Starbucks fires union organizer

The Daily News Online ^ | 8/7/06 | ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE

[sig226]

The WOBBLIES are back!!!!
Bwahahaha. Maybe they should have titled it, "Arrogant NYC Twit Gets The Sack."

The link to the blog page is all I had, scroll up to see the original story.

[speedy]

I already pay enough for my ice venti non-fat chai, to which I am hopelessly addicted. No way any I want any wobblies in there messing with it.

[kingu]

"By terminating me on Saturday, Starbucks has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's an anti-worker, anti-union company," Gross said

Because it's all about 'me.'

[eleni121]

I think I'll try a latte after reading this.

[Fiji Hill]

"I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, alive as he could be.
'Why, Joe,' I said, 'you're ten years dead!"
I never died, said he."

[Ben Mugged]

Starbucks has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's an anti-union company

I feel a sudden craving for a venti decaf latte.

[GATOR NAVY]

Two notes:

1) I had no idea the IWW was still around.

2) Anybody who pays $5.00 for a cup of coffee is an idiot.

[Publius6961]

Being immune to caffeine addiction has its benefits.
When Starbucks goes union, I'm outta there.
Three times a week or whatever...

[MindBender26]

We are really old fa*ts if we remember the Wobblies. Was a very Communist dominated union.

PS, GLOCKs rule.

[Publius6961]

I feel a sudden craving for a venti decaf latte.

Why bother?

[GATOR NAVY]

I should modify that to read:

2) Anybody who pays $5.00 for a cup of coffee is an idiot...but Starbucks has become rich by proving there are a lot of idiots.

[AnAmericanMother]

WOBBLIES? The Wobblies would be ashamed to have a bunch of metrosexual caffeine-jerks as members.

I can just hear what Joe Hill would be saying . . . and it wouldn't be polite.

Fortunately, he's dead.

[philo]

Ironic that the guy who wrote that was from Seattle.

[I got the rope]

I like you.

[Ben Mugged]

I love the taste, my doctor tells me to avoid caffeine. And yes, I realize that decaffeinated is only slightly less caffeine than regular.

[AnAmericanMother]

I still know ALL the words to "The Preacher and the Slave" and "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night".

Not that I believe one doggone word those old Commies said . . . but as Tom Lehrer said, "they may have won all the battles . . . but we had all the good songs!"

[Calusa]

I confess I don't think I've ever been in Starbucks. May I ask what a 'barista' is is? If I guess the guy behind the counter serving coffee would I be close?

[Doctor Raoul]

WOBBLIES wobble but the won't fall down.

Are Wobblies technically focilized Commies?

[KneelBeforeZod]

anybody who pays $5 for coffee does because they can.

[cowtowney]

"By terminating me on Saturday, Starbucks has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's an anti-worker, anti-union company,"

I'm sure that's just gonna kill their sales./s