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Submitted on Thu, 07/12/2007 - 10:01pm
Headlines:
- IWW UK fights centralized blood service
- US Supreme Court tightens noose on victims of job discrimination
- Cambodian textile workers feel crunch
- Ontario workers march as factories close
Featured Articles:
- Working without bosses in Argentina
- Training IWW organizers in the US Midwest
- Obituary: Remembering Fellow Worker Mark Dickson
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Submitted on Tue, 06/19/2007 - 1:43am
Headlines:
- Solidarity Never? BC teachers' fed locks out staff
- Mexican unions move toward independence
- Latin American solidarity must be grassroots, not government-led
Featured Articles:
- Four pages of May Day coverage!
- Review: Unions can help elect Democrats, but what for?
- Australian Labor Party no working class saviour
- Tightline Johnson conclusion: The Long Road
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Submitted on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 1:02am
The broadcast will discuss Liza Featherstone's recent Notion post (http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=196455) detailing new legal and political troubles for Starbucks over its treatment of its workers and its anti-union efforts.
In New York, the National Labor Relations Board has accused Starbucks of violating workers' freedom of association in about thirty different ways, including illegally firing, threatening and disciplining workers for supporting the union. Managers forbade workers from talking about the union -- even when off-duty -- or wearing union buttons. The trial against Starbucks is in July. Liza Featherstone, author of , will report from the trial for her blog. Liza will be joined in studio by Pete Montalbano, a Starbucks barista and IWW member who is a veteran of the campaign.
Submitted on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 10:56pm
Headlines:
- Los Angeles Troqueros mobilize for May Day shutdown
- Starbucks violated IWW workers' rights, says NLRB
- McDonald's gives in to Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Featured Articles:
- New column - Workers Power
- Interview: Tom Morello is a One Man Revolution
- IWW in Scotland presses Save Crichton campaign
- Reviews - Centenary Songbook and Little Red Songbook history
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Submitted on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 3:27am
By Liza Featherstone - The Nation, May 17, 2007
Today Starbucks faced legal and political trouble from its own workers. On the third anniversary of the founding of the IWW Starbucks Union, baristas in Chicago marched into a shop and told the manager they were signing up. (Starbucks workers have chosen to organize without government-mediated elections, through an interesting model called "solidarity unionism.") Meanwhile, baristas in Grand Rapids, Michigan announced that they were filing a legal complaint against the company for violating their organizing rights through unlawful surveillance and other questionable tactics. All over the world -- Austria, England, Spain and Australia, as well as the United States -- Starbucks workers demonstrated in front of stores to protest the company's union-busting practices...Full Article-http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=196455
