E-Mail Action: Tell Starbucks We're Not Backing Down on Martin Luther King Day!
Submitted on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 5:11pm
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Subject: E-Mail Action: Tell Starbucks We're Not Backing Down on Martin Luther King Day!
Your Personal Statement
Howard Schultz
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Starbucks Corporation
[email protected]
Dear Mr. Schultz,
I urge you in 2009 to stop treating Martin Luther King Day like a second-class holiday. Last year after grassroots actions from the IWW Starbucks Workers Union, your company was forced to admit publicly that Starbucks does not pay the same time-and-a-half holiday premium on Dr. King's federal holiday that it pays on five other holidays.
After you declined to honor Dr. King's day in 2008, the Starbucks Workers Union refused to back down and pledged to fight on toward 2009 in the great tradition of the civil rights movement.
Many baristas, like many people around the world, are deeply inspired by Dr. King's message and example. Yet while Starbucks claims to embrace diversity and respect Dr. King, you continue to treat Martin Luther King Day as inferior to other federal holidays.
I join the SWU's call for Starbucks to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the baristas who work on the federal holiday commemorating his birthday by paying the time and a half holiday premium you already pay on several other federal holidays. I expect your prompt attention to this matter.
Your Name
Your Organization
123 Your St.
Yousville, YO 12345 United States
Phone: (123)456-7890
Fax: (123)456-7890x123
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: E-Mail Action: Tell Starbucks We're Not Backing Down on Martin Luther King Day!
Your Personal Statement
Howard Schultz
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Starbucks Corporation
[email protected]
Dear Mr. Schultz,
I urge you in 2009 to stop treating Martin Luther King Day like a second-class holiday. Last year after grassroots actions from the IWW Starbucks Workers Union, your company was forced to admit publicly that Starbucks does not pay the same time-and-a-half holiday premium on Dr. King's federal holiday that it pays on five other holidays.
After you declined to honor Dr. King's day in 2008, the Starbucks Workers Union refused to back down and pledged to fight on toward 2009 in the great tradition of the civil rights movement.
Many baristas, like many people around the world, are deeply inspired by Dr. King's message and example. Yet while Starbucks claims to embrace diversity and respect Dr. King, you continue to treat Martin Luther King Day as inferior to other federal holidays.
I join the SWU's call for Starbucks to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the baristas who work on the federal holiday commemorating his birthday by paying the time and a half holiday premium you already pay on several other federal holidays. I expect your prompt attention to this matter.
Your Name
Your Organization
123 Your St.
Yousville, YO 12345 United States
Phone: (123)456-7890
Fax: (123)456-7890x123