Re: Starbucks and the I.W.W….
On Sep 5, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Mike Ballard wrote:
Starbucks workers add shot of unionizingHistoric local group works
with baristasBy 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
by Starbucks for union activities.
Doug