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Submitted by x344543 on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 1:35pm
Andrew Serwer
Managing Editor
Fortune Magazine
1 Time Warner Center
New York, NY 10019
January 28, 2008
Dear Mr. Serwer,
I take serious issue with the erroneous information regarding
Starbucks in Fortune Magazine's 2008 '100 Best Companies to Work For'.
I am especially concerned about the reliability of Fortune given that
the IWW Starbucks Workers Union wrote you an open letter
before the 2007 '100 Best Companies to Work For' feature that pointed
out the very same misinformation which you proceeded to include once
again in the 2008 list.
The 2008 'Best Companies to Work For' list claims that the most
common hourly job at Starbucks is a mysterious position called
"Coordinator III" which takes in $37,390 per year. Once again, the most
common hourly job at Starbucks, by far, is a position called "Barista"
which likely takes in approximately $12,000 per year on average. The
precise average pay for baristas is not known since Starbucks refuses
to make that information public.
Submitted by x344543 on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 3:17pm
By KRIS MAHER, Wall Street Journal - January 9, 2008
A series of emails by Starbucks Corp. managers sheds light on the
company's efforts to thwart union organizing among its baristas.
The emails, which are part of a labor-dispute proceeding in New York
and were reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, open a rare window onto
the company's labor relations practices. Labor experts not involved
with the case said the activity is not illegal. But the emails could
prove embarrassing because they show managers using various methods to
identify pro-union employees.
Submitted by x344543 on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 3:01pm
Starbucks' Communique Followed by the Statement of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union
Thank you for contacting Starbucks Coffee Company. We appreciate your writing to us with your concerns about holiday pay for our partners (employees) working on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Submitted by x344543 on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 2:50pm
By John J. Cronan Jr - originally published on ZNet, December 26, 2007
Submitted by x348328 on Fri, 12/28/2007 - 9:47pm
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