The 4 page Starbucks coffee makers' union bulletin is attached (pdf, Spring 2007).
Also Australian A5 Starbucks workers' flyer.

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Text from UK IWW about what they're up to:

STARBUCKS WORKERS UNION - INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD INDUSTRIAL UNION 660

On May 17, 2004 in New York City, a group of Starbucks baristas announced the formation of a union. The Starbucks Workers Union is organised with the Industrial Workers of the World - a militant rank and file union for all workers. The demands were a living wage, secure work rosters, adequate staffing and respect on the job. The union spread to multiple stores in Manhattan. In three years the IWW Starbucks Workers Union expanded publicly from New York to Illinois, Maryland and Michigan and is organising in other states. Pressure from the union has seen the minimum wage raised and improved rostering. The company has responded with reprisals against a number of baristas, including illegal sackings and harassment. Two baristas won reinstatement but another 5 were sacked by the company. Despite this, the union is growing and spreading, with organising taking place across the US and into Canada.

In NZ thousands of casual fast food workers, including Starbucks baristas organised into the UNITE union as part of the successful and innovative Super Size My Pay campaign in 2005 and 2006. This mobilised workers across numerous fast food operations and focused on short sharp strikes, pickets and publicity targeting the brand image of fast food multinationals as responsible for casualisation and driving down wages.

In the UK the IWW is organising the Baristas United / Shop Workers Industrial Union in several organising campaigns at Starbucks and other employers, building union organisation for casual, migrant and young workers. Already one barista at Café Nero has won reinstatement with IWW representation and information and advice has been distributed across many stores by the IWW in alliance with Solidarity Federation and other supporters.

In France the CNT-F has carried out numerous demonstrations, pickets and occupations supporting Starbucks workers internationally and is currently organising Starbucks workers in several locations.

At the recent International Syndicalist Conference in Paris, May 1, 2007 a proposal was considered to organise an international union of Starbucks workers linking the current local unions across Europe, North America and Australasia.

The IWW asks all fellow workers in the UK who can lend a hand to this organising effort to get in contact and get involved. A true international union for Starbucks workers can be built, setting a model for building power for workers in fast food and non-fast food multinationals alike. To defeat the casualisation and low pay that comes from multinationals workers must organise industrially and internationally to unite and win!

Contact: Secretary: Adam Lincoln 07882 972 754