New Labor Board Complaint Exposes Deep, Lengthy Anti-Union Effort by Starbucks

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.starbucksunion.org/node/1240

IWW Starbucks Union Organizers Daniel Gross, Joe Agins Prevail at Labor Board + More
Submitted by SWU on Tue, 04/03/2007 - 2:35am.

April 3, 2007

New Labor Board Complaint Exposes Deep, Lengthy Anti-Union Effort by Starbucks

LABOR BOARD COMPLAINT ATTACHED

New York, NY- Just over a year after settling
extensive labor charges against it, the Starbucks
Coffee Co. is the target of a new National Labor
Relations Board complaint over the termination of IWW
Starbucks Workers Union (SWU) organizers Daniel Gross and Joe Agins, Jr., and a host of other unlawful anti-union tactics. The government complaint is the result of an independent Labor Board investigation triggered by charges from the SWU .

"This Labor Board complaint reveals that repeat-offender Starbucks is an unrepentant violator of workers' rights," said Daniel Gross, the outspoken former barista whose termination after a false allegation by Starbucks was deemed unlawful by the Labor Board. "Starbucks left the rule of law behind when the union campaign started in 2004 and according to this complaint has yet to return. It's remarkable that our union is growing stronger everyday despite an almost three year campaign of illegal dirty tricks to defeat us."

Highlights of the Labor Board complaint against
Starbucks include allegations that the coffee giant:

-Unlawfully fired two IWW baristas in retaliation for
union activity
-Illegally disciplined workers for discussing the
union during and after work
-Threatened, issued negative performance reviews, and
suspended workers for supporting the union
-And much more


FULL story at article.

http://www.pww.org/article/view/3671/1/169/

Starcuks also uses Across the country last week, upscale coffee company Starbucks felt the heat for contracting with union-buster Cintas Corp. to launder aprons, mats and linens. Cintas has been cited repeatedly for breaking the law by discriminating, dumping untreated wastewater, and violating labor law.

[fasttense]

1. No more starbucks for me. I make better coffee anyway. n/t

[Virginia Dare]

2. Starbucks is the Wal-Mart of the coffee industry..

they use similarly aggressive business tactics.