For nearly five years, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for what every worker deserves: better pay, enough hours to make ends meet, safe staffing, and a fair union contract.
More than 12,000 baristas have organized with Starbucks Workers United, winning more than 700 union elections nationwide. But instead of finalizing a fair first contract, Starbucks stonewalls at bargaining while workers fight for the basics they need to survive.
It would take less than one day of sales for Starbucks to settle a fair, reasonable contract with workers with better pay, better staffing, and enough hours to live on. Instead, Starbucks chooses to be the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history.
This is why Starbucks Workers are launching a new boycott campaign, and asking you to sign the Boycott Starbucks Pledge. Please support by committing to take your coffee dollars elsewhere until Starbucks finalizes a fair union contract and stops unionbusting! Every person who joins the boycott sends a clear message that workers deserve respect, and Starbucks can’t keep delaying the fair contract baristas have earned.
Take the Boycott Starbucks Pledge
LIIJA Action
On September 27 the Long Island Immigration Justice Alliance (LIIJA) is holding an interfaith vigil and community march to mark one year since the death of Santos Banegas Reyes. Reyes was abducted by ICE agents while on his way to work outside of a Key Food in Hempstead. Less than 24 hours later died in the Nassau County jail. Join LIIJA to make it clear that we as Long Islanders support and welcome our immigrant friends and neighbors, and that this ICE terror needs to stop!
Catholics Welcoming Immigrants Special Mass
Join Catholics Welcoming Immigrants (CWI) for a special Mass in solidarity with Long Island’s immigrant community! CWI is a grassroots movement of lay Long Island Catholics, religious sisters and clergy promoting Gospel values and Church teaching to inspire a faithful response to immigration.
Click the following links for flyers in Spanish and Haitian Creole.
Thank you for being a friend of LIJWJ, and we’re glad to be alongside you in the fight for workers’ rights!
In solidarity,
Long Island Jobs with Justice
