Coffee Workers Coalition

The Coffee Workers Coalition is a collective of coffee industry workers across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens who came together in support of the rising number of coffee organizing campaigns in 2024. We saw a need for support specific to the coffee industry and responded by creating a new network of individual worker-organizers and union campaigns that can freely associate. As an industry with only recent precedents of participation in the labor movement, many of us were encountering questions with no documented or clear-cut answers. We addressed that need by beginning to meet together online and in-person. 

 

Our members are workers in many different parts of the coffee industry, from barista to production workers and every role in between! We volunteer our time and effort. We are fiscally sponsored by Raft Foundation, a US-based 501 (c)(3) fiscal sponsor, which allows us a place to hold community-raised funds to help coffee workers in need without committing personnel power to filing paperwork instead of directly working to build union power. 

 

We are not a union, government agency, or LLC and do not endorse political candidates. Elected officials or those seeking elected office with a tie to the coffee industry in NYC are welcome to support us or become members in our community in their capacity as individuals, with the understanding that CWC will not endorse them or their political office in any way. We operate as a horizontal organization with members being responsible for one another and keeping each other in account, according to our guiding principles of trust, care, and solidarity.