submitted by seamus
Jul 22 2008 — 2:00am
City Pages has a nice write-up on the recent announcement of employees at the Mal of America Starbucks affilliating with the Industrial Workers of the World. The workers demanded a living wage, an end to under-staffing, and guaranteed work hours. There’s certainly more to come…
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Can't be more predictable than yankees.
Enh, at least some good came out of it. Eventually.
If Hardy can find his form from two years ago it will be a fantastic trade. Go-go was at best a defensive center fielder. If he could have learne...
I agree. The Yankees are boringly predictable.
This is why the Twins are the Twins and the Yankees are the Yankees. Let's see, should we go for Hardy or Teixera? Hmmm.
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I like the guy, but I have to admit he was a bit disappointing.
Just about every time we went to a game at the dome, you'd hear "fans" (quote marks emphasized) trashing GoGo loudly, which made me want to stand ...
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13 Reader Comments
12:42 am
Starbucks tweaks its list of Minnesota closures in 5, 4, 3, 2…
1:21 am
@ericO
Agreed.
7:19 am
Anybody who’d pay union dues to work in a fast food restaurant probably needs to be in one. I would never join a union of course, but I’ve always defended peoples’ right to join/form one. Some people were just born to run in herds.
7:22 am
I saw this in yesterdays Minnesota business alert and the sad part is I laughed out loud. I mean seriously – the time to do this is when things are good so you are more protected when the economy hits the skids not when Starbucks is closing underperformed stores. And 30 days notice for a position that serves coffee? That’s pretty darn good. City Pages left out that this “union” has all of 200 members. I see the coffee serving industry quaking in their boots.
8:13 am
That’s just all the caffine. Hey-oh, pathetic joke of the day!
9:47 am
There are some coffee pourers in Bloominton who are about to get a lesson in economics that eluded them during their time in the K-12 world.
The whole notion of unionization and collective bargaining comes from workers banding together to potentially withhold their skill set from management in a labor dispute. Should these children ‘withhold their skills’ from the company, they’ll learn hard and fast just how replaceable they are.
Guaranteed living wage? For pouring coffee? You aspire to make $8.60/hour for the rest of you life? How will you be able to buy hemp sandals and Che t-shirts on that teenager wage?
9:53 am
they’ll learn hard and fast just how replaceable they are.
Especially since 20 some stores just emptied out their already-trained-and-knowledgeable staff.
10:36 am
Scab baristas! Yes!
10:40 am
Baristas with scabs! Yes!
11:20 am
Scabpacino! Yes!
11:22 am
This conversation keeps reminding me of “Grosse Pointe Blank.”
Solidarity, babee!
2:38 pm
I was in a union for what was basically fast food work, and we still got shit on by management. I don’t feel like unions are effective for that sort of work.
1:21 pm
If every fast food, coffee serving establishment worker joined a single union, they would have a lot of power – even if they are considered unskilled workers by definition. They could strike at 10pm and by 10am the next morning a country that has gone without its foamy sugar & caffeine specialty drink would be throwing money at them begging for an esspresso injection.
If they held out until 5pm toddlers in minivan carseats everywhere would be going without their supper time, happy meal and mothers who’ve had to hear “My fry-fry! My fry-fry!” three hundred times in a row would be directing shrill threats towards their area government official via their cell phone because he hadn’t yet settled the strike.