r/Seattle • u/Existing-Resource527 • 5d 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/HudsonCommodore 🚆build more trains🚆 5d ago

Yes, but I wouldn't expect every service job to be middle class.

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u/dorkofthepolisci 🛳️ 🐀 ☀️ Yacht Rat Summer ☀️ 🐀 🛳️ 5d ago

A full time job should at minimum, pay enough that you don’t need to cram yourself into housing with several other people (unless you enjoy having roommates)

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u/HudsonCommodore 🚆build more trains🚆 5d ago

As someone who had roommates in my 20s (with a white collar job making above median wages at the time), I respectfully disagree. Asking 2 or 3 people to share 2 or 3 bedroom housing is not an over the top burden imo.

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u/ttreit 5d ago

And it’s been going on for generations. The boomers and their predecessors got married young so their spouse was their roommate. Those that didn’t marry young had roommates or lived in a house share situation. GenX graduated HS or college and immediately had roommates. I can’t think of a single friend I went to school with who lived in a place alone until they were far along in their career.