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Tell Amazon to meet Durham workers' demands for an open town hall about unionization. Workers deserve the truth: thelaborforce.org/news/tell-am...

UAW Reaches Tentative Agreement with Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Marking Historic Breakthrough for Southern Autoworkers - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of Americ... Autoworkers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant have won a historic tentative agreement with the company. After making history as the first Southern autoworkers outside the Big Three to join the UAW, th...

HELL YEAH!!! uaw.org/uaw-reaches-...

Washington Post Cuts Amazon Reporter Amid Mass Layoffs The once prestigious newspaper is now fully at the mercy of billionaire owner (and Amazon founder) Jeff Bezos.

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Amazon Web Services provides the computing power that allows DHS and ICE to collect, analyze, & store the huge amounts of data needed to do their dirty work. Without the power of AWS, ICE would not be able to target people at its current scale. Tell Amazon to end its contracts w/ ICE: bit.ly/AMZICE

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Solidarity Session with Amazon Labor Union. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Solidarity Session with Amazon Labor Union. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

This Tuesday, join us for an evening with the leaders of Amazon Labor Union-IBT 1. Get the behind-the-scenes scoop on what it’s like to work and organize at Amazon, and how you can support their union. RSVP here:

Tell Ford's CEO to end the suspension of TJ Sabula, the Ford worker who was not afraid to call out Trump as a "pedophile protector": actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

New Orleans Is Watching You, Fuckers. As the feds chase immigrants, a city chases the feds.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...

Starbucks customers have more than $1 billion sitting on gift cards Tens of millions of dollars in gift cards are never claimed and recorded as revenue each year.

Sources:
www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-says-over-1-billion-is-sitting-on-cards-2022-5
www.thetakeout.com/1913082/starbucks-unspent-gift-card-amount/
www.tastingtable.com/1907921/starbucks-gift-cards-unspent-amount/ 🧵 8/8

Stand with Starbucks workers on strike:
Don’t cross the picket line
Don’t buy Starbucks
Don’t buy Starbucks gift cards
DO come add your pledge to our collective impact counter! solidaritywithbaristas.org 🧵 7/8

–that’s enough to buy everyone in the U.S. a fancy latte–and Starbucks is holding this money interest-free. Additionally, about 10% of gift card dollars are never spent, but still count as revenue for the company. 🧵 6/8

According to Business Insider, Sbux gift cards are bigger than the entire gift card industry. At any given time, Sbux has over 1 billion dollars sitting unspent on gift cards. The company’s Q4 2024 report stated that Sbux had 1.78 billion in stored gift card funds at the end of the fiscal year–🧵5/8

The act of skipping Starbucks gift cards this year is more impactful than you may realize, because for Starbucks, the gift cards are a profit-machine. Or, as one journalist put it, “Starbucks doesn't just profit off selling you coffee, it also profits from selling you the idea of coffee.” 🧵 4/8

Add your pledge to our Collective Impact Counter so we can show Starbucks how much it’s losing by failing to negotiate a fair contract with its workers! solidaritywithbaristas.org 🧵 3/8

In solidarity with Starbucks baristas, The Labor Force has launched SolidarityWithBaristas.org. There, you can pledge to spend however much you’d normally spend on Starbucks gift cards elsewhere, and find locally sourced gift alternatives. 🧵 2/8

This season, we’re not buying Starbucks while @sbworkersunited.org baristas are on strike. That means more than skipping lattes: not buying Starbucks means no beans, no bearista cups, and NO GIFT CARDS. This year, it’s time to give something else: working class solidarity. Let’s talk about it>🧵 1/8

The House is voting on the Protect America's Workforce Act today! Call your Representative now and tell them to pass this critical legislation which will restore federal employees' union rights. act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

–that’s enough to buy everyone in the U.S. a fancy latte–and Starbucks is holding this money interest-free. Additionally, about 10% of gift card dollars are never spent, but still count as revenue for the company. 🧵 6/8

According to Business Insider, Sbux gift cards are bigger than the entire gift card industry. At any given time, Sbux has over 1 billion dollars sitting unspent on gift cards. The company’s Q4 2024 report stated that Sbux had 1.78 billion in stored gift card funds at the end of the fiscal year–🧵5/8

The act of skipping Starbucks gift cards this year is more impactful than you may realize, because for Starbucks, the gift cards are a profit-machine. Or, as one journalist put it, “Starbucks doesn't just profit off selling you coffee, it also profits from selling you the idea of coffee.” 🧵 4/8

Add your pledge to our Collective Impact Counter so we can show Starbucks how much it’s losing by failing to negotiate a fair contract with its workers! solidaritywithbaristas.org 🧵 3/8

In solidarity with Starbucks baristas, The Labor Force has launched SolidarityWithBaristas.org. There, you can pledge to spend however much you’d normally spend on Starbucks gift cards elsewhere, and find locally sourced gift alternatives. 🧵 2/8

Affordability is dominating the discourse. What I don't like about the conversation is that it focuses almost entirely on prices—as if the only way to make life affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability is determined by prices *and pay.* 1/

Jennifer Welch: “The Republican Party has done such a good job propagandizing that if you need anything from the government, you’re a lazy piece of shit and a moocher, when really the parasites in this country are the billionaires.”

Striking baristas arrested today by NYPD while peacefully protesting>>>DON'T BUY STARBUCKS!

Donate to Blue Bottle Independent Union Show your support with a contribution.

And please consider a donation to their strike fund! Blue Bottle Independent Union is funded completely through voluntary dues and community support. Chip in to keep the picket line strong here: secure.actblue.com/donate/bbiun...

Tell Blue Bottle: No Contract, No Customers! For a year Blue Bottle baristas have been negotiating for a strong contract with our Nestlé-owned employer. While our priority has been to secure the changes in the workplace which would dramatically…

Leading up to the strike, Blue Bottle fired three union organizers. The union is calling for a boycott of Blue Bottle until these workers are reinstated. Sign the pledge here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

The Labor Force joined @bbiunion.bsky.social on the picket line--baristas are on strike over Blue Bottle Coffee's unfair labor practices and bad faith bargaining. 1/3 🧵

BIG NEWS: Blue Bottle Coffee baristas are ON STRIKE at all unionized locations (Bay Area & Boston stores). Keep the picket lines strong, donate to the strike fund! secure.actblue.com/donate/bbiun...

@bbiunion.bsky.social Blue Bottle baristas just voted to authorize an unfair labor practice strike. The strike is coming...donate to the strike fund here (100% of funds will go to striking workers!): secure.actblue.com/donate/bbiun...