💥BREAKING💥 Hundreds of #MOworkers and allies from across St. Louis marched to Enterprise Center and dropped a banner just now to demand Enterprise cut ALL ties with ICE!

Over the past two weeks, service industry workers in St. Louis and Kansas City have come together for our Wages & Tipping Workshops, co-hosted with attorneys from @jobsandfreedom.bsky.social!

Seems like a good time for a three day weekend. 🤔 NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN FRIDAY ❌ No work. No school. No shopping. ✅ Protest. Contact/visit elected officials. Volunteer. Resist. nationalshutdown.org

Our Statement in the wake of ICE agents’ murder of Alex Pretti. #MOworkers

The many can defeat the money.

For too long, bosses have dictated the terms of food service workers’ lives with no pushback. In 2025, we started changing that. #MOworkers across the state are demanding fair pay, paid health care, union rights, and workplaces built on dignity and respect. And we’re winning 🪧

“Previously, I’d go to my boss and say ‘Hey, I need a raise,’ and he’d laugh in my face,” Thompson said. “But if I see all my brothers and sisters with Stand Up KC behind me, standing with me in solidarity asking for that raise, it’s no longer an ask — it’s a demand.”

Kansas City, our FREE Wages & Tipping workshop with @moworkers.org is TONIGHT (Mon, Jan 26) from 6:30-8pm at Westport Presbyterian! Learn about fair wages, tipping, and your rights! Sign up for our free workshop: bit.ly/kc-workshop #knowyourrights

Join us and @jobsandfreedom.bsky.social tomorrow in Kansas City for a FREE workshop covering topics like tipping, wage theft, and worker rights and power! Sign up now at bit.ly/kc-workshop If you’re a service worker in KC, come learn how to protect your pay!

At the start of the new legislative session, thousands #MOworkers and community allies flooded the State Capitol to send lawmakers a message: Missourians value our freedoms, so we’ll STAND UP and FIGHT BACK to protect them 🔥

🎤 “My immigrant neighbors bring beauty and love into my community. ICE and unaccountable masked agents have NO place here. You know what should be in our communities? Good paying jobs that keep a roof over our heads, feed our families, and help us follow our dreams.”

Take action now to demand Congress block any additional funds to ICE! bit.ly/iceoutstl

🧊❌BREAKING 🧊❌ 500 #MOworkers and community allies from across St. Louis just rallied to demand ICE OUT of our city! Solidarity with our siblings in Minnesota during their bold general strike to fight back ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏽

🗣️NO ICE IN OUR STREETS! #MOworkers in Kansas City are joining the nationwide Day of Truth and Freedom, right as our siblings in Minnesota launch their historic general strike 💪

On Wednesday *thousands* of low-wage #MOworkers and community allies flooded the State Capitol to demand state lawmakers END their assault on our freedoms and RESPECT the will of the people!

Join us TODAY for a nationwide Day of Truth and Freedom in solidarity with Minnesotans as they launch a general strike! From MN to MO, working people are fighting back to demand masked ICE thugs leave our cities and businesses cut ALL ties with ICE 🧊❌!

Kansas City, did you sign up for our FREE Wages & Tipping workshop with @moworkers.org next Mon, Jan 26 from 6:30-8pm at Westport Presbyterian? Learn about fair wages, tipping, and your rights! Sign up for our free workshop: bit.ly/kc-workshop #knowyourrights

“In my line of business, every day you miss means the difference between whether you make your rent or put your food on the table." www.stlpr.org/government-p...

The people UNITED will never be DEFEATED! The Jefferson City News Tribune covered our #StandUpFightBack rally at the Capitol yesterday, where thousands of Missourians linked arms to show corrupt state politicians:

🚨THIS FRIDAY, 1/23, #MOworkers are taking action in solidarity with our siblings in Minnesota! No matter what we look like or where we live, we all deserve to feel safe from masked armed thugs terrorizing our neighborhoods. Join us in Kansas City and St. Louis as we demand:

“This fight is personal to me. Because of corporate greed, I still get brightly colored letters in the mail threatening to shut off my utilities…

📣 STAND UP, FIGHT BACK 📣 The power of HUNDREDS of Missourians’ voices is overflowing the State Capitol today. And together, we’re demanding that MO lawmakers respect the will of the people! #StandUpFightBack

Tech billionaires want to exploit our labor, raid our communities’ resources, and take over our government with their greed. But #MOworkers are fighting back!

🎥 Terrence and Stand Up KC featured on @kctv5.com

MWC and #StandUpKC leader Terrence Wise accepted the Community Service Award last night at this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Mass Celebration in Kansas City, hosted by Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City:

NO MO DIRTY DATA CENTERS! We deserve the *full* truth about every proposal in Missouri. Across the state, tech billionaires are trying to ram data centers into our communities. We demand our representatives listen to Missouri workers and vote NO on these proposals.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards JUSTICE.”

The Show Me State knows how to show up for each other. We won’t let corrupt politicians divide and distract us so they can become richer and more powerful while we suffer. Jan. 21st let's SHOW them what democracy looks like. STAND UP, FIGHT BACK in Jeff City: bit.ly/jan21rally. #StandUpFightBack

“Through this movement, we’ve created these great friendships. These great bonds. We are a family — workers, allies, everybody in this community. And we’re going to carry those bonds on as we continue this fight.” – #StandUpKC leader Bridget Hughes

Come fight back against developers’ new AI data center proposal in Union!

TOMORROW: Join the opening reception of the new Charlotte Street Foundation exhibition documenting 15 years of Stand Up KC design! Come see how our bold visuals have shaped the multiracial worker-led fight for higher pay and unions across Kansas City for over a decade:

It’s time to stand together and KEEP ABORTION LEGAL. Join us and our partners at our Stand Up, Fight Back Day of Action on Wed. January 21 to demand that our elected officials do their job and protect our freedoms. Join us: bit.ly/SUFB121

🗣️ When workers’ rights are under attack, what do we do? STAND UP, FIGHT BACK! This Wednesday 1/21 at 11am, #MOworkers from across the state are rallying in Jeff City to demand our lawmakers RESPECT the will of the people and END their attacks on worker power!

Now it’s time for us to rally in Jeff City to make sure our elected officials listen to the will of the people. Will you join our Stand Up, Fight Back Day of Action on Wednesday, Jan. 21 at 11am at the State Capitol (201 W Capitol Ave, Jeff City, MO 65101)? Sign up at bit.ly/jan21rally

🏛️ Whose house? OUR HOUSE! Throughout 2025, #MOworkers used our strength in numbers to flood the streets and the statehouse to fight for a democracy that works for ALL of us!

Please join us this Sat, Jan 17th from 3-5 PM at Charlotte Street for the opening reception of "Stand Up, Fight Back: Designing an Anti-Racist Movement for Worker Power." This exhibition is an archival project documenting MO's low-wage worker movement to win living wages and good jobs for all.

The billionaires and racists try to exploit and divide us, all so they can distract us from the fact that WE make America work 💪

🗣️It’s time to STAND UP, FIGHT BACK against elected officials’ attacks on our movements! Sign up for our statewide day of action at the MO Capitol at bit.ly/jan21rally

In 2025 our @inequality.org team published commentaries by diverse workers, incl @jazbrisack.bsky.social and folks from @moworkers.org, @globallaborjustice.bsky.social, @teamsters.bsky.social & many more. Ck out the highlights here: inequality.org/article/what...

🥁 NEW: Today, we’re releasing our 2025 annual report to highlight our biggest wins and our workers’ stories! Check it out at the link in our bio, or here: bit.ly/mwc2025annualreport

It’s only been a couple days since Kaldi’s workers at Skinker had their initial vote to unionize. Now Kaldi's Coffee management is so frightened, they’re trying to flee the city! 🤣 🐐

✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿✊ United We Bargain, Divided We Beg ✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿✊ Yesterday, Kaldi’s workers at the Skinker coffee shop voted to form a union with @unitehere.org Local 74! Management had hired union busters to spread anti-union lies, but workers knew the truth: WE are the union, the mighty mighty union!

💥BREAKING💥 Kaldi’s workers at Skinker just voted 7-2 to form a union with @unitehere.org Local 74! Today’s vote is the product of *months* of Kaldi’s workers organizing across the city for higher pay, safer work, and a union. As MWC leader and Skinker Team Lead Shayne Clegg said:

Our state motto is clear: “Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.” It’s time to force our politicians to live up to it. Join us Wednesday, Jan. 21! Sign up at bit.ly/jan21rally. Make sure to mark that you’re with MWC and whether you need transportation! #MOworkers

☕SOLIDARITY FOREVER! The St. Louis community came out strong today in solidarity with Kaldi’s Coffee workers on Skinker before their union election TODAY — and we made sure to leave big tips 😉

“As a low-wage worker, I wholeheartedly reject the lie that deporting my neighbor is how I win better pay and working conditions… Unaccountable masked agents have no place in our communities!”

This Sunday, YOU are invited to our free workshop for service industry workers to learn how to protect your pay! Sign up now at bit.ly/stl-workshop

It's never been more important for the St. Louis community to stand with the workers who brew our coffee! ☕💪 TOMORROW: Join Kaldi's workers for a Solidarity Sip-In!

We are joining @moworkers.org in St. Louis this weekend with our FREE workshop for service industry workers to learn how to protect your pay! 🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/stl-workshop 🗓️ Sunday, Jan. 11 @ 6:30pm - 8pm 📍 SEIU Healthcare (5585 Pershing Ave, STL, MO 63112)

💪 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).