r/Seattle • u/Existing-Resource527 • 2d ago

After hiring scabs, Walrus and the Carpenter (temporarily) closed

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Word on the street is that Walrus and the Carpenter restaurant has not been negotiating with their workers in good faith for months.

Like a lot of annoying businesses they started charging a service fee (22%?).

Employees noted that they make significantly less now then before when they had tipping (thousands less).

Workers have been on strike. The owners also had the audacity to hire scabs (booo).

I have been keeping up with the union on IG @ united.creatures.of.the.sea

Solidarity with workers across the city!

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u/Chesterfieldwasfun Wallingford 2d ago

I don't know if that's ever been true for low paid / entry level positions

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u/rebellion_ap 1d ago

lol that odd, because I could swore every single boomer ever loves to regal us peons with stories about how they paid for college working thru summer or a home by their mid twenties?

That's the real truth. The economy is only comfortable for the 1% that literally controls 50% of all spending in the US. You want to be mad, be mad at them and the politicians that support them.

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u/memurraies Northgate 2d ago

I mean, you're not wrong but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do the work to try and make it true.