For Immediate Release:
IWW Starbucks Workers Union (Industrial Workers of the World)

Contact: Liberte Locke, 917-693-7742

December 30, 2009

Statement of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union

Year of Legal Losses for Starbucks is Capped Off with Another Union Victory

Less than two months after a legal defeat in a high-stakes appeal, Starbucks is settling charges of further workers' rights violations committed against baristas organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World for secure work hours, affordable health care, and respect on the job.

After an independent investigation, Region 2 of the National Labor Relations Board in Manhattan brought a complaint against the fast food coffee chain for illegally suspending and reprimanding a barista who stopped work to participate in a union protest; interrogating baristas about their union activity; and tearing down union flyers from company bulletin boards.

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