SCOOP NEW ZEALAND - A world first is happening in the heart of Auckland city, as multinational giant Starbucks faces a workers strike. At 2 pm the Starbucks on the corner of K' Road and Mercury lane will experience industrial ructions. The legal wild-cat strike is a public awareness raising event and the first action in the Unite workers union Super Size My Pay campaign.. . . The community-wide campaign is being launched around the fast-food industry to win a contract based on these demands as a first step to winning them for all low-paid New Zealanders. . . Internationally Starbucks has low union representation, with only 300 union members out of 80,000 workers globally. One third of these union members are in New Zealand.
"Starbucks workers start on $10 an hour, only fifty cents above the minimum wage ($9.50 is the minimum wage in New Zealand? American workers would be delighted - until they tried to rent an apartment by themselves, of course --Pete). Workers hours are not guaranteed and can, and have been, cut from 40 to 20 hours. In Australia, Starbucks workers earn almost $5 more per hour than their New Zealand workmates. We are only asking for $2 more per hour," he concluded.
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