Venti Solidarity - Interview with Starbucks worker unionising in the US
Rupture Radio
English - March 29, 2022 15:31 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBNews Commentary News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week Cian sits down with Starbucks worker Laila Dalton about her experience trying to unionise her Starbucks shop in Pheonix Arizona (USA), and socialist author and activist Alex Stout who has written about the US-wide Starbucks unionisation drive.
Since the first Starbucks unoinised last December, oer 150 stores across America have filed for union elections. Workers are getting organised, but so are the bosses, with a new union-busting CEO brought in and major attempts to intimidate workers.
Show your support by donating to the Solidarity fund started by the Pheonix Metro Starbucks workers: https://www.gofundme.com/f/phoenix-metro-starbucks-solidarity-fund
You can see the video mentioned here: https://perfectunion.us/leaked-union-busting-footage/
Find out more about the struggle, with this interview with Laila Dalton discussing her experience: https://jacobinmag.com/2022/03/starbucks-nlrb-election-union-organizing-food-industry-unfair-labor-practice
And this article by Alex Stout outlining the struggle so far, and the next steps: https://reformandrevolution.org/2022/03/23/starbucks-goes-to-war-in-attempt-to-smash-worker-power/
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