Starbucks Kicked Off Campus… Details Forthcoming
An ILR informant tells me that Starbucks has been kicked off campus for rescinding on an offer to an ILR student. Apparently Cornell’s policy is to kick off any company that does this. Anyway, details are forthcoming, but this is an interesting turn of events since one would think that the lawsuit that Cornell Organization for Labor Action (COLA) filed against Starbucks for their paranoid “union-busting” would have been the reason for the company’s being given the boot.
Seattle’s Best, the watered-down shitty coffee that the cafes currently serve, is part of Starbucks, and will have to be replaced by some other watered-down shitty coffee brand.
UPDATE:
“COLA (cornell organization for Labor action) had been trying to get Starbucks out of the cafes at cornell b/c of NLBA violations, anti-union activists, and poor treatment of growers especially those in Africa. Starbucks getting wind of theses actions started spying on COLA’s emails, but stopped when this spying got reported in the Wall Street Journal. COLA, further upset about this, intended to get Starbucks banned from recruiting for Human Resource positions at the ILR School. When COLA got a meeting with the woman in ILR who is responsible for approving companies to recruit in ILR, she showed COLA a letter saying Starbucks was being kicked off for rescinding on an offer for an HR position. Rumor has it Starbucks rescinded because of fear the student was working with COLA and/or sympathized with them, though this has not been proven either way. Also suspiciously, the head of HR for Starbucks, a recent ILR grad, has recently stepped down. The Career Service Office claims that their being kicked off is just because of rescinding on the offer and not the spying because the HR division at Starbucks was not the one doing the spying, though COLA believes this is mere pretext. It is not known if Starbucks is currently allowed to recruit with other schools at Cornell though they will not be allowed back into Ives Hall until 2009 at the earliest. “
