Category: The Service Worker

Midwood Smokehouse, like many other restaurants, was affected by the Border Patrol Operation known as “Charlotte’s Web”, a nearly 3 week constant attack on Charlotte’s Hispanic communities. Several workers in the back of house stayed home out of fear of being affected by the raids, both at work and during their commutes. The raids coincided…

The major tasks of the Organization of Class-Conscious Service Workers, and the New Labor Organizing Committee at large, take on the struggle against lay-offs and the worsening of working conditions. These issues directly stem from the deteriorating economy, and as the contradictions between the working and ruling class heighten nationally, so too will the contradictions…

By: The Organization of Class-conscious Service Workers (OCSW) Since Brian Niccol became the Chairman and CEO ofStarbucks, bargaining between SBWU and the company hascome to a standstill, with the new leadership refusing tocontinue bargaining. Since that time, there has been all sortsof talk of the upcoming SBWU strike response to once andfor all obtain a…

Those of us that produced the paper “Barista’s Voice” began that work because, like all other Starbucks workers, we are overworked, understaffed, and underpaid. We chose to attempt to organize ourselves independently from SBWU because we upheld the anti-State Union position of the New Labor Organizing Committee, meaning that the existing unions are incorporated into…

Even if it might be easier for Flik to keep all current staff, they have been so shady about the account takeover process at every step that it is hard to trust what will happen. Take the latest one-on-one meetings with the higher-ups: the General Manager insisted that these meetings were not interviews and not…

Midwood Smokehouse is part of the larger FS Food Group chain which owns several restaurants described as “Food Concepts” in the Charlotte area. These are often restaurants found in the “trendy” neighborhoods of Charlotte, which are often the site of displacement of the city’s working class residents, or its more high-income neighborhoods. The working conditions at…