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Sabo's is a community center unfolding. This new grassroots project is initiated by members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a worldwide labor union organized along industrial lines. Sabo's Infoshop was housed within the Mosaic Collaborative. The whole idea was to have a place where the community could come together to display their passions and begin to 'build the new society within the shell of the old' which is a part of the IWW preamble. The building was then bought by our former landlord by a local hippie, bohemian, beatnik, etc.. So we rented from him and attempted to maintain our same goals. It didn't last though as he is a capitalist pig So, as members of the literature committee of the local IWW branch, we are looking for a new location where we can continue to keep - 'Puttin' the Social Back in Socialism.'..

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The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system."It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.

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My Blog

Starbucks Fires Grand Rapids Barista for Union Activity!

Grand Rapids firing comes in the midst of Unfair Labor Practice charges being investigated by the NLRB against Starbucks. Grand Rapids, MI (06/06/2008)- Starbucks terminated a barista active in ...
Posted by Sabo's on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:21:00 PST

Check out this event: Global Day of Action Against Starbucks!

Hosted By: cole dorseyWhen: Saturday Jul 05, 2008 at 4:00 PMWhere: Starbucks2757 East BeltlineGrand Rapids, Michigan|23 49546United StatesDescription:cole dorsey Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Sabo's on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:46:00 PST

Check out this event: MayDay Celebration with the IWW!

Hosted By: Sabo's InfoshopWhen: Thursday May 01, 2008 at 8:00 PMWhere: The Meanwhile1005 Wealthy SEGrand Rapids, Michigan|23 49506United StatesDescription:Sabo's Infoshop Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Sabo's on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:01:00 PST

Starbucks store accused of blocking union

Starbucks store accused of blocking unionFriday, September 28, 2007By Chris KnapeThe Grand Rapids PressEAST GRAND RAPIDS -- The National Labor Relations Board is expected to decide by today if it will...
Posted by Sabo's on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:10:00 PST

Starbucks: More Charges of Union-Busting (Business Week)

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/sep2007/ db20070921_624050.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessw eek+exclusivesby Moira HerbstThe labor troubles brewing for Starbucks in New Yor...
Posted by Sabo's on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:19:00 PST

Starbucks reputation on line in court case

Coffee giant accused of union-busting in New YorkBy John Sterlicchi in FloridaThursday June 7, 2007Guardian UnlimitedWhich Starbucks will step forward in a Manhattan courtroom next month? Will it be t...
Posted by Sabo's on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:35:00 PST

Legendary IWW returns to Grand Rapids

by Michael Johnston for the Grand Valley Labor NewsThey're twenty-somethings, idealistic, motivated and creative. In Grand Rapids they've been raised in anti-union, narrowly conservative and hyper-rel...
Posted by Sabo's on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:08:00 PST

More Trouble in Latte-Land

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=196455. .> Today Starbucks faced legal and political trouble from its own workers. On the third anniversary of the founding of the IWW Starbucks Uni...
Posted by Sabo's on Sat, 19 May 2007 11:21:00 PST

Percentage of Sbux Employees Covered by Company Health Care Decreased Over 2006, Early 2007

Percentage of Starbucks Employees Covered by Company Health Care Decreased Over 2006, Early 2007 New York, NY- The Starbucks Coffee Co., which has come under increasing criticism in recent months over...
Posted by Sabo's on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:07:00 PST

Grand Rapids endorsers of the Starbucks Workers Union

These people have signed on to endorse the campaign of baristas to organize with the Starbucks Workers Union for: Better Pay, Stable Scheduling, and Easier Access to More Affordable Health Care.To end...
Posted by Sabo's on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:24:00 PST