Submitted on Tue, 08/15/2006 - 12:01pm
Durch den Mailverteiler der IWW-Starbucks-Workers-Union mussten wir vor einigen Tagen erfahren, dass einem Mitbegründer der Gewerkschaft, Daniel Gross, nach einer schmierigen internen Untersuchung gekündigt wurde. Die Wobblies rufen deshalb zu internationalen Aktionen gegen Starbucks auf.
Die Kündigung wurde am Sonntag ausgesprochen, nachdem das Unternehmen eine sogenannte "interne Untersuchung" gegen Daniel Gross angestrengt hatte. Hintergrund ist der verstärkte Versuch des Starbucks-Managements, die GewerkschafterInnen der Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in ihren Läden auszuschalten. So wurden in den letzten Wochen mehrere IWW-Mitglieder gefeuert, was die IWW mit Blockadeaktionen und Proteststreiks in mehreren New Yorker starbucks-Filialen beantwortete. Bei einer dieser Kundgebungen hatte Daniel Gross sich mit den gekündigten solidarisiert, was ihm nun zum Verhängnis werden soll, wenn es nach den Starbucks-Bossen geht.
Submitted on Sun, 08/13/2006 - 6:11pm
Disclaimer - The following article is reposted here because it is an issue with some relevance to the IWW. The views of the author do not necessarily agree with those of the IWW and vice versa.
New America Media, News Analysis, David Bacon, Aug 09, 2006
Editor's Note: Business interests in Mexico are taking the election of Felipe Calderon as a green light to crack down on striking mine workers. David Bacon is an associate editor at New America Media and author of "The Children of NAFTA" (University of California Press, 2004).
Submitted on Sun, 08/13/2006 - 11:54am
By Riya Bhattacharjee - Berkeley Daily Planet, August 11, 2006
Shattuck Cinema workers and union representatives met with management on Wednesday to negotiate pay raises, and other basic demands including uniforms and grievance procedures.
Landmark Cinemas, the parent company of Shattuck Cinemas, and the owner of 58 other theaters all over the United States, had frozen pay increases for workers for over a year, citing problems with funds.
In an e-mail to union representatives on Aug. 4, Landmark announced that the pay increase freeze was being removed and that they were readjusting wages to be competitive in the market. Harjit Gill of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the union for Shattuck Cinema workers, said that this was an effort to keep the workers from unionizing.
Submitted on Sun, 08/13/2006 - 12:12am
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The Starbucks "investigation" of IWW member Daniel Gross concluded today with his termination after more than three years of organizing at the company.
Daniel's expression of solidarity at a union picket line with co-worker and fellow union member, Evan Winterscheidt, was deemed threatening by Starbucks despite multiple eyewitnesses who confirm that Daniel merely asserted to District Manager Allison Marx that Evan should not be fired. With the termination of IWW members Daniel Gross, Evan Winterscheidt, Joe Agins Jr., and Charles Fostrom in less than a year, Starbucks has demonstrated conclusively its intense hostility to the right of workers to join a union.
Submitted on Thu, 08/10/2006 - 11:33pm
By Melissa Meinzer - Pittsburgh City Paper, August 10, 2006.
East End Food Co-op workers and management have compromised: They will now accept federal supervision of an election to decide whether employees will unionize.
The Co-op’s 50 non-management employees will vote in a National Labor Relations Board-stipulated election on Aug. 30 on whether to adopt the (Industrial) Workers of the World as their union. Management and workers reached agreement on Aug. 7, pending final approval from the NLRB regional director, expected as soon as Aug. 8.
