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STARBUCKS fired almost all of a union organising committee in one of its United States stores yesterday in what has been described as its most “blatant act of union busting yet.”
Seven workers at the Highland & Poplar store in Memphis, Tennessee, were sacked instantly — amounting to about 35 per cent of the workforce.
The global coffee giant claimed the workers were sacked for “policy violations” but Starbucks Workers United alleged it was retaliation for the unionising efforts. One worker, the group says, was dismissed for signing a union card in front of a security camera, not for security violations.
MATT ALLEN salutes the workers and reps who push back against bosses, win for members and make the Unite union what it is
HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
