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Starbucks Workers organizing at 17th and Broadway

On Saturday July 29th Starbucks workers, members of the NYC and NJ IWW branches as well as several coalition members from Make The Road By Walking, CODA and NMASS walked the picket in support fired workers Joe Agins Jr., Charles Fostrom, and Evan Winterscheidt.  Starbucks unlawfully fired members of the union as a form of intimidation to frighten workers from organizing.   Our union is outraged by the latest effort by the company to silence us.  Regardless of workers being fired and continual threats of firings, we refuse to be intimidated and continue to stand up for better conditions on and off the job. 

On the same Saturday of our picket, an organizing committee at 17th and Broadway Union Square West went public and several members started wearing union pins.  Workers at 17th and Broadway have experienced some of the toughest intimidation and harassment as a result of being across the park from Union Square East where union members have been public for 1/2 a year.   Union members at 17th and Broadway along with thier brothers and sisters at 14th and 4th ave demand consistent schedules, higher wages for all Union Square Starbucks workers, fair raises and an immediate investigation into Mr. Gomez's behavior and an end to management's disrespect, harassment and prejudice against all 17th and Broadway Starbucks union members.

Our Union is growing and regardless of the firings, regardless of the intimidation, regardless of the lies, harassment and all the bullshit they throw at us, WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!


In the latest part of unlawful firings Starbucks has once again chosen to target Daniel Gross. 

If you have not already done so please TAKE ACTION:

  • 1) Participate in the e-mail action campaign at [http://starbucksunion.org/node/1005] and encourage others to participate as well
  • 2) Call Regional Director Jim McDermet at 917-207-8660 to demand that Daniel Gross not be fired and that fired workers Joe Agins Jr., Charles Fostrom, and Evan Winterscheidt be rehired immediately.
  • 3) Take other creative actions