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Submitted by x348328 on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 9:47pm
Headlines:
- Starbucks charged again for firing IWW
- Boycott Molson beer, support Alberta strike
- Unions talk tough at US Social Forum
Featured Articles:
- Chicago Couriers: doing solidarity unionism
- IWW meets Bangladeshi garment workers
- Review: Snapshot of Oaxaca commune
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Submitted by x344543 on Sat, 08/25/2007 - 12:32pm
Disclaimer - The opinions of the author do not necessarily match those of the IWW. This article is reposted in accordance to Fair Use guidelines.
By Nicole Hill, Christian Science Monitor. Posted August 22, 2007.
Weren't employers who lose access to cheap foreign labor supposed to start paying Americans fair wages?
Picacho, Ariz. -- Near this dusty town in southeastern Arizona, Manuel Reyna pitches watermelons into the back of a trailer hitched to a tractor. His father was a migrant farm worker, but growing up, Mr. Reyna never saw himself following his father's footsteps. Now, as an inmate at the Picacho Prison Unit here, Reyna works under the blazing desert sun alongside Mexican farmers the way his father did.
Submitted by x348328 on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 1:12am
Headlines:
- Unions talk tough at US Social Forum
- Canyon Ranch resort takes staff tips
- Save Crichton Campus campaign needs support
- Boycott Molson Beer during strike
Featured Articles:
- Online Picket Line: Bosses counter online campaigns
- Chicago Couriers Union: a lesson for IWW solidarity union organizers
- IWW meets with the Bangladeshi National Garment Workers Federation
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Submitted by x344543 on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 12:45pm
The Industrial Workers of the World is taking on the coffee giant and its much-praised workplace practices
by Moira Herbst - Business Week
Daniel Gross looks a lot like your average Starbucks (SBUX) barista. The 28-year-old is slim and clean-shaven, dressed in tan cargo pants and a T-shirt.
But Gross would rather talk about worker solidarity than lattes and soy milk these days. A volunteer organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Gross claims his involvement with the union got him fired from a New York City Starbucks a year ago. Now he's preparing to go before a judge on Aug. 6 to make the case for himself and other baristas he says have been fired or intimidated for union activity. Seated in the one-room headquarters of the IWW's local in Queens (N.Y.), Gross says it's all part of a broader battle to change the way American companies treat their employees.
Submitted by x344543 on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 12:36pm
Report from Starbucks organizing in Europe
by Diane Krauthamer and Adam Lincoln
Throughout the summer, we have been touring Europe with presentations of film and discussion to draw attention to the efforts of Starbucks workers organizing with the IWW, and to bring to light the vicious union-busting campaign that has been waged by Starbucks Coffee Company. Comrades throughout the continent are expressing immense support with the six fired baristas in New York City and workers struggling in such retail jobs throughout the world. We have reached out to many baristas and have had nothing but positive reactions from fellow workers the IWW, the Confédération Nationale du Travail (CNT-F) in Paris and in Die Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter Union (FAU-IAA) in Berlin. But what's important now is the reaction of Schultz & Co., in light of such events, as their reaction consists of worker intimidation and vicious PR manuevers that had not previously developed on this side of the Atlantic.
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