Although Starbucks has an image of being social concerned, how it treat its workers contradicts the image….

Title: Workers of the World Unite Against Starbucks Author: Liza Featherstone, The Nation. Posted May 21, 2007.

Intro:

When you pay $4 for a cup of coffee-flavored foamy milk at Starbucks, part of what you’re buying is an illusion of environmental responsibility. How they treat their workers is a different story.

First Paragraph:

Last week Starbucks faced legal and political trouble from its own workers. On the third anniversary of the founding of the IWW Starbucks Union, baristas in Chicago marched into a shop and told the manager they were signing up. (Starbucks workers have chosen to organize without government-mediated elections, through an interesting model called “solidarity unionism.”)

Link:

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/52146/