IWW Baristas Give Starbucks a "Big Review"

On January 8, 2009, baristas gathered at the Franklin and Nicollet Starbucks in Minneapolis, MN to give Starbucks a "Big Review." Normally at Starbucks, baristas wait nervously for their six-month Performance Reviews, which determine whether they qualify for a paltry 20-30 cent raise. As the six-month anniversary of the Starbucks Workers Union in Minnesota approached, the IWW baristas decided it was time to hold management to OUR standards...

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• IWW
• Starbucks Workers Union
• Starbuck
• Unions

[kingofcrunk1010]

@lostrobit

they're protesting the treatment of the coffee bean farmers, you twit

[Daniel0112358]

I support these guys and IWW (and much of its anarcho-syndicalist/socialist outlook!). It is kinda ironic that this IWW movement is happening at Starbucks, the modern franchise/cookie cutter bourgeois icon (that i enjoy myself, admittedly).

great to see iww spread in starbucks, would be cool to see it throughout fast food tho! to counteract both mainstream union sellout of workers' interests and general decline of unionism in us. also like what i see in uncut & 'los indignados' of spain

[Daniel0112358]

@Daniel0112358

Do you think that the supposedly $80,000 a year person is really earning that? By doing what exactly? he follows a franchise playbook and just incentavizes employees to be more productive. and while some ppl there are probably middle class kids, so what? many are probably working to afford college with tuition going up at a rapid pace for the diploma you need for a chance at the middle class job. and others are working people, full time w/ kids. it's bs to say they are overpriv.

[Daniel0112358]

@lostrobit

The customers (me included sometimes) are buying 2-5$ luxury items. I agree that a larger share of this value produced by workers should go to workers. The "innovation/management" contribution of execs, local management, ad ppl etc. is of course of high marginal utility and vital to profitability, but it's 1st the people getting fucked in the fields in latin america and 2nd the lowly US workers who make the product. and if u want a free market, labor show benefit from scale as cap.

[bapyou]

You guys rock! Wobblies forever!

Remember Joe Hill! Remember Wesley Everest!

Don't mourn, organize! There's power in a union!

[bapyou]

@lostrobit <--- ex-Ronald Reagan lackey.

[00maharum00ma]

Solidarity, Fellow Workers!!!

[burntflybog]

"slipping it under the door." brilliant ladies and gentlemen.

[sleestackgod]

Here's a news flash lostrobit ....a person's labor is worth something, no matter what that labor constitutes. $7.50 an hour is a joke. Free market reality...if you can't pay your workforce a fair wage, maybe you shouldn't be in business.

[lostrobit]

Only a bunch of middle class kids think they deserve more for working a part time job making coffee. you guys are disgusting to think you deserve more than you already get is ridiculous. When are you going to make a video about the customers and their inability to tip you guys better?