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Workers Win Large Settlement at Supplier to Chinese Restaurants After Hard Fought Campaign: Energetic Worker-Led Campaign Saw Key Customers Drop the Distribution Warehouse Until Workers' Rights Were Respected

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Fri, 2011-08-19

<img align="right" height="223" width="300" src="/sites/default/files/images/foodservwork_1.jpg" alt="" />August 18, 2011 - Contact: press (at) brandworkers.org

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Urgent Solidarity Appeal - Starbucks Worker Wrongfully Terminated!

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Thu, 2011-07-21

Call and/or text Starbucks Store Manager Rafael Fox @ 860-559-6339. Demand Tiffany White-Thomas' job be reinstated @ the Canal/Broadway Starbucks in NYC. Demand to know why he refuses to promote mothers, discriminates in hiring, and fires union workers. Do not stop.

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Chinese Restaurant Chain Drops Supplier Over Massive Wage Theft - Workplace Justice Campaign Wins Potentially Decisive Victory

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Mon, 2011-06-27

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Joining a Growing Number of Leading Retailers, Morton Williams Drops Sonny & Joe's Hummus

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Thu, 2011-05-05

Embattled Kosher Food Factory Faces Growing Retail Consensus on Workers' Rights Abuses

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After Hard-Fought Campaign, Fired IWW Union Barista Jeff Bauer Achieves Victory at Ozzie’s Coffee & Tea!

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Fri, 2011-04-22

<img src="/sites/default/files/images/signing settlement.preview.jpg" align="right">By NYC Wobblies

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Former Ozzie’s Barista Settles for $15,500

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Thu, 2011-04-07

<a target="_blank" href="http://parkslope.patch.com/articles/former-ozzies-barista-settles-for-15500">By Kristin V Brown - Park Slope Patch, April 3, 2011</a> - Reposted in accordance with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html">Fair Use Guidelines</a>.

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Protest Planned for Starbucks CEO

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Thu, 2011-04-07

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/3/31/starbucks-union-locke-students/">By Mercer R. Cook - The Harvard Crimson, March 31, 2011</a> - reprinted according to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html">Fair Use</a> guidelines.

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Campaign for Fair Severance at MPG - IWW NYC GMB

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Tue, 2011-02-01

Take action: <a href="http://www.citizenspeak.org/node/2128" target="_blank">http://www.citizenspeak.org/node/2128</a> 
Dear Friends,

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Breaking: Baristas at the Largest Starbucks in New York City (Astor Place) Honor MLK by Joining the IWW Starbucks Union

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Tue, 2011-01-18

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Starbucks Workers Union (Industrial Workers of the World). Contact: Zelig Stern, 508-524-2118; Cason Bolton, Jr, 702-490-1732

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Time to Keep Working

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Thu, 2010-12-16

Time to Keep Working 
by Bill Reed

December 15, 2010

Perhaps you have heard about the Flaum Appetizing company cheating their employees out of large amounts of overtime pay and firing the workers for joining the IWW.

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Brandworkers and Martin Garbus Pledge Vigorous Defense of Gorilla Coffee Workers

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Mon, 2010-12-06

New York, NY- Legendary First Amendment litigator Martin Garbus and noted workers' rights organization Brandworkers have taken on the representation of gourmet coffee workers being subjected to a controversial defamation lawsuit by prominent Brooklyn-based coffee company, Gorilla Coffee and its owners.

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NYC IWW Union Barista Fighting For His Job Back!

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Sun, 2010-12-05

On June 29th, 2010 Park Slope, Brooklyn-based independent coffee shop Ozzie's Coffee & Tea fired IWW union barista Jeff Bauer for engaging in legally protected union activity. The NYC branch of the IWW has been engaged in a fight for justice for Fellow Worker Bauer, both through Direct Action and filing multiple Unfair Labor Practices (ULPs) with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

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Flaum Appetizing Products Dropped by Prominent Market over Workers' Rights Concerns

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Thu, 2010-12-02

Park Slope Food Coop to Discontinue Sale of Sonny & Joe's Hummus Brand

For Immediate Release: Brandworkers - Contact: press (at) brandworkers.org, December 1, 2010

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Flaum Workers on Pacifica Radio

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Thu, 2010-12-02

<img src="/graphics/labor/laborv2.jpg" align="right">Featured is a nice piece featuring Flaum workers Maria Corona, Gloria Torres, and Jose Pani; you can listen online <a href="http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/101129_190001bbridges.MP3" target="_blank">here</a> - (starts at 23:14).

Note how co-host Ken Nash ends the piece:

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Kosher business refuses to pay $260,000 in back wages to fired workers

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Sat, 2010-11-27

Disclaimer - The opinions of the author do not necessarily match those of the IWW. The image pictured to the right did not appear in the original article, we have added it here to provide a visual perspective. This article is reposted in accordance to Fair Use guidelines.