Independent Organizing Network Report

ION has made a lot of headway in 2025. On April 16th, we helped launch the Think Coffee Independent Union (TCIU) in New York City.

Then, on May Day (5/1of this year, ION released Volume One of the “Post-NLRA Project” in collaboration with law students at UC Berkeley and Northeastern, which discusses the potential implications on both labor law and organizing, should the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) be repealed. The next volume will review the ways in which workers are approaching organizing either outside of or in spite of the NLRA.

Most recently, on Tuesday, June 17th, a nod to Boston’s 617 area code, workers at four Blue Bottle locations in the East Bay of California publicly launched their campaign to join Blue Bottle Independent Union (BBIU), which was created after all six Blue Bottle Coffee locations in Boston voted to unionize in May of last year.

You can read more about our work, or volunteer with us, at poweredbyION.com.