Category: The Service Worker

The ordering at Eurest has always been bad- we are almost always out of something, I think we’ve been out of at least one thing every week since I started. But the general manager got in a screaming match with the client, and while Eurest doesn’t fire managers (just demote them or move them to…

The five-day Starbucks Worker’s United strike leading up to Christmas ultimately closed down operations at 170 stores out of the 290 that went on strike. SBWU represents now 540+ stores out of Starbucks’ over 17,0001. Regarding the impact of the strike in this small fraction of 1% of stores, Sara Kelly, executive VP and CPO…

Brinker International operates over 1,500 Chili’s Grill and Bar restaurants in 28 countries and brings in several billion dollars in revenue every year. In the United States we find Chili’s operating in 49 of the 50 states unsurprisingly distributed quite unevenly (the plurality operating in Texas where the brand was founded). In New Mexico we…

Class frustrations result in infighting at Dunkin’ I work for Dunkin’ as a crew member. Like every food service crew, the workers at my location are understaffed, underpaid, and overworked. Most of us work crazy hours in a stressful environment for no holiday pay, no paid time off, no sick days, no retirement plan, and…

Over the weeks since the publication of the first article, cafe workers at Maruichi came together to stand against the increasingly bad conditions of the store. Four long-standing employees took the correct position on the side of class struggle, choosing to not overlook injustice and to develop class solidarity by uniting around one small but…

Much attention has been paid to the Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) in the past few years since the first store in Buffalo NY voted to unionize in 2021. Since then, over 400 of Starbuck’s 9,000+ stores nationwide have voted to unionize under SBWU, representing around 10,000 employees, who Starbucks amusingly refers to as “partners.” This…