🚨LAST CHANCE🚨 support the REI Union and submit your question to REI’s board by May 1st: p2a.co/hNHkkB8

ICYMI: We need your help this week asking @rei to negotiate a fair contract in 2024!!

Follow the link below to lend your voice and send your question right to REI's Board of Directors.👇

p2a.co/hNHkkB8

In March, Steve Buckley of REI Union SoHo & @reiunion workers from all over the country marched on REI HQ, asking the company to commit to reaching a national contract in 2024. REI still hasn't answered us.

Will you ask the REI Board to sign the agreement? p2a.co/hNHkkB8

Steve Buckley of REI Union SoHo tells his story & why he supports the #RetailWorkerSafety Act, which would require employers to provide de-escalation trainings to deal with irate customers.
Join us in calling on NYS legislators to pass this important bill: bit.ly/RSAFETY

REI members: we’ve got an easy action for you to do this week! Ask the Board of Directors if they’ll agree to commit to reaching a national contract by the end of 2024: p2a.co/hNHkkB8

This is the 10th REI store to unionize, out of 181, with active campaigns elsewhere. It’s not hard to see this snowballing and the union(s) achieving pretty meaningful density across the chain.

UPDATE: WE WON OUR ELECTION!!!

An overwhelming majority of us voted in favor of starting a union here at REI Santa Cruz! Thanks so much to everyone who’s supported us in person and online as we’ve fought for this victory - your encouragement has meant a lot.

Here’s to a future

And Santa Cruz, CA makes TEN unionized REI stores! Members of REI Union SoHo got together after our shifts last night to celebrate REI Union Santa Cruz’s election! It’s official, we’re in the DOUBLE DIGITS now 🥹

Join us in cheering on our union family voting #UnionYES in Santa Cruz tomorrow!

“We see our co-workers as whole people, not just who they are at work,” Buckley says. ​“We show up in each other’s lives. We’re building a community so that when the hard times come, we have each other’s backs.”

REI Union SoHo + @reiunion 4ever!

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A month ago, we marched to REI’s headquarters and left this proposed agreement on their doorstep. Our letter called on Corporate to commit to reaching a national agreement by the end of 2024.

REI’s leadership didn’t come downstairs to even discuss this proposal, and a month

Inside REI's anti-union campaign.

The 'co-op' recently fired a popular manager for failing to immediately report union chatter at his store. They put it right in his termination letter.

Outraged workers tell me the company has lost its moral center.

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Let’s go Santa Cruz! ✊

'I’ve seen how powerfully folks in the store will fight for one another. It’s difficult work, but it’s also very important and transformative.' REI Union SoHo and Barnes & Noble Union spoke to @TheIndypendent about the retail/service industry organizing wave in NYC!

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On today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour; an REI worker writes a play REI Union SoHo: 1P on @wpfwdc; @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

The REI Union fights to make REI a sustainable place to work for ALL. “It doesn’t need to be a short-term churn-and-burn retail establishment. What this movement is all about is holding REI to their own level of commitments.” -Steve Buckley, REI Unionsoho

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Different employers but the same old union busting story! Solidarity with Social Policy Workers United from all of us at REI Union SoHo ✊

Just a week after the REI Union marched on REI HQ, another store has joined our movement! Solidarity from REI Union SoHo!

Last week we brought the bargaining table right to REI's doorstep to make it easy for them to sit down and negotiate. Why? They haven’t met us at the table in over 6 months. Instead, they’ve sent union busting attorneys from Morgan Lewis to stall our progress.

They know

Let’s GO! All outdoor industry workers deserve a union ✊