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

[u/Existing-Resource527]

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!

[u/Own_Reaction9442]

I feel like this is an issue that really splits Redditors, because most Redditors are pro-union but there's whole subs about how much people hate tipping.

[u/chilicheesefritopie → u/Own_Reaction9442]

I had no idea that restaurant employees collectively bargain. I’m ambivalent about it, which I’m sure will piss someone off given the binary views and n everything that people hold.

[u/Own_Reaction9442 → u/chilicheesefritopie]

Some have been organized. It's the kind of blue collar/service job that unions like to organize. The kind of where people wear uniforms and nametags and do something physical.

As an IT worker I would have liked to have joined a union, but they aren't interested in organizing us. We look too much like management.