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November 29, 2025
Welcome back to Solidarity Saturday, your weekly highlight reel and your shortcut to staying plugged in.
This week? Baristas kept raising the stakes, and allies showed up everywhere ready to turn up the volume. New stores joined the strike, picket lines got louder, and solidarity reached new heights. If Starbucks thought folks wouldn’t rise to meet this moment, they were mistaken.
25+ new stores in over 20 cities joined our national ULP strike. The map keeps lighting up.
Here’s what brewed this week:
Solidarity hits different when it reaches the supply chain. The Teamsters sanctioned our strike nationwide. Across the country, drivers are refusing to cross picket lines and are turning their delivery trucks around. This is what worker power looks like.
We took the fight to Brian Niccol
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol isn’t listening to workers, so hundreds of baristas and allies went straight to his private office door to deliver a message he couldn’t ignore. One simple question: why refuse a fair contract when it would cost less than one day’s sale? We’ll wait.
The strike keeps building
With 120+ stores in 85 cities on an open-ended ULP strike, baristas are raising the pressure for real proposals that fix chronic understaffing, guarantee living wages, expand hours, and resolve hundreds of outstanding unfair labor practices. Starbucks knows exactly what it would take to settle this. Baristas are not backing down.
Skip Starbucks, Sip Local
It’s Small Business Saturday, and the best way to support baristas is simple: Skip Starbucks and grab your cup at a local shop – today and every day while baristas are on strike. Tell your friends and family, post it, text it, share it. Every skipped latte turns the pressure up.
This holiday season, we ain’t buying it
This weekend kicks off #WeAintBuyingIt, a nationwide push to skip Target, Amazon, Home Depot, and Starbucks from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. Invest your dollars in small, local, Black, brown, and immigrant-owned businesses and mutual aid instead. If corporations choose greed or union busting, we don’t have to choose them. We ain’t buying it.
Thanks for staying loud. Thanks for having baristas’ backs. And thanks for helping build a fight that isn’t letting up.
In solidarity,
Starbucks Workers United
Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement 
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