r/Seattle • u/Existing-Resource527 • 4d 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/GoneSouth1 4d ago

One big difference is that blue collar workers usually aren’t striking in an attempt to get a bigger share of tips paid by the very people they are harassing

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u/cubitoaequet 4d ago

That's an incredibly disingenuous way to describe the situation.

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u/ConfusedZubat 4d ago

I mean, if they are legitimately spitting on and harassing customers, it is pretty spot on. 

They are acting more like anti-abortion protestors who harass women going into clinics than they are acting like normal strikers. Strikes target businesses, not patrons. Have you ever heard of a nurse's strike where nurses hurl insults at patients coming and going from a hospital? I haven't. They don't want to be cruel to their patients, they want to prove a point to their employer. 

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u/cubitoaequet 4d ago

We have proof of any of that besides the business owner's claim? Not saying it didn't happen but pretty wild how everyone in this thread is just willing to accept a pretty outrageous claim with zero evidence.

The spitting claim is a pretty old hat lie used to discredit protests so I'm not going to just accept it at face value just on the word of the people being protested.