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Starbucks
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Starbucks workers have a golden opportunity
This article by Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant was originally published with Jacobin. Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New…
United States: Starbucks has busted unions since 1987 – How can we win this time?
By Matt Smith, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) The most important unionization campaign in…
From one barista to another: Sending solidarity to the United States!
The following is a letter from Amy Ferguson to Starbucks workers organizing in the U.S. Amy is a…
United States: Starbucks workers win a fresh brewed union
By Jesse Shussett, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Less than a month after winning…
Starbucks & Nespresso’s child labour secret exposed
A boy of ten or twelve carries a sack of coffee beans bigger than his torso up a steep hill. He stops to rub his back, grimacing in pain, then picks up the sack again and carries on. This is the true face of Starbucks and Nespresso, behind the mask of “ethical” corporate branding: children working for 40 hours a week, for about £5 per day.
