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Subject: E-Mail Action: Starbucks Must Honor MLK Day in 2008
Jim Donald
Chief Executive Officer
Starbucks Corporation
jdonald@starbucks.com
Dear Mr. Donald,
I urge you to pay baristas the same holiday premium on Martin Luther King Day this January 21st as Starbucks pays on several other federal holidays. Many baristas, like many Americans in general, are deeply inspired by Dr. King's message and example. Yet while Starbucks claims to embrace diversity, it does not pay the time and a half premium to baristas who work through the holiday commemorating Dr. King's birthday.
Dr. King was a champion not only of civil rights but of labor rights as well. Indeed, he was murdered while in Memphis to support a strike of mostly black sanitation workers for the right to form a union.
The IWW Starbucks Workers Union (SWU) is an organization of employees at your coffee chain united for a living wage, secure work hours, and fairness on the job. Your corporation has been cited multiple times by the National Labor Relations Board for your illegal union-busting campaign against the workers.
I join the SWU's call for Starbucks to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the baristas who work on the federal holiday commemorating his birthday by paying the time and half holiday premium. I expect your prompt attention to this matter.
Your Name
Your Organization
123 Your St.
Yousville, YO 12345 United States
Phone: (123)456-7890
Fax: (123)456-7890x123
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Your Personal Statement
To: hschultz@starbucks.com, jdonald@starbucks.com, voneil@starbucks.com, alincoff@starbucks.com, twilk@starbucks.com, wbeckman@starbucks.com, bravener@starbucks.com, tbryant@starbucks.com
Subject: E-Mail Action: Starbucks Must Honor MLK Day in 2008
Jim Donald
Chief Executive Officer
Starbucks Corporation
jdonald@starbucks.com
Dear Mr. Donald,
I urge you to pay baristas the same holiday premium on Martin Luther King Day this January 21st as Starbucks pays on several other federal holidays. Many baristas, like many Americans in general, are deeply inspired by Dr. King's message and example. Yet while Starbucks claims to embrace diversity, it does not pay the time and a half premium to baristas who work through the holiday commemorating Dr. King's birthday.
Dr. King was a champion not only of civil rights but of labor rights as well. Indeed, he was murdered while in Memphis to support a strike of mostly black sanitation workers for the right to form a union.
The IWW Starbucks Workers Union (SWU) is an organization of employees at your coffee chain united for a living wage, secure work hours, and fairness on the job. Your corporation has been cited multiple times by the National Labor Relations Board for your illegal union-busting campaign against the workers.
I join the SWU's call for Starbucks to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the baristas who work on the federal holiday commemorating his birthday by paying the time and half holiday premium. I expect your prompt attention to this matter.
Your Name
Your Organization
123 Your St.
Yousville, YO 12345 United States
Phone: (123)456-7890
Fax: (123)456-7890x123
p.s.
Your Personal Statement