 pounds were back in Kirkuk, Iraq, one of his Army deployments. Here's a glimpse of your tax dollars at work."

Organize: because they want YOU to be satisfied with less while they take more and more.

🚨THREAD (1/4): I was born on the South Side of Chicago and let me tell you, what’s happening at O’Hare hits close to home.

“You look whack.” We look like democracy. We look like unity. We look like workers saying NO to racism, NO to authoritarianism, and NO to billionaire control of our government. #NoKings

Prop 50 isn’t just about maps! It’s about making sure workers and communities keep their voices in Congress. #YesOnProp50

"Difficult as it may be, unions must organize workers in the nation’s largest and most powerful corporations, and they cannot afford to wait for labor law reform or a more favorable administration to do so," writes @klbrenner.bsky.social labornotes.org/2025/10/we-c... 1/2

NEW: This Friday, our union is launching a strike authorization vote. Thousands of workers across the country are ready to finish our contracts. It's time for Starbucks to get serious and return to the bargaining table!

Unionizing your workplace is the ultimate "voluntary career transition program, giving eligible team members the opportunity to take their next career step on their own terms"

Not the millions about to see their health insurance costs double. Not the 42 million who are about to lose food assistance. Not the federal workers who are working without pay. His top priority is his $300 million vanity golden ballroom.

Retired public service worker Jeanne Weaver has spent a lifetime taking care of individuals with disabilities. "Medical care is not a partisan issue. It’s nonpartisan; it’s a life-or-death issue.”

“Our movement has outlived the past four CEOs,” said Diego Franco, a Starbucks barista, who has been elected strike captain for his store. “We’ve out-organized, we’ve out-fought. You can throw another four CEOs our way. We’re still going to be here.” labornotes.org/2025/10/stri...

I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:

Coming together in unions is how workers fight back against corporate greed. They make sure record profits mean record pay—not record CEO bonuses.

When even the investors believe the company ought to finalize a contract:

Thank you for telling the truth: we're turned against our neighbors and missing that it’s about the money at the top! And that means we need to organize!

Amazon cut Genesis’s hours and made her choose between risking her pregnancy and going on unpaid leave! Then they fired her. She became homeless right as she welcomed her first baby. 😱 Demand Mount Sinai to remove Edith Cooper from their board! loom.ly/7XBX-w0

The Trump administration has fired over 4,000 federal workers since the government shutdown began — firings that are likely illegal. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

We look forward to the mediation process, and signing the first ever UFW union contract within New York City limits. Workers at Brooklyn Grange deserve to be able to afford life in the city they help feed. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

🤰🏾 Over 400 pregnant Amazon workers have shared the abuse they’ve had to endure while working at their warehouses. They're taking action today in NYC to #ExposeAmazon and demand Amazon to change the company’s pregnancy policy. 🗣️ Take action: https://loom.ly/7v3wiWA

Join us today! Slide through 5th avenue and 97th street NY!