Successful Campaigns

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Successful Campaigns
  • Protect frontline employees at Industrious co-working spaces
    Thank you for all of your support on this campaign! We were able to achieve almost all of our demands and have received accommodations from management.
    2,200 Signatures
    Created by Concerned Industrious Employee
  • NBCUniversal: pay the migrant workers making your products in Thailand!
    NBCUniversal finally agreed to pay up the #Kanlayanee workers stitching their Despicable Me T shirts! This is the first time migrant workers in the Mae Sot area in Thailand receive full compensation for the wage theft they fight against. Thank you for your relentless support, we love international solidarity! Without the energy and work from people and organisations all around the world, this would not have been possible. For two years a group of Burmese migrant workers were illegally paid less than a dollar an hour, were forced to work unpaid overtime, and had their holiday pay withheld at the Kanlayanee factory in Mae Sot, Thailand. In Sept 2019, the Kanlayanee workers bravely spoke out to stop the labour abuses. A few weeks later, the factory suddenly closed, leaving them with nothing. They have been fighting for justice ever since; demanding that they receive the $100.000 usd they are legally owed for making products for four major global companies: Disney, Starbucks, NBCUniversal and Tesco Lotus - เทสโก้ โลตัส. The factory owner made sure they got blacklisted as a result, leaving them unable to find alternative work. What seems like nothing to these brands, means the world for the workers. With this compensation, they can repay debts, send money to their family back home in Myanmar and rebuild their lives.
    3,842 Signatures
    Created by Mirjam van Heugten
  • Trader Joe’s: Crew needs hazard pay now!
    We won, in a way. While Trader Joe's still refuses to provide hazard pay to the thousands of workers who are putting ourselves on the front lines of a global pandemic, our petition raised awareness among our coworkers of the power of collective action. It appears we also may have inspired other grocery workers to petition their companies to provide hazard pay, many of which have been successful. Sadly, Trader Joe's is hoping that maintaining an image of compassion will excuse the company from having to tangibly act with compassion. The company used the existence of this petition to lie to workers, telling them it was a trick to get people to sign their name to the union effort. That is so emphatically untrue. Telling crew that to scare them is a cut and clear Unfair Labor Practice violation. Their attempt to union-bust as we cry out for help amid a global health crisis makes it clearer than ever where corporate's priorities lie – and the work we need to do to get them to act right. Our win is not because Trader Joe's is providing its workers common sense policy, but because our fellow crewmembers are now unshakably aware that this company will refuse to do what's right if we remain quiet. We are ending this campaign at 20,000 signatures to stand as a reminder for crewmembers that we are here and we will not back down. We are ending this campaign at 20,000 signatures to remind corporate that we have broad public support and worker solidarity on our side – and we're only just getting started. Solidarity forever.
    21,454 Signatures
    Created by Trader Joe’s Union Coalition
  • We Support a Just & Healthy Workplace at WE ACT for Environmental Justice
    46 days after we took our campaign public, WE ACT for Environmental Justice has agreed to officially recognize our union! This is a huge victory for the program staff at WE ACT! We are deeply grateful for your support. Over 3,100 of you stood with us by signing our petition, and the public attention you helped bring to our campaign was, without a doubt, an important factor in this victory. We hope you'll celebrate your contribution today, and that you'll stay connected with us moving forward. Our next big step is to negotiate with management a fair and just contract that reflects and memorializes the key issues we've been fighting for all along: health, fairness, transparency, accountability, and a voice in the decisions that impact us day to day. If you're on Twitter, check out our page for live updates: twitter.com/weareweact
    3,148 Signatures
    Created by WE ACT Staff Union Picture
  • Raise Starbucks Pay to $15 an Hour
    Starbucks has released a statement that its looking to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. We won. Thank you to all baristas and non baristas who signed this campaign.
    10,738 Signatures
    Created by Jasmine Barringer
  • Lovestruck Game Writers Deserve Fair Pay!
    Thank you so much for your support! We are struck by the enormous amount of love you, the players and community, have shown us over these last 21 days. The number of people who added their voices to ours helped to demonstrate that they believed, as we do, in a fair wage for quality work. Thanks to you, we have reached an agreeable resolution with Voltage and we are excited to share that every single writer has received a meaningful pay increase and improved transparency at work!
    4,145 Signatures
    Created by Voltage Writers Picture
  • Amazon, give all part-time warehouse workers Paid Time Off
    (March 22, 2020): We won Paid Time Off! After six months of Amazonians organizing across the country, we have won what Amazon arbitrarily denied us until now. Now we must continue and fight for health insurance and real measures that prevent the spread of coronavirus in our warehouses. Read more about our fight to win PTO here: https://medium.com/@amazoniansunitedsacramento/together-we-fought-for-and-won-paid-time-off-932621114250
    4,346 Signatures
    Created by Amazonians United Sacramento Picture
  • Publix: The worst paid family leave policy
    WE WON! Publix announced in December of 2021 that it is finally going to start providing paid parental leave to all employees. Thank you for advocacy to help win change for 225,000 Publix employees! While it's a great step in the right direction for Publix to now provide all employees with some paid leave, their policy is unequal -- the amount of paid leave that employees can access will range from 2-6 weeks based on duration of employment, whether the staff person is salaried or hourly, etc. We need to continue fighting so that paid leave is not an elite benefit, and everyone can be there for their families in the moments that matter most. - Paid Leave for the U.S.
    6,124 Signatures
    Created by Adam Nolan
  • Don't Let Law Firms Hide Harassment and Discrimination
    NALP Agrees to Help Lift the Shroud on Firms’ Forced Arbitration Policies Read more here: https://www.peoplesparity.org/nalp-agrees-to-help-lift-the-shroud-on-firms-forced-arbitration-policies/
    1,012 Signatures
    Created by Pipeline Parity Project Picture
  • Tech should not be in the business of war
    WHEN WE ORGANIZE, WE WIN!! Thank you for signing on to amplify the call for our employers to say NO to tech for warfare. Today we learned that Google will not renew its AI contract with the Department of Defense. (Read the story here https://gizmodo.com/google-plans-not-to-renew-its-contract-for-project-mave-1826488620) We, employees of the tech industry claim this as our victory, but we also acknowledge this is just step one. We will continue to fight for Microsoft, IBM and Amazon to follow Google’s lead, and we will continue to fight for the tech industry’s commitment to no more future military contracts.
    376 Signatures