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Protest in support of Starbucks workers, 18 August

No Sweat | 06.08.2007 13:38 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | Sheffield

Starbucks in an anti-union company that exploits its coffee shop workers as well as the people who grow the coffee beans it uses. That's why on Saturday 18 August, No Sweat and the Industrial Workers of the World union will be holding a national day of action to expose Starbucks' abuses and support Starbucks workers fight to get organised.

What you can do

1. Organise a protest at a Starbucks near where you live or work on 18 August. You can download a leaflet about Starbucks to copy and use on the protest
 http://www.nosweat.org.uk/node/549
We are asking activists to spend about an hour leafleting outside a store. In London, most local protests will take place from 11am to 12 noon and then a central London protest will start at 2.00. To let us know what you're organising, or to find out about protests already being organised, please get in touch.

2. Or why not set up a meeting to discuss Starbucks' record? We can mail you/your group a copy of a film called Coffee Sirens made by pro-union activists in New York (35 minutes). And we can provide speakers.

For more details email  chrisjmarks@hotmail.com or ring 07904 43 959

For lots more information and campaigning materials, see
 http://www.nosweat.org.uk/node/549
 http://www.iww.org.uk

No Sweat
- e-mail: admin@nosweat.org.uk
- Homepage: http://www.nosweat.org.uk/node/549

Comments

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Mugs

07.08.2007 21:49

Why don't they just stop being mugs and just not work for the fuckers if they're that sick of it.

2 Sugars, No Milk


I'd rather be a mug than a scab

08.08.2007 08:40

What, and get one of the jobs with decent pay and conditions that're so easy to find elsewhere? And what do you suggest the coffee growers do?

No milk but no reactionary bullshit either


good to see its growing

11.08.2007 13:50

glad to see the campaign growing, hope you appreciate the work sheffield IWW has been doing here on this very issue so far.

I think its highly likely that sheffield wobs behind the previous pickets have other political commitments on that date beleive it or not, but we will do out best to help and send who we can.

Sheffield Wobbly
- Homepage: http://IWW.org.uk


good to see its growing

11.08.2007 14:21

glad to see the campaign growing, hope you appreciate the work sheffield IWW has been doing here on this very issue so far.

I think its highly likely that sheffield wobs behind the previous pickets have other political commitments on that date beleive it or not, but we will do out best to help and send who we can, and of course work together with you on this in future.

Sheffield Wobbly
- Homepage: http://IWW.org.uk


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