Restaurant Workers' Voice
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A History of the Union Campaign at Lodi
75% of Lodi workers signed cards saying that we want a union.
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Labor and the Political Scandal in LA
What emerges from the scandal—three leading Democrats and a top labor bureaucrat caught in the act of racialized scheming regarding LA's redistricting…
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Why The Bear? A Commentary
Many have commented as well on The Bear’s commitment to reproducing details of restaurant life as if recounting an esoteric lore; the terminology, the habits…
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Politician Hits Delivery Worker with Car and Flees the Scene
From Jersey City, we have a news story that exemplifies the everyday violence committed against workers while we are going about our lives and trying to make an…
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On the Recent Starbucks Campaign
It was just five months ago when workers at three Starbucks locations in Buffalo cast their votes on whether or not they wanted to be represented by Starbucks…
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On the 1912-1913 Restaurant Strike Wave
The history of the labor movement holds great lessons for the working class, which is why we must sum up its key episodes in light of our current tasks.
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Restaurant Workers Need Paid Sick Leave
\"Paid sick leave\" is the right of workers to both job security and continued pay when we get sick.
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NYC City Council and Bureaucratic Unions Sign Away Worker’s Right to Strike
Not long ago, the president of the bureaucratic and anti-worker RWDSU, and the New York City Council took to the press to congratulate themselves on a historic…
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Marching in Place
We must reject both the fake-optimism of the officials and the resignation that has set in after nearly two years of death and disease.
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On Wages and Inflation
Very recently, for the first time in history, average pay for workers in supermarkets and restaurants nationwide climbed above $15 per hour, in part due to the…
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The Struggle of Undocumented Workers Is Every Worker's Struggle
Anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant knows that the working class of the United States is an international working class, composed of people from all over…
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With Reopening, the Crisis Is Just Beginning
With Phase II of reopening beginning Monday, June 22 in New York City, which allows for outdoor seating restaurants, de Blasio has predicted that up to 300,000…