cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1987995

An excerpt from the article:

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Gone are the days when former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz could argue that the company’s upstart barista network would be no more than a blip in the coffee behemoth’s history.

On Tuesday, Starbucks Workers United (SBWU)’s parent union and Starbucks announced that they had reached a “foundational framework” for substantive negotiations over a range of issues.

“The fight is worth fighting for. This victory alone proves that no workplace is out of reach for organizing,” fired former Starbucks barista Alicia Flores of Portland, Oregon told In These Times, speaking in a personal capacity.

The two sides hope the agreement will form the basis for contract talks at nearly 400 union shops, the resolution of ongoing litigation, and an agreement over rules governing future organizing at Starbucks locations. While the publicly announced details of the agreement include few spe

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1941627

Just found out about this an hour ago.

Holy shit, this is good, and it's Marxist writers' group too.

We need more stuff like this.

@[email protected] Thought you might be interested in this, old friend (since you're the only other person I know right now besides myself that knew BayArea415, at least online).

But anyway, on another note, I'm glad that the PatSoc infiltration attempts were sorted out, otherwise the content would just be a repeat of Haz's trash ideas lol

Glad they're experimenting with a writing and literature group; very early in its initial phase, from what I know.

It's a pity that one of the people didn't get a chance to finish his own fictional work and had to stop at the beginning before it got to the crux or point of it all.

Anyway, enjoy, y'all.

Hi, I noticed that no one has posted here so I thought I would break the silence with a pelemic.

Tiering intentional creative action is a fundamental activity of our species. Work in this sense is a human need. However, the form work takes is not innate. The question of work, who does what, how, and why is perhaps the oldest political struggle.

In the present time, for most people, work is an exploitative, alienating, and humiliating fact of life to be endured, escaped, or embraced.

40 years on from the rise of neoliberalism, and the gains made by the last great labor movements have been steadily eroded. Barrons richer than nations have returned. The products of labor are funneled into their offshore pockets. They buy politicians, they buy media, they buy the law.

We live in a system built to subjugate the many, to destroy the earth, to crush life, and all to keep the miserable rich in diamonds, drugs, and toys, which they are too divorced from their humanity to even enjoy.

Hat