Seems like all we do on these forums is talk and talk our heads off. Point, counter point. You're wrong, no you're wrong. All this time we spend running our mouths, getting pissed off, getting miffed by what the opposing view has to say. I guess all of this discourse is healthy and it kills time for those of us who can't play video games very well.
But I just wanted to direct the attention of the forum to a couple of different items. One, while we were all busy writing love letters to one another on the green screen the IWW won the hearts and minds of yet another New York City store. Two, I'm going to estimate from where I'm sitting that the Starbucks Workers Union is not busting open the wine bottles and celebrating. Yeah, I bet the One Big Plotting Planning Scheming Strategizing Union is coming up with some new innovative tactic to organize the working class and dazzle the senses and having some pizza right now. Somewhere near you.
Now I don't want to send out the message to people that union organizing is all work and no play. I promise you that our strategy meetings are a lot more fun than your stores annual holiday meeting and even more fun than a Starbucks, Howard Schultz, Akin Gump "creating the union busting experience" meeting. I'm kind of embarassed to work for a company that employs a lawyer named Akin Gump (who is he?? Forrest Gump's younger, not as smart or attractive brother) to violate my human rights. Sounds like something out of a bad movie based on an even worse John Grisham novel.
If anything I think the Starbucks Workers Union has shown its staying and growing power. What you people on the outside don't realize is that while union organizing can be scary when you are dealing with a company like Starbucks that violates human rights and labor law like the chubby little school girl that comes to your store goes through frappucinos, we are actually managing to have a kick ass time while doing it.
So come on and join the party, we're not all a bunch of smelly hippies that wish they had a go at Jim Morrison before he died. I'm actually wearing a Gap hoodie right now that I bought from the Gap and never felt any liberal guilt. I don't hate cops or spit on troops or cry whenever I see Bush come on television. The IWW embraces all workers from all backgrounds and all walks of life no matter who you vote for, what you wear, what position your prefer or any of that. All I think that really matters is that A)you're a worker and B)you're damn proud of it and you're tired of being pushed around.
So yeah, come out and play with us. You'll be glad you did.