NYC Starbucks Workers Union has rally inside Starbucks on May Day 2009

Members of the NYC Starbucks Workers Union and the Industrial Workers of the World break off from the "Break the Chains" May Day feeder march to protest and rally inside two different Starbucks locations in Union Square (Union Square East and 17th & Broadway). The Break the Chains feeder march was organized by Chinese Staff & Workers Association and The National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS) and went from Chinatown to Union Square. At Union Square the Break the Chains feeder march joined up with the larger march and rally organized by the May 1st Coalition, while the SWU and IWW split off to protest Starbucks' ongoing and illegal union busting practices. This video features the rally inside the 17th & Broadway Starbucks location. SWU members give lollipops to their fellow workers and wish them a happy May Day.

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• Starbucks
• May Day
• Starbucks Workers Union
• SWU
• IWW
• Solidarity
• Anti-Starbucks
• activism
• anarchism
• workers rights

[hal9000wtf]

union workers are hard workers. and if you don't like your job that's all the more reason to stay and organize. oitherwise you're hopping from shit job to shit job and not changing a damn thing.

[v2754]

WOW!!! Where are you from? What world do you live in? Scratch that what century? The "owning class" come on now don't be ridiculous. There is no necessity to organize, if you don't like the way you are treated by an employer simply QUIT. Businesses provide jobs for workers. We need businesses in order to have an income. What do businesses want but people that work instead of cry about the fact that they have to work. You have a huge chip on your shoulder. I feel really sorry for you.

[hal9000wtf]

what? organizing has always come out of necessity. and the owning class is nothing but leeches and parasites. everything they have is stolen from the working class. the bosses are truly the ones who want "something for nothing."

[v2754]

That is our underlying difference because I reject your IWW preamble. The working class and employing class have a lot in common as they should in general. But people like you want something for nothing. Why don't you just call it a day and simply go on welfare.

[v2754]

WOW, you are an idiot. I don't care what the IWW is. No one has to organize out of necessity, let me spell it out for you...IF YOU DON"T LIKE YOUR JOB QUIT AND FIND A BETTER ONE. Last I checked Starbuck's pays all of their employees. But if idiots like you keep "organizing" you won't have to worry about it because they will go out of business and then what will you do? Please go back to school and learn that people are not "payed" they are paid!

[hal9000wtf]

wow. you really don't pay attention do you? the IWW is all volunteer and run by the rank and file workers themselves. no one is being payed to organize, we organize out of necessity, because as the IWW preamble states, "the working class and the employing class have nothing in common."

[v2754]

Yes it is MUCH BETTER!

If that is the way you feel you need to move to China. Unions served a purpose in the 1920's they have not been relevant since then. All they do is destroy businesses and suck their members dry. Must be nice to get money for doing absolutely NOTHING for your members other than cripple the companies that hire them. Don't be brainwashed!

[v2754]

The IWW isn't going to overthrow anyone. They simply aren't that smart. You truly show your ignorance because it is my kind that supports this country and your kind that tears it down.

[jackriter]

Don't worry, the IWW isn't planning to just leech off of the bourgeoisie, the IWW is going to overthrow your kind.

[jandean61]

"starbucks is where you work as a teenager or as a side job not as your main source of income same goes for walmart or mcdonalds or as a cashier or stocker at any grocery store" M.C -2009