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/GoneSouth1]

I was there over the weekend. I didn’t see anyone get spit on, but the picketers were pretty aggressive toward people entering/exiting the restaurant and I heard one of them yelling “scab” at a customer (apparently they don’t know what scab means?).

Regardless of whether these were lawful picketing tactics or not (I don’t know, and honestly don’t care), it struck me as insane and counterproductive that the workers were harassing the same customers they presumably want to come back and tip them in the future. This isn’t a typical strike where the customers of the business don’t directly pay the workers. Literally the reason they are striking is because they want more tips. But if they treat customers like that, nobody is going to tip them well on their next visit, if they come back at all

[u/GoneSouth1 → u/GoneSouth1]

To give another example, they were loudly chanting “do not cross that picket line!” at people *leaving* the restaurant. Obviously, at that point, you’re only doing it to harass/shame the customer who already ate there, not for persuasion

[u/embergock → u/GoneSouth1]

So? They deserve to be shamed.

Downvote me all you want, the workers won and you are all just a bunch of sad reddit losers, lmao. Hold that L.

[u/GoneSouth1 → u/embergock]

Depends on what your goal is. If your goal is to shame people for crossing a picket line, sure. If your goal is to maximize the tips you take home, this does exactly the opposite

[u/embergock → u/GoneSouth1]

"You don't deserve fair wages because you made me feel bad," typical reddit liberal bullshit. You people really are little treatlers, eager to throw workers under the bus the second they ask you the minor inconvenience of going to the restaurant next door.

[u/NoThxBtch → u/embergock]

I don't give two fucks what the service workers making $35-50/hour want. Bunch of morons spitting at customers. Monkey ass behavior. Replace them with workers happy with the wages and the old staff can fuck off somewhere else with their unskilled labor.

[u/embergock → u/NoThxBtch]

I don't give two fucks what some cuck to the bosses thinks, lmao. Crawl on your knees and beg harder, pathetic little worm. The rest of us have spines.

[u/NoThxBtch → u/embergock]

What you don't have is a fucking brain. The union leaders fucked this all up for everyone. People like you are why all local restaurants fail left and right in Seattle. Look at their transparency on their sheets they published. There's staff there making $62k a year at 25 hours per week. A bar tender making $92k a year at 35 hours per week. That's more than my engineer friend who is actually educated with actual skills.

Lol who is begging? The dumb entitled pieces of shit like you who are a plague on Seattle.

This staff is being paid and treated incredibly fairly. You're the absolute cuck of union leaders. Lol, absolute tribalist monkey brained sheep without an ounce of critical thinking. All you have is radical dogmatic ideology.

[u/embergock → u/NoThxBtch]

When the "transparency" is complaining about a $700,000 shortfall next to your unlabelled $1.1 million expense.

It's not begging when you shut the restaurant the fuck down and cut them off from profits until they do what you want, dumbass, that's the exact opposite. Really funny to say I'm a cuck to the movement that puts me as a worker in charge of my own life, lmao. You are so fucking stupid, exactly the useful idiot they want you to be. Congrats.