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The SOC has partnered with the Communications Workers of America to support the ground-breaking tech workers organizing through CODE-CWA at major tech companies including Alphabet. Alphabet workers from all teams, product lines and employment status are joining together to win equitable working conditions, freedom from harassment and discrimination, and the ability to refuse work that ... Read more

The Fight for $15 and a Union began in 2012 when two hundred fast-food workers walked off the job to demand $15 an hour and union rights in New York City. Today, it’s a global movement impacting wages around the world. McDonald’s and low-wage employers everywhere make billions of dollars in profit, push costs onto ... Read more

Build power for yourself and your co-workers by organizing a union in your workplace. Whether you’re seeking a voice at work, fair treatment, better wages and working conditions, or greater job security, this page serves as a roadmap for finding out where you can get started. Know Your Rights This guide from the Department of ... Read more

Have you or someone you know ever been hurt while on a shift at an Amazon warehouse? Share your written or video story with us! Four years after Amazon pledged to make the company “Earth’s Safest Place to Work” by cutting its total injury rate in half by 2025, a new analysis from the Strategic ... Read more

Injury rates in Amazon warehouses fell in 2024 for the third year in a row, but a coalition of labor unions that tracks the data said Amazon isn’t making improvements fast enough. Read full article at Seattle Times

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.

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.

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.

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.

Impactful Victories Over the last ten years the Strategic Organizing Center has been involved in some of the most important campaigns confronting corporate power.  Working with unions, workers, shareholders, consumers and other allies, these are some of the successful initiatives we have supported where workers and unions have won Power at Work. Starbucks Workers Win ... Read more