TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! INTERNATIONAL STARBUCKS DAY OF PROTEST HITS KANSAS CITY TOO!!!



It seems right to start the day with BREAKING NEWS of Kansas City Coffee Protest . . .

KC Insider info:

"Starbucks will be the focus a global day of action on Monday, November 25. There will be major actions in 4 cities around the world and leafleting in many other cities, including Kansas City. There will be some level of activity at a dozen or more locations in the Greater Kansas City area as workers around the world struggle for workplace justice":

Check it:

TODAY THERE'S KANSAS CITY PROTEST AGAINST WORKING CONDITIONS AT STARBUCKS BREWING!!!

Here's the notice sent by rather AWESOME TKC TIPSTERS who may or may not be mad that they put codes on the bathroom ddors in all the KC Proper to keep the hobos out.

Check it:

Starbucks Workers “Come Together” across Supply Chain in Global Action for Justice at Coffee Giant

Major actions in Seattle and New Zealand (home of Pactiv’s billionaire owner) and 15-20 other locations starting November 25

SEATTLE–Workers at Starbucks and its suppliers and their allies are hitting the streets today and all week to demand that company CEO Howard Schultz practice what he preaches: respect workers at his company and at suppliers. In the wake of a report by 24/7 Wall Street naming Starbucks as one of the top ten American poverty-wage employers, a global day of action on November 25th will unite factory workers who make Starbucks’ trademark cups with baristas across the world who fill the cups with caffeine and sugar concoctions. Actions planned in 15-20 cities will highlight the hypocrisy of CEO Howard Schultz, who has drawn criticism for repeatedly forcing workers to advance his political agenda under the “come together” slogan, while busting unions when his own employees “came together” for a voice on the job, and sourcing from companies that do the same.

“Pactiv in Stockton, CA makes cups and packaging for Starbucks and fast food companies. Starbucks has the power to stop Pactiv from cutting our wages and benefits and threatening our middle class way of life. They need to ensure that all workers at its stores and suppliers are paid a living wage and treated fairly. We are “coming together” to ask Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz for help. And we will keep doing what it takes to defend workers’ rights at Starbucks and its suppliers”, said Casey Freeman, President of the Pactiv Union in Stockton, CA (AWPPW 83).

“Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is part of the problem in America. He gobbled up $28.9 million in pay last year alone while we baristas made less than $9 an hour on average, even though we produced over $1.4 billion in profit for the company. So we’re ‘coming together’ on our own to ask him to spread the wealth- create good jobs at Starbucks and insist on fairness at its suppliers,” said Samantha Cole, a barista and member of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union.

The coalition unites the manufacturing workers at Pactiv who make Starbucks cups in Stockton and are fighting cuts to pay and benefits along with Chilean baristas who recently struck to bring Starbucks into compliance with collective bargaining law, and US baristas who are demanding fair pay, consistent scheduling, and an end to understaffing at the chain. The workers are members of four different independent unions and a workers’ center- the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers (AWPPW), Sindicato de Starbucks Chile, the IWW Starbucks Workers Union.

“We have a message for the American people. The corporate elites who led us into the economic crisis of the past six years will not be the people who will lead us back out. We need to come together as workers, for workers, to fight for a better life for everyone,” said Greg Jones with the AWPPW. “Our movement is growing. This is just the beginning.”
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Comments

  1. So I guess you're not advocating going to the airplane place?

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  2. Even Pedro will not offer these folks his protection.

    Like Napolean says, you have to have "Skills".

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  3. They should protest working conditions at KCPD.

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  4. I'll second that 6:16

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  5. I'll third that!
    What happened to Carl was nothing less than a political butt fuckin/with no lube.

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  6. Yep u iz co-rect 7:41




    Tkc, how bout moving that older thread to the front page. Surely we can't get more cops\citizens to comment further regarding the officer who was so wrongly accused.

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  7. Walmart's Now Ex-CEO To Pocket $113 Million Pension, 6182 Times Greater Than Average WMT Worker's 401(k) Balance

    Where did people ever get the idea these CEO's live to help us wage slaves?

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  8. I don't know if protests will work. The real unemployment rate in this country is close to 18%. These assholes will just fire the protesters and replace them with these desperate unemployed people who will take any job. There are just too many unemployed people to make protests and boycotts work. I think the Power Elite welcome these protests and hope for violence. Violent protests gives them justification for controlling the masses through the violent exercise of power. Look how much ammunition the various Federal agencies have bought in the past two years. It isn’t for target practice. I am afraid we are heading into the new Middle Ages where we are the peasants and these rich assholes are the lords. I pray every day I hope I am wrong.

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  9. Anon 10:31

    Conservatives only acknowledge that unemployment is high when critizing Obama. When critizing the unemployed they sing a different tune.

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  10. Shame on corporate coffee!

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  11. 10:31 ASKS.

    Bryon what did you find conservative about what I said? I said nothing against Obama. I think we are screwed by the 1% and if that is a conservative statement than you are more stupid than people give you credit. Trying reading and understanding post before you play troll. As for your savior Obama, a new CNN poll came out today saying 60% do not trust him. That is CNN not Fox News. Read and think before writing you fucking loser.

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  12. 10:31 ignore Byron. He is probably upset because one of his government checks is late or the latest issue of Barely Legal hasn't hit the news stands or his favorite porn site is down or he got his blind ass beat at chess or he realizes that he is an embarassment to his famous brother.

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  13. Anon 10:31

    Actually, I was agreeing with you. Mark has always been an embarrassment to us. Ms. 2:02 proves my point.

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  14. Starbucks is a good employer. I don't understand what this demonstration is about. Kansas City protests over the dumbest things. Oh, yeah... coffee and free internet for everybody. I love the place. Won't ever protest it. Sorry.

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  15. 324: You appear content and happy.

    No room for you here.

    Take up racism or mimic the cum guy.

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  16. One reason 3:24
    Is so happy, is he doesn't have to deal with negros at Starbucks.

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  17. Well, there are black folk working at Starbucks right along side the white trash that you think is the master race. Ignorant ass!

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  18. I don't know if were the master race or not, but it's painfully obvious ..were superior to the negro.
    You're the one that's ignorant, clearly.

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  19. You don't hear a lot of the white trash killing each other or pimping or raping each other. White trash hasn't gone feral like the blacks.

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  20. What really pisses me off about assholes who whine about what they are paid is, they knew when they took the job what it paid and if they didn't like that figure they should have kept right on looking for a job

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  21. Fast food is the new coal mines. These people are soon forgotten.

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  22. Stand Up KC missed out on Black Friday, Monday morning. Maybe they'll give you a protest with picket line and chants by the end of the week.

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  23. Stand Up KC are Democrat tools.

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  24. What shall we do with the Starbucks Bosses/What shall we do with the Starbucks Bosses/What shall we do with the Starbucks Bosses/Earl-eye in the morning...Make em' drink coffee til' they wake up and listen/make em' drink coffee til they wake up and listen/Make em' drink coffee til' they wake up and listen/Earl-eye in the morning...Decorate coffee with a union label/Decorate coffee with a union label/Decorate coffee with a union label/Earl-eye in the morning...

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