Submitted on Sun, 09/03/2006 - 4:18am
SEIU Local 707 representing 6500 public sector workers of Sonoma and Mendocino Counties brought the recent issues to the SEIU Local 707 Board of Directors who voted to support by resolution;
1. The organizing of Starbucks workers.
2. Boycott Stabucks until fired organizers are reinstated and IWW is recognized with full legal status for workers.
Hereby recorded August 9, 2006, Santa Rosa California.
From: John Morrison, President SEIU707
Submitted on Tue, 08/29/2006 - 3:28am
Attention:
Jim McDermet
Regional Director
Starbucks Inc.
Re: Reinstatement of Daniel Gross
Dear Jim:
My union the Amalgamated Lithographers of America Local One from New York City, an affiliate of the Graphic Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (GCC-IBT), has been notified of the unionbusting tactics being committed by Starbucks. We are here to inform you we stand 100% behind our Sisters and Brothers who are members of the IWW who are exercising their rights by engaging in concerted protected activities.
You must cease and desist such capricious and arbitrary behavior and activities you are illegally engaged in by violating the rights of workers to exercise their democratic right to organize and bargain collectively:
Submitted on Sun, 08/27/2006 - 3:37am
Compañer@s,
El Comité de Solidaridad Internacional siempre se ha esforzado por ser buen compañero con ustedes ayudándoles en sus luchas. Hoy nos toca pedirles ayuda en esta lucha que sostenemos.
Como muchos sabrán, trabajadores miembros del IWW han estado organizando en las cafeterías Starbucks. En los últimos años han tenido victorias en sus puestos de trabajo y han combatido la represión por parte de la empresa la cual claudicó temiendo manchar su imágen pública.
La intimidación más reciente para disuadir a los trabajadores de afiliarse al IWW ha sido el despido de dos miembors en dos cafeterías de Nueva York. Evan Winterscheidt, con dos años de trabajo en la tienda de la calle 14 y 6a Avenida, y Charles Fostrom en la tienda de la calle 57 y Lexington Ave. Han sido despedidos debido a su afiliación en el IWW.
Submitted on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 2:00am
UNION CO-FOUNDER IN U.S. FIRED AFTER CAFÉ PICKET. STARBUCKS CONTINUES CAMPAIGN AGAINST UNION.
Starbucks continues a campaign of union busting in the United States while the IWW Starbucks Union continues to organize. Coffee giant Starbucks is accused of unlawfully terminating the Union co-founder, Daniel Gross.
New Zealand union Unite who won a landmark fast food agreement earlier this year with Restaurant Brands Ltd, have expressed solidarity with Daniel Gross and three other union barristas terminated in the last few months on what they call “exaggerated charges designed to bust a sister union”. Gross was fired for “intimidation” after a protest outside Starbucks protesting the earlier firings
Submitted on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 12:03am
IWW Bradford took the word to boycott Starbucks for its union-busting activities to the busy Bradford town crowds.
Store managers were taken by surprise. The manager in the new Centenary Square Starbucks jumped up from doing the accounts and told the IWWs to stop leafletting customers. The Fellow Workers only left once they had distributed leaflets to the clients and staff person.
"I didn't think you could cause so much jitter with some A6 [leaflets]," said FW Clive, who reported that the manager said we should call ahead next time we want to leaflet. Sounds like a good idea.
The manager of Starbucks on the second floor of the Waterstones bookstore spread his arms to block the IWWs from climbing the stairs and distribute leaflets. The other Starbucks manager had called ahead to warn him. He said that his clients had the right to relax and enjoy their coffees. The IWWs told him that Starbucks employees had the right to unionize before walking past him. The manager threatened to call the police and the IWWs said, "Go ahead" and distributed leaflets to customers. No police came.