Stand Up KC

Everyone has heard of @amazon ’s tracking software in their warehouses, but we face something similar at @mcdonalds too. We’re surveilled so they can exploit us more efficiently!

We are human beings! @TacoBell needs to start treating us like it! #FightFor15

Companies like @BurgerKing and @McDonalds make billions every year while we have to rely on food pantries just to get by. All we’re asking for are higher wages and dignity. #Fightfor15

Plaza Academy student walk out for May Day! @moworkers @standupkc @pslkansascitymo @sunrisemvmtkc

**English below** ¡Los habitantes de Missouri se LEVANTAN este dia internacional del trabajo, viernes 1 de mayo! ¿Te unirás a nosotros y a miles de organizaciones para un día en el que recordaremos que poseemos el poder colectivo en ciudades y pueblos de todo el país? 🔥🕊️ Trabajamos arduamente para ganarnos el pan que toda persona merece; sin embargo, cada vez con mayor frecuencia, no vemos los frutos de nuestro trabajo. Los patrones mantienen nuestros salarios estancados. Los políticos egoístas nos enfrentan entre nosotros para arrebatarnos nuestras libertades. Los multimillonarios ganan, mientras nosotros perdemos.🚨 ¡No tiene por qué ser así! A lo largo de la historia, los trabajadores han forjado un extenso legado de mejoras en nuestras vidas actuales. Nosotros, el pueblo, somos la razón detrás de los avances que hemos logrado; no obstante, aún no nos encontramos donde deberíamos estar, y eso es evidente. La lucha no termina aquí. No podemos quedarnos esperando a que las cosas cambien por arte de magia. Nadie lo hará por nosotros 🗣: únete a nosotros, ven y prueba por ti mismo. Haznos saber que asistirás y que nos respaldas: bit.ly/MOmayday26 **English** Missourians are RISING UP on May Day, Friday, May 1! Will you join us and thousands of organizations for a day of remembering we have the collective power in cities and towns across the country? 🔥🕊️ We work hard to earn the bread all people deserve, but more and more we aren’t seeing the fruits of our labor. Bosses hold down our wages. Self-centered politicians turn us against each other to steal away our freedoms. Billionaires win, while we lose.🚨 It doesn’t have to be this way! Workers across history have a long legacy of improving our current lives. We the people are the reason why we have made advances, but we are not where we need to be and that’s evident. It does not end here. We can’t wait for things to just magically change. No one is going to do it for us 🗣 join us, come and do it for yourself. Let us know you are coming and have our back: bit.ly/MOmayday26 #WorkersOverBillionaires #immigrants #immigrantrights #inmigrantesenusa #powertothepeople

🎥 KANSAS CITY! This May Day, we’re hosting a citywide screening of Norma Rae — an inspirational story of one woman and her coworkers’ struggle to win a union at the town textile mill. Sign up to join us at bit.ly/normaraemayday 📅 Friday, May 1, at 1pm 📍 Independence Boulevard Christian Church (606 Gladstone Ave) Wondering how to spend your time when you skip class or walk off the job? Join our film screening, and spread the word to your coworkers, family, and friends! #MOworkers #WorkersOverBillionaires #NormaRae

MWC and @standupkc leader Bill Thompson on Speaker Patterson’s Everything Tax Scam in KC Business Journal: “The vast majority of Missourians are ALREADY seeing prices go through the roof and putting higher sales taxes on EVERYTHING will just add insult to injury!” We can’t afford this income tax repeal. We can’t afford higher sales taxes on everything from our rent to our groceries. We can’t afford cuts to Medicare, schools, and the disability program that employs workers like Bill. That’s why thousands of Missourians — Black, white, and Brown; urban, suburban, and rural — are joining the nationwide day of disruption on International Workers Day, May 1, to win a country that puts workers over billionaires and makes the wealthy pay their fair share just like the rest of us! Join us: bit.ly/MOmayday26 #MOworkers #WorkersOverBillionaires #noMOwork

Our statement on the @kcroyals stadium announcement. #MOworkers

🎤 “The Mayor, the Governor, [billionaire @kcroyals owner] John Sherman — those are folks who’ve shown us who they care about. And it’s not taxpayers and Kansas Citians!” – @standupkc and MWC leader Terrence Wise with @fox4kc #MOworkers #RoyalTaxScam

Kansas Citians are demanding a city, state, and country that puts WORKERS like us over BILLIONAIRES like @kcroyals owner John Sherman. Rally with us and millions of Americans on the upcoming nationwide day of disruption: bit.ly/kcmayday2026 ⏱️ Friday, May 1 @ 5:30pm 👉 Washington Square Park (100 E Pershing Rd, KCMO 64108) We’re sick and tired of politicians like Mayor Quinton Lucas who blatantly disrespect the will of the people, and the billionaires who profit off OUR taxpayer money! It’s time to shut it down on May Day — no work, no school, no shopping. See you there ✊🏾 #MOworkers #WorkersOverBillionaires #noMOwork

Our statement on the Royal Tax Scam. #MOworkers

“Previously, I’d go to my boss and say ‘Hey, I need a raise,’ and he’d laugh in my face. But if all my brothers and sisters stand with me in solidarity asking for that raise, it’s no longer an ask — it’s a DEMAND!” 😤 Low-wage worker and MWC leader Bill Thompson knows that when workers stand together, we can make the impossible possible. That’s why he’s got a plan to rally with working people across the country this May Day. Will you join Bill? Sign up for our No Work call on 4/13 at 5:30pm: bit.ly/noMOwork #MOworkers