Submitted by x344543 on Wed, 11/29/2006 - 2:18pm
IWW members in Chicago, and a friend from Teamsters Local 705, leafleted half-a-dozen Starbucks locations in downtown Chicago on Friday, 24 November as part of the international day of solidarity with Starbucks Workers Union. We distributed about 900 leaflets in a couple of hours and made contact with a number of baristas. Hopefully these contacts will get in touch with our SWU organizing committee and the start we've made at the Logan Square store will expand to other locations. Solidarity Forever!
Submitted by x344543 on Fri, 09/15/2006 - 4:15pm
IWW Barista Joe Tessone and University of Illinois Professor Bob Bruno comment on the expansion of the Starbucks Workers Union to Chicago. Watch online at
http://www.firstbusinessx.com/features/0609/0912feature.html.
Submitted by x344543 on Tue, 09/05/2006 - 4:08am
By Ron Grossman - Chicago Tribune, September 4, 2006.
In the city of its birth, and 101 years later, the Industrial Workers of the World is still trying to strike a blow for the working class.
Just ahead of Labor Day, baristas at the Starbucks in Logan Square told management that they wanted to be represented by the IWW. A veteran of battles that once made the union movement a major force in American life, the IWW has been largely moribund recently.
Starbucks' management was ready for the faceoff, which occurred during a periodic meeting of employees and managers at the giant coffee merchant's store at 2759 W. Logan Blvd., some workers reported. Corporate honchos would not accept employee demands and handed out copies of the preamble to the IWW's constitution in an effort to discredit the union.
Submitted by x344543 on Thu, 08/31/2006 - 1:54am
First Group of Baristas Outside of New York City Joins the IWW Starbucks Workers Union
Chicago, IL- Baristas at Chicago’s Logan Square Starbucks store announced last night their membership in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union (www.starbucksunion.org), becoming the first U.S. workers outside of New York City to declare union membership at the world's largest coffee chain.
Workers served Starbucks management at the café, located on 2759 W Logan Blvd., with a declaration of union membership and a set of demands including a living wage, guaranteed work hours, reinstatement of IWW baristas fired for organizing activity, and respect for an independent voice on the job through union membership.
Submitted by x344543 on Wed, 08/30/2006 - 2:08pm
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO -- A union claiming to represent Starbucks Corp. workers at a handful of coffeehouses said Wednesday that employees of a Chicago store have declared their membership, becoming the first outside New York City to do so.
The baristas at the Logan Square Starbucks store joined the IWW Starbucks Workers Union Tuesday night, the union said. They issued a set of demands that included a living wage, guaranteed work hours and the reinstatement of IWW baristas fired for organizing activity.
Starbucks, the world's largest specialty coffee maker, often is lauded for offering generous benefits that include health insurance for part-time workers. But the two-year-old union, which has members at seven Starbucks locations, contends that workers face low wages and barriers to health care and other benefits.
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