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Picket line defends Starbucks workers
Published Jun 18, 2005 9:54 PM
Over 70 people from various organizations of workers and pro-union groups
picketed the Starbucks coffee shop at First Avenue and 17th Street in New
York’s borough of Manhattan June 4 in defense of Starbucks worker Sara
Bender, fired for her organizing efforts. Workers at the coffee shop are
attempting to get union recognition and have appealed to the Industrial
Workers of the World, or IWW, a group that identifies with the original
anarcho-syndicalist IWW of the period before the 1920s. Among the usual chants
like “No union, no peace,” one could also hear some
Starbucks-specific cries of “No union, no latté” and
tongue-in-cheek demands for a “50-cent cup of coffee.” Among those
supporting the Starbucks workers was a contingent from the local Million Worker
March organization.
—Story and photo by Anne Pruden
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