Category: The Service Worker
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Let’s Unionize Subculture!
The service workers, and the service workers alone, have built what so many love about Subculture Group. Shouldn’t they make the decisions around here? Let’s be real: vaguely postured aesthetics can’t cover up the exploitation within the service industry. It is not the cookie-cutter establishment versus the hip counter-culture, especially not when assessing a multi-million…
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Some Thoughts on Tipping
Tipping seems to be an increasingly controversial topic. Simultaneously, more and more places are asking for tips, while the general population is much more attuned to labor struggles and the fight for a living wage. There must then, of course, be a class-conscious perspective on how to handle tips in the labor struggle. To begin,…
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Results of the SBWU Strike
The SBWU strike ended the only way that was expected: a complete failure. Despite all plans within the union pointing to a specific end date, SBWU nationally is either stuck in denial or purposefully obfuscating the truth, claiming that the strike is still going on in some places. This is, of course, entirely untrue. In…
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Interview on rampant wage theft, managerial harassment at Chicken Salad Chick
In response to reports of wage theft and managerial harassment at a Chicken Salad Chick restaurant in Johnson City, Tenn., we are publishing the following interview with two local rank-and-file workers, anonymized as Worker A and Worker B. We hope this interview can expose these issues and give guidance to other Chicken Salad Chick workers…
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Interview on rampant wage theft, managerial harassment at Chicken Salad Chick
In response to reports of wage theft and managerial harassment at a Chicken Salad Chick restaurant in Johnson City, Tenn., we are publishing the following interview with two local rank-and-file workers, anonymized as Worker A and Worker B. We hope this interview can expose these issues and give guidance to other Chicken Salad Chick workers…
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The Problems of Flik Won’t Just Go Away
Flik began their takeover of this account on December 12th, and since then it has had the same problems that have always been here: under-staffing, overworking, and lack of communication. On one hand, the new management is overbearing, authoritarian, and don’t support staff during rushes (not that they would be able to anyway, considering they…