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Submitted by x344543 on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 3:27am
By Liza Featherstone - The Nation, May 17, 2007
Today Starbucks faced legal and political trouble from its own workers. On the third anniversary of the founding of the IWW Starbucks Union, baristas in Chicago marched into a shop and told the manager they were signing up. (Starbucks workers have chosen to organize without government-mediated elections, through an interesting model called "solidarity unionism.") Meanwhile, baristas in Grand Rapids, Michigan announced that they were filing a legal complaint against the company for violating their organizing rights through unlawful surveillance and other questionable tactics. All over the world -- Austria, England, Spain and Australia, as well as the United States -- Starbucks workers demonstrated in front of stores to protest the company's union-busting practices...Full Article-http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=196455
Submitted by x344543 on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 11:46am
UNITE action against Starbucks
In response to a call from the Starbucks Workers Union (SWU) in the US, UNITE is proud to be participating in an international day of action in solidarity with Starbucks workers on May 17.
UNITE members and supporters will be holding an action outside Starbucks on Swanston Street in the Melbourne CBD. At the store located between Lonsdale and Little Lonsdale streets (across from QV). Please join us between 4pm & 5pm Thursday May 17.
See below for the text of the leaflet UNITE will be handing out on the day. It is based on similar leaflets that will be handed out across the world.
Solidarity with Starbucks workers
Submitted by x344543 on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 11:44am
From coast-to-coast and around the world, SWU activists are responding to the call for solidarity on M17. The latest pledge of action has come in from unionists in Austria! The third anniversary of the IWW campaign at Starbucks is shaping up to be a powerful day indeed.
Workers at the big chains were supposed to keep quiet as these mammoth enterprises devastated our wages and working conditions along with our communities. But no more. We're organizing, we're finding forms that work, and we're doing it around the world.
Original posting: http://www.starbucksunion.org/node/1531
Submitted by x344543 on Wed, 05/09/2007 - 4:08am
Call to Action for a Day in Solidarity with Starbucks Workers
May 17, 2007
Starbucks workers and their allies will take to the streets around the world to demand justice from the world's largest coffee chain for baristas and coffee farmers. Three years ago the corporate bosses at Starbucks were sitting pretty on their multi-million dollar fortunes, confident that anti-worker labor laws would continue to ensure a workforce with zero union membership in the United States. But no matter the constraints, working people will find a way to join hands and struggle for justice until victory. Three years after the founding of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union [StarbucksUnion.org], the organization has members in multiple U.S states successfully using Direct Action to rise out of poverty and articulate an independent voice on the job.
Submitted by x344543 on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 6:57pm
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