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Baristas from the Starbucks Coffee located at the intersection of Nicollet and Franklin Avenues in Minneapolis walked off the floor Wednesday morning to present a petition to management, signed by more than 500 concerned customers and community members, demanding Starbucks hire a security guard to ensure the safety of its patrons and partners. The [...]
Depending on which side you believe, a Starbucks in Minneapolis either was or wasn’t unionized this week. Either way, it may be a preview of a disconcerting future for chain restaurants nationwide. First, the dueling realities: According to the Industrial Workers of the World, better known to our grandparents as the Wobblies, employees of the downtown coffeehouse voted yesterday to be represented by...
The employees at the Franklin Ave./Nicollet store in Minneapolis joined the Starbucks Workers Union, which is affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World Union. Baristas walked off the job Wednesday to petition management for a security guard at the...
Please ask friends to try nyprotest two-message-per-week calendar, also online at http://snipurl.com/nyprotest …… Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:38:25 -0400 From: David Temple Industrial Workers of the World presents A Night of Film, Music & Revolution * “The Take” produced by Naomi Klein Argentinian workers’ struggles turn thhe globalization debate on its head in this winner of the International Documentary...
Headlines: * Ward's Market fires IWW members * Toronto radio station fires staff while bargaining * Quebec workers get union contract at Wal-Mart * Sweatfree Communities press state governors Industrial Worker - Issue #1709, October 2008 | Industrial Workers of the World.
I was recently reading the book The Industrial Workers Of The World - Its First 100 Years by Fred W Thompson and J Bekken and the following passages on how the famous union faced the threats and attacks of the 1930s after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 is particularly relevant to the unfolding global economic crisis. The way in which the IWW faced the implications of the Depression shows how working...
From Industrial Workers of the World, 09/26/2008 Dear friends and comrades, For two weeks in late-April and early-May four members of the Industrial Workers of the World traveled to Haiti to meet with labor leaders and document the plight of the Haitian working class. During our trip we encountered a Haiti still reeling from food riots which had gripped it just weeks prior. We found the workers
For Labor Day, Pete Seeger and Weavers singing Solidarity Forever [h/t Effect Measure.] And Utah Phillips singing There is Power In The Union Both these songs remind us of the incredible spirit of the Wobblies, the Industrial Workers of the World, that radical democratic union in the beginning of the century.
On August 31st, members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were accompanying their fellow worker, Erik Forman, to his first day back on the job at Starbucks in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Erik was recently fired for labor organizing, although that was not the official explanation given by Starbucks. Police from Plymouth, a town outside of Bloomington, prevented Erik's supporters...
Starbucks workers at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota, unionized with the Industrial Workers of the World about a month ago. One worker, Erik Forman, was wrongly fired due to his union organizing. With pressure from the IWW, Starbucks reinstated him and he was set to return to the job today. Riot police at the Mall of America turned back the IWW, but Erik was still able to make it to the...
This weekend sees a historic General Assembly of the IWW (Industrial Workers Of The World)in London. This is the first time in its' 103 year history that the legendary industrial union organization has held a General Meeting outside of North America. Motions include an already hotly debated one to move to a Delegate Convention so that international meetings can be more representative of the international...
The 34th G8 summit took place in Japan July 7th to 9th 2008. Andrew Flood interviewed Diane K. a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the (US) Northeast Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC) who traveled to Japan from New York to take part in the summit protests and counter summit.
Please ask friends to try nyprotest two-message-per-week calendar, also online at http://snipurl.com/nyprotest …… From the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) … Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:25:05 -0700 (PDT) From: J - Ustin Subject: IWW RALLY AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY SUNDAY PROVIDENCE RI Hi friends, please come in solidarity with Alexandra Svoboda and the Providence IWW as we rally [...]
Providence RI, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) march on Jackies Galaxy, a local restaurant chain supplied by HWH/Dragonland in NYC, a supplier notorious for slave labor conditions and a lack of basic labor rights. A few blocks before finishing the march North Providence police brutally tackled two of the marches after they moved to the sidewalk too slowly, both were arrested and one suffered...
