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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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As promised, the 2025 Autumn issue of Industrial Worker is now available to print, read, and share!
Read it now:
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#IWW #UnionStrong #union #workers #labor #laborday #mayday #organizing
Read it now:
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New Print Issue Available!
The 2025 IW Autumn issue is now available for download! Read or print it now at your leisure. 2025 IW AutumnDownload
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November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
As promised, the 2025 Autumn issue of Industrial Worker is now available to print, read, and share!
Read it now:
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#IWW #UnionStrong #union #workers #labor #laborday #mayday #organizing
Read it now:
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#IWW #UnionStrong #union #workers #labor #laborday #mayday #organizing
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Autoworkers in Chattanooga are taking a strike vote tomorrow at VW. The local labor council has launched a strike solidarity hardship fund to support the workers. Please send as much support as possible to make sure this strike is successful!
Donate to Help Chattanooga Workers Stand Strong, organized by Patrick Cate
The Chattanooga Area Labor Council is kicking off our new Solidarity Fund! The purp… Patrick Cate needs your support for Help Chattanooga Workers Stand Strong
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October 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Autoworkers in Chattanooga are taking a strike vote tomorrow at VW. The local labor council has launched a strike solidarity hardship fund to support the workers. Please send as much support as possible to make sure this strike is successful!
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When even the investors believe the company ought to finalize a contract:
NEW: In a new letter, Starbucks investors are expressing concern over the company's sustainability, "as evidenced by more than one hundred Unfair Labor Practice complaints filed this year, worker protests, and threats to strike."
Read their letter to the board:
sbworkersunited.org/starbucks-in...
Read their letter to the board:
sbworkersunited.org/starbucks-in...
Starbucks Investors Call on Company to Restart Negotiations with Union Baristas - Starbucks Workers United
“We write as long-term shareholders of Starbucks Corporation to express our concern regarding the current state of Starbucks’ labor relations and urge the company to restart negotiations and promptly ...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
When even the investors believe the company ought to finalize a contract:
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The Phellow Workers of Philadelphia bring us the latest on a new historical marker dedicated to FW Ben Fletcher!
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Philadelphia IWW Unveils Historical Marker
Philadelphia I.W.W. Unveils Historical Marker and Celebrates Local 8 and Ben Fletcher’s Legacy of Militant, Industrial Organizing On Saturday June 21, 2025 the Philadelphia Historical and Museum Co…
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October 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The Phellow Workers of Philadelphia bring us the latest on a new historical marker dedicated to FW Ben Fletcher!
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#UnionStrong #union #workers #IWW #wobblies #labor
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#UnionStrong #union #workers #IWW #wobblies #labor
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October 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Attacks on working people are growing at a dizzying pace. But we have a key point of leverage: The billionaire class depends on our labor.
@labornotes.bsky.social has just released a new resource on May Day 2028 filled with contract alignment FAQ's and resources. www.may2028.org
@labornotes.bsky.social has just released a new resource on May Day 2028 filled with contract alignment FAQ's and resources. www.may2028.org
May Day 2028 - MAY 2028
CONTACT US Resource Library Ready to take action? Working towards alignment in your local? We’ve compiled sample resolution language, organizing tips from people who have done it, and other resources....
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October 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Attacks on working people are growing at a dizzying pace. But we have a key point of leverage: The billionaire class depends on our labor.
@labornotes.bsky.social has just released a new resource on May Day 2028 filled with contract alignment FAQ's and resources. www.may2028.org
@labornotes.bsky.social has just released a new resource on May Day 2028 filled with contract alignment FAQ's and resources. www.may2028.org
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If you make $50K a year, it would take 20,000 years to hit your first billion.
Billionaires don’t exist because of “hard work.” They exist because of our work.
Billionaires don’t exist because of “hard work.” They exist because of our work.
September 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
If you make $50K a year, it would take 20,000 years to hit your first billion.
Billionaires don’t exist because of “hard work.” They exist because of our work.
Billionaires don’t exist because of “hard work.” They exist because of our work.
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#SolidaritySeason Is in full swing! Boston-area workers just won the 650th Starbucks union election! 🎉It’s time for Starbucks to respect their unified voice and settle a fair contract.
BREAKING: Workers in the Boston area just WON the 650th Starbucks union election!
Starbucks has only gotten worse under the leadership of CEO Brian Niccol. Over 12,000 union workers are using their collective voice to speak out against corporate greed and demand a fair union contract!
Starbucks has only gotten worse under the leadership of CEO Brian Niccol. Over 12,000 union workers are using their collective voice to speak out against corporate greed and demand a fair union contract!
September 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
#SolidaritySeason Is in full swing! Boston-area workers just won the 650th Starbucks union election! 🎉It’s time for Starbucks to respect their unified voice and settle a fair contract.
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What is the current legal landscape for labor? What are the threats on the horizon?
Check out the report from ION to see where we go in a post-NLRB world.
Check out the report from ION to see where we go in a post-NLRB world.
Labor organizing after the NLRB
This is an excerpt from the Independent Organizing Network's Post-NLRB research report on the current legal labor landscape and the threats on the horizon.
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September 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
What is the current legal landscape for labor? What are the threats on the horizon?
Check out the report from ION to see where we go in a post-NLRB world.
Check out the report from ION to see where we go in a post-NLRB world.
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Amazing first Labor Day parade in Boston today. At least 15k in the streets and lots of people watching the parade. The Greater Boston Labor Council really turned it out!
September 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Amazing first Labor Day parade in Boston today. At least 15k in the streets and lots of people watching the parade. The Greater Boston Labor Council really turned it out!
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‘Union:’ Don’t Hide the Mess
How candid should we be when making labor propaganda?
How candid should we be when making labor propaganda?
‘Union:’ Don’t Hide the Mess
How candid should we be when making labor propaganda?
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August 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
‘Union:’ Don’t Hide the Mess
How candid should we be when making labor propaganda?
How candid should we be when making labor propaganda?
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👇 How to Report ICE zines for multiple cities! 💗
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!
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August 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
👇 How to Report ICE zines for multiple cities! 💗
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Join GBLC unions and community partners for a Solidarity Picket with Teamsters Local 25 on strike at Republic Services this Thursday, July 24th!
What: GBLC Solidarity Picket with Teamsters striking Republic
When: Thursday, July 24, 3-4:30pm
Where: 66 Norfolk Ave, Roxbury
What: GBLC Solidarity Picket with Teamsters striking Republic
When: Thursday, July 24, 3-4:30pm
Where: 66 Norfolk Ave, Roxbury
July 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Join GBLC unions and community partners for a Solidarity Picket with Teamsters Local 25 on strike at Republic Services this Thursday, July 24th!
What: GBLC Solidarity Picket with Teamsters striking Republic
When: Thursday, July 24, 3-4:30pm
Where: 66 Norfolk Ave, Roxbury
What: GBLC Solidarity Picket with Teamsters striking Republic
When: Thursday, July 24, 3-4:30pm
Where: 66 Norfolk Ave, Roxbury
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Maybe the Democrats’ answer to Republicans stripping healthcare away from Americans and driving up everyone’s costs, should be guaranteeing everyone healthcare and driving down everyone’s costs — while cutting spending by $650B per year?
July 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Maybe the Democrats’ answer to Republicans stripping healthcare away from Americans and driving up everyone’s costs, should be guaranteeing everyone healthcare and driving down everyone’s costs — while cutting spending by $650B per year?
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How can you help striking Teamsters?
Contact Republic leadership and tell them to get back to the table - workers are not asking for 1 penny more than the other Union waste companies in Boston.
Solidarity with Teamsters Boston fighting against corporate greed and for a better life! #1u
Contact Republic leadership and tell them to get back to the table - workers are not asking for 1 penny more than the other Union waste companies in Boston.
Solidarity with Teamsters Boston fighting against corporate greed and for a better life! #1u
July 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
How can you help striking Teamsters?
Contact Republic leadership and tell them to get back to the table - workers are not asking for 1 penny more than the other Union waste companies in Boston.
Solidarity with Teamsters Boston fighting against corporate greed and for a better life! #1u
Contact Republic leadership and tell them to get back to the table - workers are not asking for 1 penny more than the other Union waste companies in Boston.
Solidarity with Teamsters Boston fighting against corporate greed and for a better life! #1u
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“We will be delivering supplies + walking the line with our fellow union brothers and sisters in their ongoing fight for fair wages, safe working conditions, and dignity on the job,” Peabody Firefighters union president wrote in a call to action for “solidarity.” www.bostonherald.com/2025/07/05/p...
Peabody firefighters join striking Teamsters garbage workers in ‘solidarity’
Trash continued to pile up across more than a dozen Eastern Massachusetts towns and cities as garbagemen remained on strike for a fifth day, this time with support from a local firefighter’s …
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July 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
“We will be delivering supplies + walking the line with our fellow union brothers and sisters in their ongoing fight for fair wages, safe working conditions, and dignity on the job,” Peabody Firefighters union president wrote in a call to action for “solidarity.” www.bostonherald.com/2025/07/05/p...
The National Labor Relations Act is 90, Under Siege, and Showing its Age - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/t...
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June 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Six Ways a 78-Year-Old Law is Still Screwing Workers - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/25/s...
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June 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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I’m Unionizing Amazon for My Mom and Other American Families - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/12/i...
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June 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Read about UE Local 300’s new contract and the long fight to win it in this article by two members.
“I’m willing to strike for higher wages because of my past self that couldn’t afford groceries after moving to Ithaca.”
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“I’m willing to strike for higher wages because of my past self that couldn’t afford groceries after moving to Ithaca.”
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Cornell Graduate Workers Secure Standard-Setting First Contract
UE Local 300-Cornell Graduate Students United members Marguerite Pacheco and Ewa Nizalowska describe their local’s successful first contract campaign in this article for the UE NEWS.
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June 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Action Alert: Tomorrow, join us for an emergency rally in solidarity with our union brother and SEIU California President David Huerta. Monday, June 9th, Boston City Hall Circle Plaza, 2pm.
June 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Action Alert: Tomorrow, join us for an emergency rally in solidarity with our union brother and SEIU California President David Huerta. Monday, June 9th, Boston City Hall Circle Plaza, 2pm.
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The nearly 15 million working people of the AFL-CIO and our affiliated unions demand the immediate release of @californialabor.bsky.social Vice President and @seiuca.bsky.social and SEIU-USWW President David Huerta.
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June 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The nearly 15 million working people of the AFL-CIO and our affiliated unions demand the immediate release of @californialabor.bsky.social Vice President and @seiuca.bsky.social and SEIU-USWW President David Huerta.
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