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Let’s Go!! Starbucks baristas just can’t stop winning!

These cuties jumped at the chance to vote Union Yes! We’re so excited to welcome the newest kids on the block from Santee, CA!

They join the over 11,000 already Union Starbucks workers across the country!👏✊🎉

This is a must-read from two of our heroes in corporate accountability celebrating robust enforcement of antitrust laws - former FTC Chair Lina Khan and former Asst AG Doha Mekki in the NYT.

Opinion | Americans Are Stepping Up to Stop Our Corporate Goliaths

Last week showed us how Americans can keep corporate Goliaths in check, even when the federal government refuses to.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

A jury just decided: Live Nation illegally monopolized the concert ticket market, crushing competition and raising prices.

Thank you, state AGs for standing up for working families and holding big corporations accountable under our antitrust laws.

Amazon is behind on jobs promised for funding to build Virginia headquarters The company expected to be nearly halfway to its goal of 25,000 new jobs in the area by 2038. It has created a little more than 7,000.

Another day, another example of Amazon failing to create the jobs and prosperity it promised in exchange for eye-watering amounts of taxpayer money.... 👀
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

60 million workers say they’d join a union if they could. Only 10% have one.
That’s not a lack of interest. That’s a system rigged for bosses.
Time to change the rules and put power back where it belongs: with working people. #UnionsForAll

You’re paying more for rent, gas, and food.

They’re spending more on war.

This is a broken system at work.

A farmworker stands beside his tractor hooked to a water tank used to irrigate or suppress dust across dry field roads.

A farmworker stands beside his tractor hooked to a water tank used to irrigate or suppress dust across dry field roads. This is essential as the dust can settle on grapevines, increasing the risk of diseases, mites, and fruit rot. #WeFeedYou

Taxing billionaires would raise TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS for education, healthcare, childcare, and lowering costs.

And America's billionaires would still be the richest on the planet.

It's time we end trickle-down. Tax the rich.

Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes.
That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services.
This is why people are mad as hell.

BREAKING: In just the 16 months since Trump was reelected, the collective fortune of billionaires has grown by $1.96 trillion.

More than half of that growth comes from just the top 15 billionaires, who alone grew their collective wealth by over $1 trillion.

In this U.S. hot spot for data centers, voters have turned against them Findings from a new Washington Post-Schar School poll come as Prince William County on Tuesday abandoned plans for one of the country’s biggest and most controversial data center projects.

In VA, public support for data centers has dropped from 69% to 35% in just three years.

VA is home to "data center alley" -- the highest concentration of data centers in the world. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

ICYMI: Maryland is leading the way.

The state just passed a bill to ban surveillance-based pricing and dynamic pricing at grocery stores—protecting families from being charged more based on their data.

This is what putting people over profits looks like.

We just won our trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
 
A jury ruled in our favor and is holding the companies responsible for their illegal monopoly that cost consumers millions of dollars.
 
This is a landmark victory to protect New Yorkers from harmful monopolies.

This Tax Day 287 major companies are avoiding $139,256,870,000 in taxes on $1 trillion of their 2025 profits.

Three unions unite in massive LAUSD strike threat: What's at stake for workers, families Three unions representing nearly 85% of LAUSD's 83,300 workers -- teachers, support staff and administrators -- threaten to strike on April 14 in an unprecedented alliance.

Three unions. 70,000 workers.

LAUSD runs because workers make it run.

If the district can find billions for reserves, it can do right by the people holding these schools together. https://seiu.co/3QFz63l

We're committed to good-faith bargaining.

Can Starbucks's actions say the same?

The truth is right in front of us: when workers are struggling, when people feel trapped in jobs they cannot afford to leave, when younger workers cannot see a future, the economy is not healthy. It is failing the people.

A simple poster with 3D text that says BARGAINING UPDATE CALL - APRIL 14, 5:30pm PT, 8:30pm ET - RSVP @ bit.ly/aprilSBWU. Graphics include the Starbucks Workers United logo and a large group of SBWU bargaining delegates raising their fists up and wearing SBWU shirts.

ALLIES: It's time for a call to action!

Join us on April 14th to hear directly from baristas, get an update on bargaining with Starbucks, and learn how YOUR support can make a real difference for workers everywhere.

RSVP today and we'll send you a Zoom link before the call! bit.ly/aprilSBWU

Workers Need More Paths to Join the Labor Movement [This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead. C...

Nearly half of non-union workers say they would join a union if they could.
But only 1 in 10 actually belongs to one.
That gap is proof of exactly what working people already know: this system was built to keep workers from claiming their power.
Working people need real pathways to organize now.

“It would only be a matter of time before Amazon went back on USPS’s Universal Service Obligation to “provide prompt, reliable, affordable, and efficient postal services to all Americans, regardless of where they live.”

Seems like they're taking a page from Amazon's playbook, where prices can fluctuate by 300% in a single day.

The Future Belongs to Workers: An Animated Story YouTube video by Union of Southern Service Workers

Once upon a time… 3 greedy men in a castle couldn’t see the workers who built their wealth.

This isn’t a fairy tale. It’s a choice: let them keep taking, or come together, organize, & build a new future.

The future belongs to us. And it’s right now.

Watch ➡️ youtu.be/KNZsRYnuC4g

#OrganizeTheSouth

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

And that’s why workers everywhere are fighting back. #UnionsForAll #UnionStrong

Hundreds go on strike at major Navy shipbuilder in Maine over wages and benefits Hundreds of designers, clerks and technicians are on strike in Maine at one of the U.S. Navy’s largest shipbuilding contractors

Lastly, the Bath Marine Draftsmen’s Association went on strike at General Dynamics Bath Iron Workers.

The shipyard’s offer doesn’t meet member concerns on wages, insurance and retirement income security, weeks after being touted for their work.

abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

San Francisco International Airport’s AirTrain workers on strike Beginning Monday, 54 electrical and maintenance workers for the San Francisco International Airport’s AirTrain — which carries travelers to different terminals and locations around the airport — are on strike,

@ibewinternational.bsky.social Local 617 went on strike yesterday at San Francisco International Airport. The AirTrain workers are looking for good faith bargaining and were met with false information about contract proposals and canceled bargaining sessions.

www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/s...

@propublicaguild.org authorized a strike after over two years of bargaining for a first contract.

Management rejected restrictions on replacing jobs with AI, denied wage increases that keep up with cost of living, and didn’t agree to job security protections.

www.nyguild.org/post/unioniz...

JBS Strike Adds Fuel to Growing Worker Strife Over Health Costs A strike involving mostly immigrant employees at one of the nation’s largest beef packing plants is the latest evidence of expanding worker concerns over rising health-care costs and faltering wages t...

The meatpackers at JBS are still on strike in Greeley, Colorado. Healthcare costs and wages that aren’t keeping up with inflation making things untenable for workers.

A raise that doesn’t keep up with inflation is a pay cut by another name.

news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

A wide array of people out and about, some carrying picket signs displaying the importance of public schools and that they are ready to strike on behalf of the workers that keep everything together.

Beyond that, more hours and staffing to help students, smaller class sizes, more staff that specializes in counseling, special education, and mental health, expanding phys. Ed and the arts at elementary schools and protections against subcontracting and AI are among the asks.