<div>On Sep 5, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Mike Ballard wrote:<BR><BR>> Starbucks workers add shot of unionizingHistoric local group works <BR>> with baristas<BR>><BR>> By Ron Grossman<BR>> Chicago Tribune staff reporter<BR>> Published September 4, 2006<BR>><BR>> In the city of its birth, and 101 years later, the Industrial <BR>> Workers of the World is still trying to strike a blow for the <BR>> working class.<BR>><BR>> Just ahead of Labor Day, baristas at the Starbucks in Logan Square <BR>> told management that they wanted to be represented by the IWW. A <BR>> veteran of battles that once made the union movement a major force <BR>> in American life, the IWW has been largely moribund recently.<BR>><BR><BR>One of the members of our fair trade coffee-tasting panel <http:// <BR>www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=112782> was an IWWer fired <BR>by Starbucks for union
activities.<BR><BR>Doug<BR><BR>*********************</div> <div>That's interesting. Back in the 90s, I met up with some fellow workers in Hamburg in the FAUD <A href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAUD ">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAUD </A> </div> <div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>There's more info on the organizing struggle at Starbucks here:</div> <div> </div> <div><A href="http://www.iww.org/">http://www.iww.org/</A></div> <div> </div> <div>Solidarity can happen,</div> <div>Mike B)</div><BR><BR>Read "Penguins in
Bondage":<br>http://happystiletto.blogspot.com/<p> 
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