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2024 LIJWJ Honoree Spotlight, Starbucks News, and More!

We’re thrilled to feature our first 2024 Awards Dinner honoree spotlight! Today we’ll focus in on and celebrate the work of the Elmont Cultural Center!


“The Elmont Cultural Center, also referred to as The Cultural Center, serves as a pivotal hub for fostering effective organization and mobilization in nonpartisan voter education, civic education, and various challenges hindering progress. Our Mission promotes cultural exchange through community events that unite residents, fostering robust and cohesive neighborhoods.”

LIJWJ has worked and collaborated extensively with ECC as a part of the We Are Long Island collaborative. They do amazing work for the Elmont community including hosting large community-centered events and empowering people politically through advocacy on issues like climate, immigration, and transit equity. ECC understands and knows that all of these issues are inseparable and that together we are more powerful.

If you’re not following them on Instagram already, head over and start today! And stay tuned over the next month as we spotlight the rest of our powerful and inspiring 2024 honorees!

Stay tuned for more spotlights on our other honorees:

And be sure to join us for an energizing, movement-strengthening, and worker-centered evening on Tuesday July 30 at Captain Bill’s in Bay Shore! Help us reach our $40,000 fundraising goal by getting your tickets now using this link or by sending us this form!

West Hempstead Starbucks Win!

If you haven’t heard the news, we have ANOTHER unionized Starbucks on LI!! 🎉



The West Hempstead store at 580 Hempstead Tpke. voted last Thursday to become the NINTH Starbucks organized with Starbucks Workers United! A few days before the vote LIJWJ staff, board, and community members dropped by the store to say ‘hi’ and show support.



Congrats to the workers on a successful vote! Your community isn’t going anywhere and we’ll be alongside you in your struggle for a contract and beyond!

Rally in Defense of Trans Rights This Saturday!

From our friends at Gender Equality New York:

“Bring signs, noise makers and your voice! Join us to express your opposition to the Nassau County Trans Ban Bill… Join us this Saturday. June 24 at noon on the steps of the legislative building in Mineola, NY.”

Get the Latest on the Unemployment Bridge Program TODAY at 5!

The Fund Excluded Workers Coalition (FEW) is hosting campaign updates to share the latest in the push for unemployment justice. LIJWJ will be crossposting both streams on our Facebook page. Head over to FB on your own or use our profile link to tune in!

“Join the Fund Excluded Workers Coalition for a campaign update on Thursday, June 27th at 5pm (English with Bangla and Haitian-Creole interpretation) and Monday, July 1st at 6pm (Spanish) over Facebook Live. We will review key updates from this legislative session, as well as our plan to win the Unemployment Bridge Program so thousands of excluded workers can access unemployment compensation!”

In solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice

Starbucks Workers’ Rights Board Report OUT NOW and More!!

Starbucks Workers Rights Report is OUT NOW!

After a powerful hearing, and months of coordination with workers and the Workers’ Rights Board commissioners, we’re pleased to announce the board’s report is out today! Head to this link to have a read! The report contains testimonies from the workers alongside commissioner recommendations to Starbucks on how they can resolve and repair the problems they created by exploiting and harassing their workers.

Earlier today LIJWJ was joined by Workers’ Rights Board Commissioners, community and labor supporters, and Starbucks workers at a press conference for the report’s release.  

“It’s not just about the workers deserving a workplace where they are treated with Dignity and respect where they are safe and supported” said LIJWJ’s Diane Cantave at the press conference. “It’s about the Starbucks workers wanting things to run smoothly for their customers and being met with humiliation and harassment. In an effort to unionize their stores because of their issues not being addressed.” It’s LIJWJ’s hope that the report will be a useful tool for workers to demonstrate community support for their organizing. The report will be distributed to Starbucks’ management to convey that customers are behind the workers as they head into as second session of bargaining at the end of this month.

If you support organizing Starbucks workers, let them know using this form! We’ll be passing on messages left here to the workers heading into bargaining. They’re up against a powerful multi-billion dollar company, but that doesn’t amount to much when the workers know we’re behind them!

Bellport Community Garden Education Event Coming Up Soon!

There’s a special chance to connect with other like minded folks and with the Earth coming up! LIJWJ, the Brookhaven Landfill Action & Remediation Group (BLARG), and 1199 SEUI’s Healthcare Education Program (HEP) are hosting From Garden to Table to Black Gold on May 25 from 2 – 4PM! The event will feature teach-ins on how the garden operates and the important place it holds in the Bellport community.



This is a great chance to learn about a living, breathing community project that is bringing people together to fight for justice! To register for this event head to this link!

LIJWJ Awards Dinner

Save the date! The Annual LIJWJ Awards Dinner, where we gather in community to recognize inspiring local individuals, organizations, and unions, is officially on the calendar for Tuesday July 30 from 6 – 8:30PM at Captain Bill’s!


Stay tuned for RSVP info and honoree announcements!