Toolkits
Starbucks Workers Campaign
Students Against Starbucks (SAS) is a student-led campaign on university and college campuses nationwide in solidarity with Starbucks Workers United baristas, a national union of 11,000 Starbucks baristas who are fighting for a fair union contract.
College and university students are one of Starbucks’ key customer demographics supporting their multi-billion dollar business. Studies show that the average college student spends about $63 or more a month on buying coffee. In February 2024, students held a national day of action where they loudly declared “Starbucks Gets an F” for how it treats its workers. Just one week later, SBWU brought the company to the bargaining table – and student organizing played an important role in making that happen. When students speak out, Starbucks listens.
Why should our university get involved in this dispute between workers and the
company?
When colleges serve Starbucks on their campuses, they are endorsing the worst labor rights violator in modern history. Starbucks Workers United has filed more than 1,000 unfair labor practice charges against Starbucks with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Administrative law judges (ALJ) at the NLRB have found that Starbucks has committed more
than
Toolkit ICE Off Campus
This toolkit is intended for campus-based groups to keep their colleges and communities safe from ICE (including Customs and Border Control and other federal agents). Seek out student, faculty, labor and alumni groups to work together using these and other strategies.Along with this toolkit we have developed a training deck for organizing your campus and ICE watch.
UCLA Rally to get ICE off Campus January 28, 2026
BECOME A
CAMPUS MEMBER TODAY!
Joining USSA as a campus member connects your institution to the nation’s oldest and largest student-led advocacy organization. Campus membership gives your students direct access to national campaigns, leadership development, and a community of organizers fighting for education justice. Together, we build power, uplift student voices, and create real change on campuses and beyond.
Your ongoing support helps strengthen national student organizing, leadership development, and campaigns for equity and justice on campuses across the country.
Email info@usstudentassociation.org to join us.
REQUEST A TRAINING
USSA offers comprehensive national training resources designed to help students organize, lead, and win. Whether building campaigns, developing leadership, or mobilizing voters, our trainings give students the skills to create real change.
GROW Training
Are you ready to bring direct action organizing training to your campus or region? The United States Student Association (USSA) is offering the Grassroots Organizing Weekend (GROW)—a 2-day, intensive training to help students build strategic, issue-based campaigns that win real change.
EAT Training
The USSAF Electoral Action Training (EAT) is a two-day program that teaches students how to plan and run effective, non-partisan voter registration, education, and get-out-the-vote campaigns.