On Sep 5, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Mike Ballard wrote:
> Starbucks workers add shot of unionizingHistoric local group works
> with baristas
>
> By Ron Grossman
> Chicago Tribune staff reporter
> Published September 4, 2006
>
> In the city of its birth, and 101 years later, the Industrial
> Workers of the World is still trying to strike a blow for the
> working class.
>
> Just ahead of Labor Day, baristas at the Starbucks in Logan Square
> told management that they wanted to be represented by the IWW. A
> veteran of battles that once made the union movement a major force
> in American life, the IWW has been largely moribund recently.
>
One of the members of our fair trade coffee-tasting panel <http:// www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=112782> was an IWWer fired by Starbucks for union activities.
Doug