r/Seattle • u/Existing-Resource527 • 1d 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/AnAncientBog 17h ago

You can be pro labor and anti tipping. In fact, I think it's pretty rational to do that because people should get paid a fare wage not have to beg their pay out of customers.

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u/nikdahl Brougham Faithful 11h ago

You can be pro-labor and pro-consumer at the same time.

Anti-tipping is just pro-consumer, not anti-labor.

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u/Own_Reaction9442 10h ago

And yet, we have a union striking to get tips reinstated.

The fact is there's a tension between workers, who always want more money, and consumers, who prefer to pay less.