UK IWW - Baristas United Bulletin
Submitted on Tue, 01/30/2007 - 5:19am
GET ORGANISED!
You’ll make a better life with the union than you ever could without one.
Baristas United is part of the Shop Workers Industrial Union of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The IWW union is controlled directly by its members and fights for better conditions for working people.
It is a fact that today, most coffee shop workers are unorganised. Wages and conditions may vary from company to company and from shop to shop, but whatever the set up, baristas are all subject to the whims of company strategies that seek to reap maximum profits from the labour of coffee shop workers, while generally paying poor wages to the baristas who make those profits possible.
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Please note - the BU address has now changed to IWW, Unit 107, 40 Halford Street, Leicester, LE1 1TQ.