Submitted on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 3:42pm
by Diane Krauthamer - February 3, 2008
Wouldn’t it be a real travesty to spend $50 on a wonderful
lobster dinner at New York City’s highest rated restaurant, only to
find out after your meal that the food was rotten?
Behind the scenes at New York City’s #1 rated restaurant
Of course, fine dining establishments must comply with health and
safety standards in their kitchens. Of course, establishments ranked as
NYC’s most popular wouldn’t dare serve rotten seafood. But there may
not be any rotten seafood at all—this is only on the surface. Something
happens well before the seafood even reaches the kitchen and it will
make you even sicker.
Submitted on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 3:35pm
Union membership rising
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the largest rise in the number of U.S.
workers belonging to labor unions in the last quarter-century. In 2007 the
rolls increased by 311,000 for a total of 15.7 million workers, despite a
decline in manufacturing jobs, particularly in auto.
Submitted on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 2:51pm
link: click here.
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
28:18
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Taming Wild Edibles
with
The Industrial Workers of the World
In addition to its own seafood restaurants, Wild Edibles' ware-house provides seafood to some of New York's most famous
eateries including Tavern on the Green and La Goulue. Yet, Wild
Edibles warehouse workers are laboring under illegal and
exploitative conditions.They have filed a class action lawsuit for
unpaid overtime and have joined a labor union, the Industrial
Workers of the World. Wild Edibles has responded with illegal
retaliation including firing nine of the workers. The I.W.W.
demonstrated recently outside one of the companyâs Midtown
restaurants in their campaign for workers rights at Wild Edibles.
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Submitted on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 1:25pm
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By Elizabeth Manapsal - Cornell Daily Sun, January 28, 2008
Companies are finding even more ways to screen job applicants — by
checking club discussion boards. Starbucks Corp., the nation’s leading
coffee retailer, is under scrutiny after a series of e-mails revealed
the company’s anti-union practices. The pinnacle of the events in
question came when Starbucks managers read through the discussion
boards on Cornell Organization for Labor Action’s website in order to
identify job applicants and current employees that were labor
activists.
In a series of e-mails uncovered by The Wall Street Journal,
Starbucks managers pulled names from the discussion board and then
cross-referenced them with an employee database. They found that three
employees were members of the University’s School of Industrial and
Labor Relations and active union supporters, and asked executives if
they could inform local managers of the workers’ identities.
Submitted on Thu, 01/24/2008 - 9:29pm
The Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG) recently confirmed that it has ceased buying seafood from Wild Edibles, a seafood company that
has been accused of violating several labor laws. The announcement comes just
a week after La Goulue decided to drop Wild Edibles, making the USHG the
third restaurant group to drop the company. Pastis and its associated
restaurants were the first group to do so, back in September.