can't do cartwheels, no union in the world that I know of has been very successful at organizing small groups of workers at retail sites. What model you think would work?
The fact that retail is difficult is probably the strongest argument against going for Starbucks, but the IWW and IWA are as good as any for the task, and we should not completely give up.
Isn't this pretty aptly demonstrating that the shop model currently being used by the IWW isn't suited to organising in a lot of service industries or casualised work. I mean not really having a go at you guys here, because afterall this is a somewhat wider reachig problem than just the IWW afterall but I think its a little silly to pretend that the model used doesn;t have serius problems.