Category: The Service Worker
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Mobilize to Face Flik Corporate Takeover
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…
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Midwood Smokehouse and the Southern Service Industry
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…
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Starbucks Strike Committee Platform
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 contract with the company. Of course, strikesare the…
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Flik To Replace Eurest End of December
Recently, employees at the bank headquarters in RI have been told that, starting on December 23rd, the contract for Eurest will be dropped and replaced with another subsidiary of Compass Group- Flik. The General Manager has seemingly gone to everyone individually to tell us all the same thing: that everything will stay the same, except…
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We Must Organize As One
Our successes and failures of labor organizing in the service sector have revealed many hard-won truths about the industry’s conditions. As an example from New England, many useful lessons can be drawn from the work done at Maruichi, a small New England Japanese grocery/cafe chain that a labor activist with the Organization of Class-Conscious Service…
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Running on a Skeleton Crew: Eurest, September 2025
We lost 2 workers at coffee bar: one who had put in two-weeks notice and one who hadn’t, and the reasons were of course to do with the dysfunctional way this place is run. They gave us a replacement supervisor, but instead of a barista that also focuses on orders and running day-to-day stuff, she…