Malachi Dray

To Starbucks Workers United members grin in city council chambers

A Pizza Hut worker in our union talks to a Starbucks barista and Starbucks Workers United about our shared struggle while waiting for city council to start

A group picture of both unions waiting for city council to start inside the chamber

Starbucks Workers United members behind the seal of Los Angeles

Today's strikes comes after dozens of Los Angeles fast food workers and @sbworkersunited.org baristas converged on City Council to make it clear how serious we are our demands for 55,000+ workers.

In 2025, we begun moving a #FastFoodFairWork ordinance.

In 2026, we’ll do whatever it takes to win.

Pessimism of the Will - Viewpoint Magazine “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” has become one of the classic clichés of politics. It is supposed to suggest that one should have clear-eyed recognition of how bad things are, witho...

Rest in power, Asad

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a great blue heron framed by red dogwood leaves

This great blue heron is thoroughly disgusted by the number of labor law violations Starbucks has committed

BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee

totally normal government!!

Trump’s bombing of Yemen risks wider Middle East war U.S. bombers killed at least 31 people in Yemen this weekend, mainly women and children in residential areas. With Donald Trump, there is none of the pretense offered by previous presidents that strik...

Trump's bombing of Yemen risks wider Middle East war. At least 31 dead in latest U.S. bombing run.
#news
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CALL TO ACTION:
Jeanette Vizguerra is a mother, union leader, and pillar of the Denver community. She was abducted by ICE on Monday evening on her way back from work -- without a valid deportation order.

Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

Trump moving to reduce/eliminate the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), which works to mediate between unions and companies when they can't come to an agreement. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

IMLS is good and it should not be shut down, imo

Labor Secretary nominee Chavez-DeRemer attacks worker rights, kowtows to Trump WASHINGTON—Republican attacks on workers, particularly union workers, continued as GOP President Donald Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary, former Rep.

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HAPPENING NOW: Starbucks baristas at the Park Slope location announce they’re going on STRIKE in response to the company refusing to bargain with our union over their store's closure!

Customers & community allies have already shown up in support! 🔥NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE! 🔥✊

Dare to struggle, dare to win

Locked in —

Feeling powerless or bogged down by the world right now? Our #RedForBread actions are easy, fun, and a great way to build community while helping workers win what they deserve.

Invite your friends and sign-up today - our rank-and-file would really appreciate the support!

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Oh yeah, and millenarians.

Quacks, hawks, fascists, charlatans, and paedophiles.

Anti-Union Captive Audience Meetings Outlawed by Labor Board (1) Mandatory “captive audience” meetings in which companies argue against unionization are illegal, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a case involving Amazon.com Inc., prohibiting one of employ...

HUGE win for worker freedom: the NLRB has just ruled that captive audience meetings are illegal! 
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A photo of an employer talking to a worker with the text: Board Restores Prior Standard Governing Employer Predictions about Unionization’s Impact on Employer-Employee Relationship

Today, the Board issued a decision in Siren Retail Corp. dba Starbucks clarifying the test that it will use to evaluate whether an employer’s predictions about the impacts of unionization on its relationship with individual employees are unlawful threats. www.nlrb.gov/news-outreac...

Might fuck around and disdain to conceal my views.

Yuma farmworker and father of 2 dies amid record heat wave A 26-year-old Yuma farmworker and father of two young children died amid Arizona's record heat wave. His family is raising money for funeral expenses.

A 26 year old farm worker was killed by heat last week in Yuma, AZ. It was 116° that day, and Dario Mendoza leaves behind two children.

Heat deaths are enraging, violent and entirely preventable. We desperately need federal heat standards, NOW.

A photo of a full 900 lb bin of of garlic in a Huron CA garlic field. Other full bins in the background.

Eli shared a photo of one of the large bins of garlic she and her coworkers filled earlier this month in Huron CA. This bin holds about 900 lbs of garlic. The high this day was 109°. Workers harvest from their knees. The smell in the field can be overwhelming.

Starbucks Illegally Shut Down Unionized Store, Judge Rules Starbucks Corp. violated federal labor law when it shut down a unionized store in Ithaca, New York, a US labor board judge ruled Thursday.

BREAKING - A federal judge has found that Starbucks ILLEGALLY closed a unionized store in Ithaca, NY. The court has ordered Starbucks to IMMEDIATELY reopen it and reinstate all workers.

There aren't enough institutions on Bluesky

I can't believe they drove me here