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Submitted on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 1:12am
Headlines:
- Unions talk tough at US Social Forum
- Canyon Ranch resort takes staff tips
- Save Crichton Campus campaign needs support
- Boycott Molson Beer during strike
Featured Articles:
- Online Picket Line: Bosses counter online campaigns
- Chicago Couriers Union: a lesson for IWW solidarity union organizers
- IWW meets with the Bangladeshi National Garment Workers Federation
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Submitted on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 12:45pm
The Industrial Workers of the World is taking on the coffee giant and its much-praised workplace practices
by Moira Herbst - Business Week
Daniel Gross looks a lot like your average Starbucks (SBUX) barista. The 28-year-old is slim and clean-shaven, dressed in tan cargo pants and a T-shirt.
But Gross would rather talk about worker solidarity than lattes and soy milk these days. A volunteer organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Gross claims his involvement with the union got him fired from a New York City Starbucks a year ago. Now he's preparing to go before a judge on Aug. 6 to make the case for himself and other baristas he says have been fired or intimidated for union activity. Seated in the one-room headquarters of the IWW's local in Queens (N.Y.), Gross says it's all part of a broader battle to change the way American companies treat their employees.
Submitted on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 12:36pm
Report from Starbucks organizing in Europe
by Diane Krauthamer and Adam Lincoln
Throughout the summer, we have been touring Europe with presentations of film and discussion to draw attention to the efforts of Starbucks workers organizing with the IWW, and to bring to light the vicious union-busting campaign that has been waged by Starbucks Coffee Company. Comrades throughout the continent are expressing immense support with the six fired baristas in New York City and workers struggling in such retail jobs throughout the world. We have reached out to many baristas and have had nothing but positive reactions from fellow workers the IWW, the Confédération Nationale du Travail (CNT-F) in Paris and in Die Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter Union (FAU-IAA) in Berlin. But what's important now is the reaction of Schultz & Co., in light of such events, as their reaction consists of worker intimidation and vicious PR manuevers that had not previously developed on this side of the Atlantic.
Submitted on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 3:56am
Con:
- Los Angeles: 1 de mayo, 2007 la lucha sigue
- El Sindicato de Trabajadores de Starbucks (IWW) sigue creciendo
- Trabajando sin patrón: reflexiones acerca del movimiento de empresas recuperadas
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Submitted on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 3:37am
Featuring:
- Los Angeles: 1 de mayo, 2007 la lucha sigue
- El Sindicato de Trabajadores de Starbucks (IWW) sigue creciendo
- Trabajando sin patrón: reflexiones acerca del movimiento de empresas recuperadas
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