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Welcome to Solidarity Saturday, your weekly highlight reel and shortcut to staying plugged in.
Yesterday was May Day, International Workers Day, and allies showed up by flyering at rallies across the country. Workers everywhere are fighting the same fight. We’re better at this when we do it together.
And the fight keeps growing. This week, baristas at Ella & 43rd in Houston read a letter they wrote to announce their organizing efforts to Starbucks leadership. Thousands of union baristas are fighting for increased wages, guaranteed staffing, stronger protections against unfair treatment, and more that address the issues we’ve seen only get worse over years of profit-over-people decisions.
Here’s this week’s brew:
Seeing a lot of Starbucks ads lately? That’s not an accident.
Sponsored content everywhere you look, and there’s a reason for that. While baristas are still waiting on a fair contract, Starbucks is spending big to push the union busting, the ICE policies, and everything else they’d rather you not think about way down your feed.
Even managers know: the union gets shit done.
A Starbucks manager left this comment on one of our posts. They weren’t in the union and had to follow every rule to the T. But when a pipe burst and their store closed, SBWU negotiated protections the company never would have offered on its own. While they spend time and money trying to divide us, there are leaders out there who support our right to organize. Love to see it.
Senator Ed Markey sat down with union baristas.
The Massachusetts Senator met with members of Starbucks Workers United to talk about their fight for a fair contract. Baristas over billionaires. Workers over wealth. More of this, please.
No Starbucks, no app, not until baristas have a fair contract. 
In solidarity,
Starbucks Workers United
Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement 
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