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Starbucks terminated a barista active in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union today as part of its ongoing effort to combat a growing movement of employees pushing for a living wage and secure work hours. The barista, Cole Dorsey, was fired after two years of service while he was coordinating a union recruitment drive at Starbucks stores in Grand Rapids. Starbucks' pretext for the illegal anti-union firing was that Dorsey was guilty of some months-old attendance infractions.

Appears to be a violation of the US National Labor Relations Act, but who even enforces that anymore?
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28 responses // Starbucks fires another barista for union activity

  • I have boycotted Starbucks for a number of months now. I can say that the war mongering employee cheating non-recycling corporate sewer coffee dispensing chain has lost more than $500.00 of income from me alone, plus friends who have done the same.

    Say goodbye to Starbucks.
    VoyagerFilms
  • I too boycott Walmart because of their treatment of employees, disregard for the environment and general distrust of large corporations. I'd been distrustful of the Starbucks corporation but hadn't found a good reason not to be tempted by a frappuccino...until now!
    ButterUpButtercup
  • Boycott those fu(&s! Their coffee is overpriced anyways.
    BretByron
  • Yes, and I have boycotted Walfart since it came to California. They've never earned my money - but once some years ago.

    Boycott!!! Take back our America and our American values and way of life.

    Walfart forces mom and pop stores out of business by providing cheap quality with built-in designed obsolescence made in China garbage putting out of business and out of work Americans.
    VoyagerFilms
  • man, i don't know exactly what happened there, but i worked for starbucks from 00 to 03 and it was a really good company to work for.

    i made decent money, not a living wage, but who really pays a living wage these days anyway?!? i had good health, vision, and dental insurance, and made plenty of money to split an apartment with a friend, pay my bills, and have money left over.

    i made some of the best friends while working there. most were co-workers, some were customers. i promoted to shift supervisor, got a substantial raise, and eventually left for an opportunity as a director.

    nobody's perfect. i'm willing to bet these cases are mainly due to some isolated events, or crappy store managers or district managers who should never have been hired in the first place.

    i'm not brainwashed, either. a close friend of mine was fired for our store receiving a bad 'snapshot.' he apparently was singled out in the snapshot report. so, for one bad snapshot, (he was talking to another partner) he got fired. not too cool, i'd say.
    edbr
  • I boycott neither Wal-Mart or Starbucks and they do not treat their employees bad. People are just overly sensitive.

    I know a few people that worked at Wal-Mart many years and if it were that they wouldn't be there. They are not stupid people. I know people that work at Starbucks and the only thing they ever complained about were the people they worked with not the company.

    So this idea that they are bad because they don't allow unions is laughable.

    So many more important things to whine about than this and since they give insurance to those that even are part time is something that most places do not do.
    J_Jammer
  • http://current.com/items/88847154_agua_sobre_puente
    Coffee anyone?

    you think that the barristas are getting fucked over. Imagine the coffee growers getting a living wage and health care benefit, shit even a 401k why not?
    LucienRafagas
  • i dont like coffee so i will join the boycott
    fuckbush
  • http://current.com/items/89006244_water_over_the_bridge...
    Yeah we need to thank our lucky stars if we have the luxury of paying $3.50 for a cup of coffee with some silly whip cream and cinnamon dust.

    It is your $3.50, your vote
    LucienRafagas
  • I love walmart and I go to Dunkin Donuts instead, cheap good (real) coffee and donuts.
    current_nando
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  • I don't like Dunkin Donuts. Shipley's Please.

    And Why do people care that someone goes to Starbucks? It must be this need to bring big companines down. Sad.
    J_Jammer
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  • Fuck Starbucks, Nike, Apple, and Walmart. I'm probably the poorest person you'll meet but you won't see me resorting to these places of 'convenience'.
    Betico
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  • I try to go to our local Maine Coffee Roasters and I try to buy coffee and tea that is fair trade.
    CarolynGillis
  • You can try.

    And what happens when you slip up? You justify it as stating"I didn't know" instead of berate yourself and hate yourself like you do the big companies?

    Not so fair if you do not.
    J_Jammer
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  • I didn't know that the IWW was still around. I'm assuming IWW is the Industrial workers of the world? they used to be extremely radical. calling for the complete overthrow of the capitalist system and such. they aren't your run of the mill union.
    diabolical44
  • I wouldn't call getting fired being 'overly sensitive', JJammer!!!

    Thanks for bringing this to our attention, cwc_agent -- I guess it's time to break out the picket signs again...
    shelchak
  • Definitely worth boycotting, even if they are the one place around here that serves soymilk. A little sacrifice, a lot of win.
    AnemicElitist
  • Starbucks is devolving into McDonald's?

    Crazy.
    Disable
  • i like how starbucks has made their pike place shit the new house standard - it's good stuff - and it actually tastes better than any of the other shit sold by the bag which can only be made to taste like coffee when brewed through a french press , using enough grinds to fill a planting pot .
    i really don't care what starbucks does about unions - if they have better coffee than a gas station when i'm on a road trip , i'm all about it - and i thank god for it .
    malathion
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