Pavement Coffeehouse seems set to be Massachusetts’ first unionized café. Last week, just days after a unionization campaign went public, management issued a statement of neutrality and agreed to recognize […]
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“Again??” Patrick stormed into the kitchen, his face a shade brighter than the ketchup he was licking off his thumb, beads of sweat emerging from the pores on his forehead. […]
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An Anti-Racist Restaurant Industry As restaurant and service industry organizers it’s not only important but an absolute necessity to be forthright in our anti-racist politics. In order to see a […]
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Pride & Possibilities We work in restaurants because we need a paycheck. Some of us love the work and feel in our bones that this is our chosen trade. Others […]
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t’s been a rough, but enlightening, year. We’ve learned a lot about ourselves, our industry, our tolerance for BS, and what makes a workplace worth it. Better wages are in […]
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Restaurants and bars were flash points for the LGBTQ+ protest and uprising Private businesses open to the public have a long history as flash points for civil rights movements. Before […]
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by Jason Flynn Adriana Alvarez has worked at McDonald’s for 18 years, and despite the consistently poor working conditions had avoided filing any sort of official complaint for fear of […]
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by Natalia Tylim In March 2020 the Marriott Marquis in Times Square furloughed 1,200 workers due to COVID closures. Nine months later, in December, the corporation informed 852 non-union employees […]
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by German Lara, (he/him), Tongva land, Los Angeles CA I can recall the warehouses full of dust and mice. I was one of the new workers from the temp agency sharing […]
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The Restaurant Organizing Project held a national educational event on May 3rd in celebration of May Day. Restaurants are run by immigrant workers. The question of how labor interacts with […]
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