Category: The Service Worker

Starbucks Workers United has been planning an unfair labor practice strike for several months, all while maintaining the idea that these plans should be kept away from the non-organizing committee baristas. SBWU staffers told baristas that the strike is meant to push for Starbucks to finalize their contract; however, these same staffers have been telling…

Midwood Smokehouse, like many other restaurants, was affected by the Border Patrol Operation known as “Charlotte’s Web”, a nearly 3 week constant attack on Charlotte’s Hispanic communities. Several workers in the back of house stayed home out of fear of being affected by the raids, both at work and during their commutes. The raids coincided…

The major tasks of the Organization of Class-Conscious Service Workers, and the New Labor Organizing Committee at large, take on the struggle against lay-offs and the worsening of working conditions. These issues directly stem from the deteriorating economy, and as the contradictions between the working and ruling class heighten nationally, so too will the contradictions…

By: The Organization of Class-conscious Service Workers (OCSW) Since Brian Niccol became the Chairman and CEO ofStarbucks, bargaining between SBWU and the company hascome to a standstill, with the new leadership refusing tocontinue bargaining. Since that time, there has been all sortsof talk of the upcoming SBWU strike response to once andfor all obtain a…

Those of us that produced the paper “Barista’s Voice” began that work because, like all other Starbucks workers, we are overworked, understaffed, and underpaid. We chose to attempt to organize ourselves independently from SBWU because we upheld the anti-State Union position of the New Labor Organizing Committee, meaning that the existing unions are incorporated into…