Do you represent an organization with an affinity of interests with Starbucks workers? If so we'd appreciate you adding your voice to those who have already spoken out in support of our campaign.
Please email starbucksunion@yahoo.com with your message of support!
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:39:12 +0100 (BST)
From: Edinburgh IWW
Subject: Solidarity Message
Edinburgh General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the
World (Scotland) sends its sincerest wishes and support to the
newly-formed Starbucks Baristas Union. May you go from strength to
strength. Already in Edinburgh IWW members are talking of following
suit and trying to organise Starbucks over here. You are an inspiration
and have breathed new life into the organisation. Power to your elbow!
In Solidarity,
Eddie Murray
Branch Secretary
Edinburgh General Membership Branch
Industrial Workers of the World
17 W. Montgomery Place, Edinburgh
From: "Mathieu Le Corre"
Subject: Starbucks campaign
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:10:15 +0200
The French National Confederation of Workers defends the right for
Starbucks baristas to afiliate to the union of their choice. We demand
that Starbucks respect electoral law and allow the IWW IU / 660 to
content the upcomming certification election.
Dignity and respect for Starbucks workers ! Workplace democracy !
For the French CNT's international secretariat,
Mathieu Le Corre
Secretary to the Americas
Starbucks Coffee Company
36th Street and Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Dear Starbucks Management,
The more than six hundred interfaith clergy and members of the Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition stand with all the workers in their right to dignity and a living wage, and to their right to a voice at their workplce. Our religious traditions all demand respect for workers and a commitment to uphold justice for workers.
To this end, the democratic right to form or join a trade union is fundamental. Should your employees at Starbucks collectively decide to join a unionto represent them, to empower them and to better their lives and working conditions, our faith traditions and our religious leaders fully support them in that decision. We trust you will respect them if they so choose, and recognize any union they might join to represent them.
Sincerely,
Rabbi Michael Feinberg
Executive Director
Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition
The NYC Labor and Employment Committee of the National Lawyers Guild is standing right behind you! Show the world that we do not want anymore 'partner' talk but decent jobs for all.
In solidarity,
Labor and Employment Committee
New York City Chapter
National Lawyers Guild
PO Box 31909
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-222-4711
Email: seac@seac.org
June 10, 2004
Dear members of the Starbucks Baristas Union,
The Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), a nationwide
grassroots network of students and youth dedicated to environmental and
social justice, wishes to extend its support and congratulations to the
baristas of the Starbucks at 36th and Madison in New York City and to
all Starbucks workers wishing to exercise their legal and human right
to form a labor union.
SEAC believes that workplace democracy, economic justice, and a
safe, healthy job environment are essential prerequisites to building a
sustainable, life-affirming world. We support grassroots democratic
unions, such as the Industrial Workers of the World, that provide
workers with a voice on the job.
We recognize in particular the urgent need for major policy changes
at Starbucks. In contradiction to managementÕs rhetoric about being
socially and environmentally responsible, Starbucks record shows that
quite the opposite is true. While paying lip-service to the notion of
fair trade, Starbucks continues to buy the vast majority of their
coffee from sources that pay farm workers poverty wages, use dangerous
pesticides and genetically modified crops, and destroy critical
rainforest habitat. While addressing their employees as ÒpartnersÓ,
Starbucks pays grossly inadequate wages, exposes workers to health and
safety hazards, and denies workers a voice in decisions that affect
them.
SEAC recognizes the importance of building alliances between
environmental and labor organizations. We stand in solidarity with
Starbucks workers against these destructive labor and environmental
policies enforced and condoned by Starbucks management, and we are
determined not to let union-busting be added to the list of StarbucksÕ
crimes. SEAC calls on Starbucks management to negotiate with its
employees in good faith, obey all labor laws and mmediately cease all
attempts to influence or obstruct a free and uninhibited National Labor
Relations Board election. We will be watching.
Starbucks baristas, stand up and be counted! The hour of justice is at hand!
In Solidarity,
The Student Environmental Action Coalition
From: secretariado@iwa-ait.org
Subject: Support of Starbucks workers
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:08:42 +0200
Oslo the 1st of June 2004
>From the IWA-Secretariat, Oslo
To the IWW- Starbucks workers
Dear fellow workers!
The International Workers Association (IWA) is informed through the
WSA that you are organizing of a shop of the Industrial Workers of the
World (IWW), and the Secretariat of the IWA hereby expresses the
solidarity and support to the fight of the Starbucks workers of New
York!
Your information is passed to the Sections and Friends of the IWA. Please, keep us informed about the developement of the fight.
With anarchosyndicalist greetings on behalf of the IWA-Secretariat,
Rolf Petter Larsen
General Secretary