Submitted on Fri, 04/27/2007 - 11:47am
Contact: Billy Randel Industrial Workers of the World NYC General Membership Branch phone: (646) 645-6284 email: [email protected]
With help from the IWW, New Jersey truckers open first driver education and organizing center in nation.
Elizabeth, NJ, April 27, 2007 - Truck drivers from Ports Elizabeth and Newark, in conjunction with the Industrial Workers of the World union,are set to open a new drivers' education and organizing center in Elizabeth on May 1, 2007, the first of its kind in the nation.
The center is being organized to fight for and enforce the rights of rail and port truckers, and is being named in commemoration of Teamster organizer José Gilberto Soto. Soto was assassinated in El Salvador while organizing port truckers there in 2004.
Submitted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 7:03pm
Con:
- Sindicalistas de Starbucks Daniel Gross y Joe Agins salen existosos en Junta Laboral (NLRB)
- Primero de Mayo: De 1886 al 2006 los medios dan soluciones
- Argentina: Paro general por la muerte de un profesor a las manos de la policia
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Submitted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 6:57pm
Featuring:
- Sindicalistas de Starbucks Daniel Gross y Joe Agins salen existosos en Junta Laboral (NLRB)
- Primero de Mayo: De 1886 al 2006 los medios dan soluciones
- Argentina: Paro general por la muerte de un profesor a las manos de la policia
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Submitted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 3:11pm
Does Starbucks Need a Union?
Starbucks is scared to debate the IWW Starbucks Workers Union because it doesn't want to talk about the gains we've made organizing against poverty wages and insecure work hours. So a Starbucks apologist stood in for the company.
If you're a Starbucks barista you're a "partner," even though Starbucks pays a poverty wage and maintains a 100% part-time cafe workforce. Starbucks boasts that it provides health insurance for part time workers even though it insures a lower percentage of its workforce than Wal-Mart.
Submitted on Tue, 04/24/2007 - 1:40pm
With the decertification of the last seven unionized Starbucks outlets in Vancouver... there is now only one unionized Starbucks in the World. It's in Regina and the employees there are represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
You'd think that might take the steam out of - other drives to unionize Starbucks outlets. But not so - for Daniel Gross. He's not backing away from his own bid - although he is taking a slightly different tact. Three years ago while he was working as a "barista" at a Starbucks in New York City, he organized the Starbucks Workers' Union and affiliated the group with the International Workers of the World.
Daniel Gross was fired last July in disputed circumstances. And late last month, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board charged Starbucks with 30 violations of the law in an alleged attempt to ward off union activity at four Manhattan outlets. Starbucks denies the charges.
Daniel Gross is still an organizer with the Starbucks Workers' Union and he was in New York City.
