ARTICLE PUBLISHED:  "Former Starbucks Worker Wins Settlement, Receives Back Pay"

   I published a report in the current issue of the Industrial Worker (Fall, 2015), the quarterly magazine of the union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), about the back pay settlement awarded to a former Starbucks worker, a barista, in 2015, for his illegal firing in 2005 for labor organizing with the IWW Starbucks Workers Union (SWU), in New York. The payout amount was $50,745., before taxes. The article is on p. 11. Check it out!

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Photo accompanying article:

Starbucks marquee, Times Square, Manhattan. Photo: FW Nicholas Patti

   As a footnote to this notice of publication, as this blog is being posted in January, 2016, I would like to add the following comments: First, I express my condolences for the seven killed in the suicide bombing attack in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday, January 14th, 2016, outside of a Starbucks there, and outside a police substation, luxury hotels, embassies, and offices, near the Sarinah shopping mall, according to the Daily News (New York, USA: 1/14/2016, p. 10) and WNYC, AM 820, National Public Radio (NPR), New York City, 7 am hour.

   Next, I express my condolences for a similar attack in Istanbul, Turkey, around the same time, in which, notably, citizens of Germany were killed. This news according to, also, WNYC, AM 820, National Public Radio (NPR), New York City, 7 am hour.

--FW Nicholas Patti