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CUPE_Reformer
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posted 17 April 2007 08:15 AM

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On March 30, the National Labor Relations Board's New York office charged that Starbucks had committed violations of law in trying to ward off union activity at four Manhattan outlets....
And judging by the lines at Starbucks stores in progressive and union-friendly Manhattan, the accusations of union-busting and poor pay may not matter.

What's your flavour of social justice?

[ 17 April 2007: Message edited by: CUPE_Reformer ]

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N.Beltov
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posted 17 April 2007 09:06 AM

Blecch. Activism as shopping. For true, rich flavour try socialism and strong unions. Accept no substitutes.

Mind you, I'd be hard pressed to find any of these small coffee franchises that are unionized. Tim Horton's has also had Unfair Labour Practices, like Wal-Mart in Quebec, brought against them. The turnover in these places is very high and makes unionizing very difficult.

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Le Téléspectateur
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posted 17 April 2007 10:26 AM

I wonder if a customer-employee co-op (like MEC) would work for the donut/coffee shop craze?

Fair Trade Beans and coffee prices below Tim Hortons prices.

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Michelle
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posted 18 April 2007 02:56 PM

Wouldn't that be great? I guess it's up to activists to create those places.

Sometimes I wonder whether it wouldn't be a good idea for more lefties to take business courses, just to get the technical know-how when it comes to accounting and business practices and filling out the right form for the right place, etc., in order to start up co-operative businesses.

Of course, I say this as an accounting and business ignoramus. But I think there's a lot of snobbery regarding administrative or (read in a snarky tone) "management science" type of specialization. And so, lefties get a reputation as being "bad with money" and ideological and to a certain extent I think we buy into it.

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trippie
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posted 18 April 2007 11:58 PM

I think it is a false statement to think that lefties need business courses....

Left winged politics are based on economics... Thats the whole priciple of socialism... A socialist use of the productive forces and the socialist distribution of the products they produce..

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