Organizing McDonalds and Starbucks
Submitted on Thu, 03/23/2006 - 12:49pm
Reposted from Labourstart.Org.
Last week we urged all of you to send off messages in support of the heroic effort by a plucky New Zealand union to organize workers at McDonalds -- and we mentioned their high-profile strike at Starbucks as well.
We have been asked to clarify that (a) in several European and Latin American countries, strong union movements have succeeded in organizing McDonalds, and (b) in Canada, an effort was made to unionize Starbucks by the Canadian Auto Workers, leading to a well-publicized 'unstrike' back in 1999.
That having been said, McDonald's must surely be on the top of everyone's list who is concerned about the growth of the non-union, low-paid workforce -- which is why we all need to send off thousands more messages to McDonald's in New Zealand in support of the Super Size My Pay campaign:
http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=80