Starbucks

Starbucks Global Day of Action - Belfast picket

Boulcolonialboy — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:28:56 +0000

At the start of the picket 3 people had gone inside to leaflet customers and staff. There was a very positive response to the picket however one person was falsely accused of assaulting a Starbuck's member of staff after leafleting staff and customers inside.

Starbucks fires another barista for union activity

GRSBUXUNION — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:10:26 +0000

Grand Rapids, MI (06/06/2008) - Starbucks terminated a barista active in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union today as part of its ongoing effort to combat a growing movement of employees pushing for a living wage and secure work hours. The barista, Cole Dorsey, was fired after two years of service while he was coordinating a union recruitment drive at Starbucks stores in Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids Starbucks Union and Spanish CNT announce global day of action

GRSBUXUNION — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:25:30 +0000

Day to protest recent firing of CNT member in Spain and continuing anti-union discrimination in Grand Rapids

Anarchy, precarity, and the revenge of the IWW: An interview with Starbucks union organiser Daniel Gross

jrivera — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:32:50 +0000

In this wide-ranging interview with IWW organizer Daniel Gross conducted by the UK-based Now or Never!, Gross discusses the innovative worker-controlled organizing model, known as solidarity unionism, that has made gains for Starbucks workers where the bureaucratic union model has failed.

Super Size My Pay - Fast food workers in New Zealand organise for better pay and conditions, 2005-6

Steven. — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:21:37 +0000

This text is taken from the December 2006 issue of the Industrial Workers of the World Australia's newsletter, Direct Action.

Direct action victory on health and safety at Starbucks, 2006

Steven. — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:17:43 +0000

Requests have been routinely made and ignored for the purchase of a stepladder. It is vital for our safety that we have a stepladder available to use for such tasks as changing light bulbs, reaching boxes on high shelves, and cleaning ceiling tiles. Currently, we are forced to balance ourselves on unstable café tables to accomplish tasks in hard to reach places.

Starbucks gets Wobbly - Embattled baristas turn to IWW

Ed — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 02:13:50 +0000

By Mischa Gaus - In These Times, October 4, 2006

When Joe Tessone and his fellow Starbucks baristas walked into a pep rally with management at their store in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood in August, the bosses were ready.

IWW pickets Edinburgh Starbucks

libcom — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:12:04 +0000

IWW Informational Picket in Edinburgh
Just a quick report on our Informational picket at Starbucks in Edinburgh yesterday (Saturday 19th).

We (4 wobs, two supporters) chose our usual target - the High Street branch on the top of the Royal Mile.

The area was teeming with people as it's mid-Festival.

US: Workers score big victory against Starbucks at Labour Board

libcom — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:02:36 +0000

...in the first National Labour Relations Board conflict over unfair labour practices between the world's largest coffee chain and the baristas who work there.

Faced with the prospect of having its widespread union-busting campaign exposed in a public hearing, Starbucks agreed to remedy all of the myriad violations committed against workers who have organised a union.

Lend a hand: Starbucks engaging in religious persecution of IWW barista

Steven. — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:24:55 +0000

Religious Discrimination
Ms. Ayala is a practicing Wiccan and as a religious observance never takes off the necklace. She wore the necklace at Starbucks without interruption for three years until the company started harassing her after she and a group of her co-workers went public as members of the Starbucks Workers Union on November 18, 2005.