"Stan de SD" > wrote in message k.net>...
> "Alex Russell" > wrote in message
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> > "Stan de SD" > wrote in message
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> > >
> > > "Dan Clore" > wrote in message
> > > ...
> > > > News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
> > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
> > > >
> > > > Starbucks Obstructing First US Union Vote
> > > > posted by IU/660 on Tuesday June 01 2004 @ 11:44AM PDT
> > > > June 1, 2004
> > > > Contact:
> > > > Starbucks Obstructing First US Union Vote
> > > >
> > > > Workers to Schultz: What are you so scared of?
> > > >
> > > > New York, NY--The Starbucks Baristas Union and community
> > > > members across the country have condemned repeated attempts
> > > > by the company to deny workers a fair vote on the Union.
> > > > While paying lip-service to respecting the choice of
> > > > employees, Starbucks has deployed a variety of crude tactics
> > > > in an effort to defeat the IWW IU/660, which would be the
> > > > first union certified in the United States at the mammoth chain.
> > > >
> > > > Supporters around the country and internationally are
> > > > contacting Starbucks demanding they live up to their
> > > > rhetoric. If Starbucks really is a bastion of worker
> > > > benefits, what is Chairman Howard Schultz, who raked in over
> > > > $17 million last year, so scared of? The truth is Starbucks,
> > > > with its poverty wages and rampant repetitive-stress
> > > > dangers, resembles a sweatshop more than it does a decent
> > > > place to work.
> > >
> > > Yeah, and all those 20-something college-age Americans are being forced
> to
> > > work there against their will, right? I guess YOU would think it's a
> > > sweatshop, given that you strike me as the type of feminized, spoiled
> > > cry-baby who has never held a real job one day in his life.
> > >
> > > Tell us, Dan Clore, self-appointed "voice" of the workers -
> > > what in the hell do YOU do for a living?
> > >
> > Can't come up with a real argument so you want to shoot the messenger?
>
> Came up with an argument that when right over your little head. Nobody is
> being forced to work at Starbucks, McDonalds, Wal-Mart, or whatever
And nobody is being forced to own & operate Starbucks, McDonalds,
Wal-Mart. If the CEO's don't like unions they can find another job as
well.
In the USA people have the right to form a board of representatives on
either side of the field.