Report on successful union organizing campaign in the bay area of so-called California at Peet's Cafe chain stores by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Three Peet’s Coffee shops in Berkeley and Oakland, California, United States, won their campaign to form a union with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). On June 9,...
Why the IWW? They haven’t been relevant for 100 years. How can you have a union of workers in completely different industries? They’ll want different things and negotiating for those things will be hard.
If you read the article, evidently the IWW’s customer service was better.
An international union actually makes sense if you think about today’s corporate landscape.
Modern large corps are very international, with facilities for production, distribution, and retail all over the globe, so just striking in one country doesn’t make sense because funds and production can be shifted so quickly to a different city, state, or country.
The pandemic demonstrated how tightly connected the supply chains are, so striking just one or a few parts can have ripple effects on the bottom line.
Why the IWW? They haven’t been relevant for 100 years. How can you have a union of workers in completely different industries? They’ll want different things and negotiating for those things will be hard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World
If you read the article, evidently the IWW’s customer service was better.
An international union actually makes sense if you think about today’s corporate landscape.
Modern large corps are very international, with facilities for production, distribution, and retail all over the globe, so just striking in one country doesn’t make sense because funds and production can be shifted so quickly to a different city, state, or country.
The pandemic demonstrated how tightly connected the supply chains are, so striking just one or a few parts can have ripple effects on the bottom line.