Submitted by x344543 on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 10:19pm
Make January 21, 2008, the first year Starbucks pays baristas the same holiday premium on Martin Luther King Day that it pays for several other federal holidays to baristas who work.
The Union's Call
December 14, 2007- The IWW Starbucks Workers Union (SWU) called today for the world’s largest coffee chain to honor slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by paying workers a holiday premium on the federal holiday named for him. While Starbucks claims a commitment to racial diversity and pays a holiday premium on federal holidays including the Fourth of July and New Year’s Day, baristas receive no added compensation for working through the MLK Day holiday...CONTINUE READING
Submitted by x344543 on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 10:16pm
Dear Starbucks Union Activists,
Please join the IWW Starbucks Workers Union call for the coffee giant to honor Martin Luther King Day in 2008 by paying the same holiday premium that it pays for several other federal holidays to baristas who work.
While Starbucks claims a commitment to racial diversity and pays a holiday premium on federal holidays including the Fourth of July and New Year's Day, baristas receive no added compensation for working through the MLK Day holiday.
-Urge Starbucks to pay the holiday premium on January 21st by participating in the SWU E-Mail Action at http://www.starbucksunion.org/node/1919
-For more action ideas and to learn more about the SWU's MLK Day Initiative log on to http://www.starbucksunion.org/node/1914
Submitted by x344543 on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 10:11pm
For Immediate Release:
IWW Starbucks Workers Union
Contact: starbucksunion@yahoo.com
December 14, 2007
Coffee Giant Must Make Real Commitment to Diversity
New York, NY- The IWW Starbucks Workers Union (SWU) called today for the world’s largest coffee chain to honor slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by paying workers a holiday premium on the federal holiday named for him. While Starbucks claims a commitment to racial diversity and pays a holiday premium on federal holidays including the Fourth of July and New Year’s Day, baristas receive no added compensation for working through the MLK Day holiday.
“Dr. King is a hero to many baristas and it’s only right that Starbucks- with its claimed commitment to diversity- treat his holiday with respect,” said Liberte Locke, a member of the SWU. “King stood up courageously for economic justice and no doubt would smile upon low-wage fast food workers taking home much needed extra money at the end of the day.”
Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 12/03/2007 - 1:22pm
The 2008 "Solidarity Forever" labor history calendar published by the Industrial Workers of the World since 1985 is available.
Images span the period from the 1886 Haymarket Demonstration, where workers protesting police brutality against striking workers were attacked by police, to an August 2007 march in North Providence, Rhode Island, in solidarity with IWW-organized foodstuffs workers, which ended with another brutal police attack which sent one Wobbly to the hospital with a severed artery. Other images include a 1920s strike by black and white Alabama coal miners, child labor from India, a Southern California strike by immigrant framers forced to take buses to the picket lines after immigration authorities started attacking their strike caravans, a sit-down strike by Philadelphia streetcar workers, a massive Stockholm (Sweden) rally in solidarity with Sacco and Vanzetti, Detroit teachers picketing against demands for deep concessions, the Paterson strike, immigrant rights protests and more. Hundreds of dates commemorate events in world labor history.
Submitted by x348328 on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 10:02pm
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Featured Articles:
- Armed men break strikes in Philippines
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- Reviews: Ben Fletcher, Atom Spies, Horizontalism, IWW history books in 2007
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