The toughest skin - Liberté Locke
A great, short article by Liberté Locke demonstrating the differing experiences one can have at work, based on issues of identity.
The truth about the million dollar coffee company
Submitted by Recomposition on Jul 5 2014 01:08
This week we bring you a second piece from a Starbucks worker about a firing, following Work to Rule. Part of struggle is not only the lessons and strategies, but also the experiences and the real life costs that occur when we start to take action. This submission succinctly takes us though one woman’s experience that ended too soon.
Work to rule
Submitted by Recomposition on May 12 2014 01:22
An account by a Starbucks Workers Union organizer of a successful work-to-rule.
Christmas at Starbucks - Liberté Locke
An account by Liberté Locke about working at Starbucks in New York over the Christmas season.
Together we win: the fight to organise Starbucks
A short 15 minute documentary that chronicles the struggles and victories of the Starbucks Workers Union, from how it formed to members continue to organize.
Solidarity unionism at Starbucks: the IWW uses Section 7
An article from Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross on the IWW's organizing at Starbucks. Originally appeared in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society (September 2007).
Coping with clopening: retail worker’s most dreaded shift
Submitted by Recomposition on Apr 11 2012 23:19
Our friend Liberté Locke writes about what it’s like to work a ‘clopen’ in retail, to close the store late at night and get up early the next morning to open the store. Liberte’s story is the first in a series of stories we’re going to be running about work, sleep, and dreams. In their own way each of these stories gets at an important part of life under capitalism. Capitalists make their money by making us make products and perform services that the capitalists own. They don’t pay us the full value of what we add to those products and services. That’s key to capitalists’ profits. This is a kind of robbery. But there’s another kind of robbery...
Starbucks protest graphics and flyers, 2008
Submitted by Lumpen on Jan 24 2012 04:53
Graphics for a flyer created in 2008, Australia. On 24 April 2008, Starbucks fired barista Monica in Sevilla, Spain, for her activity on behalf of the CNT union. She asked to be identified by only her first name to avoid future employment discrimination. On June 6, Starbucks fired 2 year barista Cole Dorsey in Grand Rapids, USA, for his activity on behalf of the Industrial Workers of the World union.
My body, my rules: a case for rape and domestic violence survivors becoming workplace organizers
Submitted by Liberté Locke on Dec 5 2011 19:27
Liberté Locke, a Starbucks Workers Union organizer, writes about how violence at work and in our personal lives are similar, how domestic abusers and bosses use the same techniques of control and that we need to fight both.
The Organizer # 20
November 2009 PDF of the Twin Cities IWW branch's newsletter.
