> 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
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That's interesting. Back in the 90s, I met up with some fellow workers in Hamburg in the FAUD http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAUD
One of them was really hot to get this fair trade thing off the ground and so, I told him, I'd lend a hand back in the U.S. and so, there I was one night at an IWW function in the Bay Area (La Pen~a), handing out a Fair Trade leaflet of my own making to those leaving the event. Well received by all takers, it was.
There's more info on the organizing struggle at Starbucks here:
Solidarity can happen,
Mike B)
Read "Penguins in Bondage": http://happystiletto.blogspot.com/
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