All workers except agricultural and fishery workers, engaged in producing and processing food, beverages, and tobacco products.
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 - 3:11pm
Linchpin #2 (Canada)
The history of the working class is a history of remarkable innovation and constant renewal. Whenever the bosses think they have buried forever the threat of workers' revolt, workers find, time and again, the means to fight back. Today, the recent blooming of resistance among workers in the low-wage service-sector is one important sign of a renewed struggle against the bosses and their system, writes Lucian.
For decades companies in the service - sector, whether they be giants such as Wal-Mart or smaller locally-owned businesses, have been able to hyper-exploit workers imposing low-wages, irregular schedules, temporary work, unsafe working conditions, harassment and discrimination while racking in super-profits.
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 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.
Submitted on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 9:21pm
By Stephanie Basile, January 15, 2008
An NLRB judge recently ruled in favor of the IWW in the case of
13 workers who were terminated from EZ Supply last winter. The workers
were ordered to be reinstated and paid backwages. The amount of
backwages is to be determined at a compliance hearing that will take
place in the near future.
Throughout 2006, the IWW had multiple bargaining sessions with
EZ Supply Corp. In December of that year, the company changed its name
to Sunrise Plus and fired the IWW members from the shop. The judge’s
decision concluded that Sunrise Plus was an alter ego EZ Supply and
that the workers were fired due to union activity.
