Burgerville Strike Spreads Into Second Store, Pickets Continue
Submitted on Wed, 02/07/2018 - 8:19pm
By Burgerville Workers Union - It's Going Down, February 4, 2018
Yesterday, fast food workers and members of the Burgerville Workers Union (BVWU), a part of the revolutionary anti-capitalist union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), launched a strike at the Burgerville USA chain in Portland, Oregon. Today, they announced that the strike had spread to yet another store. Below are updates from the Burgerville Workers Union social media accounts.
On February 2nd the union announced:
ANOTHER STRIKE! Today at 11:15 a.m. union workers at the 25th and Powell store delegated management and walked off the job on strike. Union members and supporters are out picketing the store now and have been providing pizza to Cleveland High School students and staff who’ve joined them on the picket lines! This is the second store to walk out in as many days, and wiith Convention Center workers on day two of their strike, this is now the largest strike in BVWU history! Convention Center workers: we got your back! Special thanks for the purple solidarity we received from SEIU 49!
The Burgerville Workers Union has been hard at work for months now to empower workers and organize a strike. Yesterday, we got to see all those hours of hard work and planning come to fruition after the walkout and strike performed at the Convention Center location. Now is the time for Burgerville Corporate to hear what we’ve been trying to communicate for years. As workers, we deserve better.
The union also reported on pickets that took place yesterday outside of the first Burgerville store that went out on strike:
We’re still out here! Carpenters 1503 now helping hold down the picket lines and they brought a friend! Normally we’re partial to Scabby the Rat, but tonight we’re celebrating the strike with Greedy the Pig! If you can’t make it out tonight, make sure to check out the pickets tomorrow and a rally in Holladay Park that’s not to be missed!
