Starbucks fires union organizer

The AP reports:

Starbucks Corp. has fired the co-founder of a union claiming to represent employees at six of its Manhattan coffee houses.

Daniel Gross, a barista and organizer for IWW Starbucks Workers Union, a branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, said Monday that he is challenging his termination, which followed a company investigation into an allegation that he made a threatening remark to a district manager at a recent union rally.


Gross, who has led union organizing efforts at Starbucks for the past three years, countered that he was simply making a statement of solidarity when he told District Manager Allison Marx that a fellow employee should not be fired.

Gross, 27, said the IWW filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday alleging he was wrongfully terminated.

“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 in a phone interview from New York City on Monday.

Unions want to bother Starbucks which is considered a "progressive" company.I guess Starbucks doesn't want to deal with mobsters.