Starbucks Union - Starbucks Union International Supporters

Looking for investors

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:18:59 -0400

Java Times Caffe is searching for the best investors candidates, to help expend a very unique coffee shop concept in to every country in the world. Java Times Caffe is an exceptional concept focusing on quality coffee from Mexico and teas from around the world. Java Times Caffé currently has about 43 different types of coffee as well as a wide selection of teas marketed under Javaxotica label.
In addition to coffee and tea, Java Times Caffé offers a hot and cold
menu that includes Paninis, wraps, bagels, salads, pizza, nachos and a variety of
blended fruit frappe drinks. All of Java Times Caffé’s menu items are of the highest quality and will translate very well to the US market or any market. We have four different prototype variations concept, including a drive-thru locations. However, Java Times Caffé is currently expanding with only the full store prototype. The prototype store is between 80 and 150 square meters, and will have some outdoor seating for guests. The kitchen in each location is small, and ranges between 12 and 16 meters. Total seating within a Java Times Caffé location is between 30 and 70.

Duisburg, Germany: Solidarity with the Starbucks Workers Union

Sat, 19 May 2007 07:11:57 -0400

Duisburg, Germany, May 18th: FAU-IWA Duisburg local established a stall in front of the Starbucks shop at the brand-new luxory shopping mall "City-Palais". Workers have been informed about the SWU and Starbucks union-busting in the USA. Clients and people passing where mostly upset about Starbucks policy as well as about the fact that they set up a shop in a poor industrial town with more than 20% jobless people.

FAU is a small, but very active grassroot union in Germany. Local FAU unions did pickets and took other type of action against Starbucks union-busting policy in more than a dozen German towns over the past two years. For more details (in German language) about the action at Duisburg see http://www.fau.org/artikel/art_070519-064536

AUSTRALIA - NEW ZEALAND

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:40:49 -0500

Id like to see a strong starbucks union in the oceania region! As ive said in another post, there is becoming an australian craze with starbucks, there popping up everywhere.. www.starbucks.com.au just check out the "Now open store list". Also When our store (Starbucks Lavington) opened 2 years ago there has been 73 stores been built and run.
That is pretty good for a country with 20million people! Ive also read the poll about how much you get paid.. It looks as if we are on a higher wage then everyone else.. Ive been with the company for 1 year and $13.10 AUD to USD is 10.1$.. Thats just a barista, but on the other hand our managment staff get paid far less.

can i kno more about starbuck?

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:35:11 -0500

i would like to kno y the starbucks successful been outside the U.S and Canada.

any one can help me find the detail?

its not only starbucks workers who get shafted

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:27:24 -0500

I found this site after doing a search to see if anyone else was having problems with SB.

I was injured in my eye at a Starbucks by an unruly child that the manager knew about but would not/did not try to have controlled by the parents, and she did not ask them to leave either. The kids were absolutely wrecking the place, jumping all over sofas, coffee tables, annoying other patrons...but then one kid swung something and hit me in the eye, damaging my cornea.

Starbucks Union USA

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:42:22 -0500

Starbucks International workers,who ever ,and where ever, you are,please help your Starbucks Union USA brothers and sisters organize by posting lots of support on this web site - www.retailworker.com Thank you, my friends,for your support.

Workers of the World Unite??

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:47:20 -0500

I see that there is a movement to unionize in New Zealand, but since there are starbucks all over the world, are union movements forming elsewhere? I am specifically curious about unions outside of the english-speaking world.

Anti-union???

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:01:46 -0500

I just wonder HOW Starbucks can continue to be a major donor to Democratic candidates and liberal causes AND be against an organized workforce? Write your Democratic office holders and ask them to ask Starbucks Corporate leadership why this is so.

Starbucks employs unfair tactics against local coffee shops.

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:37:49 -0400

Starbucks eliminates competition through buy-outs, "cluster bombing" tactics, and market cannibalization. The Ocean Beach Grassroots Organization, in support of the local merchants of Ocean Beach, declares as part of a boycott that, "Starbucks employs unfair tactics against local coffee shops. If Starbucks finds a successful coffee establishment they build one or more locations to take their business. They lease buildings to keep out competition, send agents around to take notes and pictures (as we have witnessed in Ocean Beach)" (obgo.org). Ocean Beach is a community located in San Diego, California. It has recently been the site of numerous protests against the Starbucks Corporation's attempt to open franchises there. The Ocean Beach planning board is working on a ban called Proposition A that bans "Formula Retail" restaurants and stores from encroaching on Ocean Beach. In Japan, Kinzo Niwa, managing director of Pokka Corp., which runs the Cafe de Crie chain, a rival of Starbucks, explains, "Our sales don't drop even if Starbucks opens a shop near ours, but if we simultaneously apply to a landlord to rent space in the same building, the landlord chooses our opponent" (The Japan Times). Starbucks's market-entry strategy involves first finding a market's leading independent coffee shop, and then going to the landlord of that coffee shop and buying the lease out from under them, replacing the shop with a Starbucks. As is common in Ocean Beach and Japan, the existing coffee shop is forced to move or go out of business. If Starbucks cannot buy the lease, Starbucks will open several franchises around the shop (nearly one on each corner) and heavily promote to draw the crowd. This begins a "cluster bombing" campaign where Starbucks opens so many franchises in one area that they become unsustainable. After driving out independently owned coffee shops, the Starbucks franchises then have to start competing with themselves, cannibalizing each other's sales. Starbucks, the parent company, is basically promoting Darwinism as their business model, a business model that is becoming unbeatable. In Starbucks's 2002 10-K Report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it is reported, "As a result of its expansion strategy of clustering stores in existing markets, Starbucks has experienced a certain level of cannibalization of sales of existing stores by new stores as store concentration has increased." Despite this cannibalization, Starbucks's net revenue growth increased 24% that year.

Borders Down 5.3 Million

Sat, 04 Jun 2005 22:47:06 -0400

I see that Starbucks now sells music. I'm sure their shadow, Borders, will like that considering that they just took a 5.3 million dollar hit in their music department.

Details @

http://www.bordersunion.org/node/7231

Hi from New Zealand!

Sat, 21 May 2005 20:19:24 -0400

Hi guys!

Well done!

We are also unionising Starbucks workers here in Auckland, New Zealand and are getting a very positive response!

Keep it up!

Bobo

http://www.unite.org.nz

The Future of Organized Labor

Wed, 11 May 2005 21:25:44 -0400

The Future of Organized Labor

May 8, 2005

With U.S. union membership down to only 8% of the workers in the corporate sector - the lowest in 90 years - a clash of unions is underway within the AFL-CIO over the future direction of organized labor. The unions challenging the leadership of President John J. Sweeney - the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Teamsters UNITE and the Laborers - want more of member unions dues to the AFL-CIO returned for expanded organizing and want more mergers among the 76 existing national unions.

Beyond what they call "restructuring", it is remarkable what they are not demanding, other than new leadership this year from their own ranks. They are not focusing on the fundamental corporate attack on unions, workers and, via corporate globalization, the American economy itself. To be sure, these "rebel" unions do not see themselves as affected by WTO, NAFTA and the shipment of whole industries and jobs to authoritarian or dictatorial countries such as Mexico and China. SEIU represents service workers, retail, hospital and other jobs not easily shifted abroad.