Workers and unions organizing for power at work.

We helped baristas defeat a historic, illegal union busting campaign by the world’s largest coffee company and continue to collaborate with Starbucks workers as they bargain their first contract.

The SOC is part of a growing, broad-based movement confronting huge corporations — from franchisors like McDonald’s to platform companies like Amazon — that engage in dominating and unfair practices that harm workers, consumers, and small businesses.

SOC research has exposed the serious dangers Amazon’s business model creates for warehouse workers and drivers. The company’s relentless focus on profits and delivery speed has resulted in more than 100,000 serious injuries for its workers in the last three years alone. We support grassroots, worker-driven struggles for safe, reasonable workloads, and organizing unions at Amazon.

We support the Union of Southern Service Workers' groundbreaking work placing a spotlight on the low-road working conditions across industries in the South, including fast food, dollar stores, and warehousing.