Use this form to tell Mary Beth Laughton what's on your mind as a Co-op member!  We'll mail her a letter with your name on it so you can join the chorus of Co-op members demanding REI stop union busting and return to its democratic roots.

 

Please keep your messages to Mary Beth respectful and focused on the issues. You can check out the prompts below for inspiration!

 

Prompts to consider:

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• How long you've been an REI member

• Why are you a member of REI? How do the co-op’s values impact your decision to be a member?

• How do you feel about REI’s recent decisions and overall trajectory as a Co-op?

• Why did you vote NO in REI’s Board election?

• How does REI’s anti-union behavior sit with you?

• As an REI member, what do you want to see from our new CEO?

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A Recap of REI's recent anti-worker and anti-environment behavior: 

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• Endorsing Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick for the Secretary of the Interior, and only walking back that endorsement after months of intense backlash

• Rejecting two highly qualified environmental leaders from the board election ballot and hand-picking corporate candidates instead

• Employing Morgan Lewis, a notorious anti-union law firm currently working to undo the right to unionize in the United States, to represent REI at the bargaining table with unionized workers 

• Refusing to send any REI decision-maker to bargaining with unionized REI workers

• Laying off over 1,000 workers over the past two years

• Illegally taking away unionized workers’ annual merit raises and bonuses

• Taking respirators away from ski shop workers who need them