Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Nov 2, 2025

“The purpose of the rat is a headline and you’ve helped them accomplish what they want to get.”

Let your staff unionise you Fash!

https://nypost.com/2025/10/29/business/scabby-the-rat-mascot-slashed-outside-reopening-of-iconic-nyc-eatery-babbo-sparking-cops-raid/

#ScabbyTheRat #NYC #UnionStrong #Babbo

'Scabby the Rat' mascot slashed outside reopening of iconic NYC eatery Babbo -- sparking cops' raid

“I’m sure any business owner would get pleasure in seeing the rat deflate,” said one former prominent restaurateur who’d once been the target of the rat.

New York Post
Columbus - FeedsJan 14, 2025
'Scabby the Rat' spotted at Columbus airport, sparks curiosity and commentary - Stephanie Thompson
Peter RileyJun 21, 2024

battle over Philly stadium wages

https://www.inquirer.com/news/fat-cat-aramark-union-strike-20240616.html

#FatCat #ScabbyTheRat #UniteHere #strike #union #Philadelphia #Aramark

In the battle over Philly stadium wages, Fat Cat speaks loudly while offering nary a ‘meow’

Unite Here union employed a whiskered inflatable to taunt Aramark, the giant, Philadelphia-based food-and-services company.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
samJul 6, 2023
from instagram: Always enjoy a good #scabbytherat sighting! (At the parking garage across from my doctor’s office on east 61st). https://instagr.am/p/CuW-CqAOmVT/
Show threadT. Thorn Coyle they/themMay 10, 2023

Meanwhile, The Guardian tells us that Scabby the Rat was not made in a union shop:

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/08/scabby-rat-union-labor-dispute-inflatable

#ScabbyTheRat

Scabby the Rat is an American labor icon. Why are his manufacturers disowning him?

The frightening character who appears amid US union disputes can be traced back to a single factory – which wasn’t unionized

The Guardian
Victorio_M (He/Him)Feb 9, 2023

Scabby sees what you do, and doesn't approve.

#ChaosPhotos #NYC #Manhattan #Brooklyn #TheBronx #Queens #StatenIsland #ScabbyTheRat #StreetPhotography #Photography #BlackMastodon #SupportArtists #BlackArtists #SupportBlackPhotographers

Josh KarpfDec 24, 2022
Scabby butt: unusual rear presentation of #Scabby the union rat; Financial District, NYC #ScabbyTheRat
Fuzzy NautilusNov 21, 2022
The Unstoppable History of an Inflatable Rat http://bit.ly/3OnUxkm #1U #Union #Labor #LaborHistory #ScabbyTheRat
The unstoppable history of an inflatable rat - The New School Free Press

As the part-time faculty strike began on Wednesday morning, an 8 ft. tall inflatable rat with a lengthy history in labor movements appeared on Fifth Avenue in front of The New School’s University Center. Meet Scabby, a massive, grotesque rat that watches over unionizers and protestors as they protest poor treatment of employees. Scabby’s origins… Continue reading The unstoppable history of an inflatable rat

The New School Free Press
August SpiesJul 3, 2019

NYC Scabby Protest Survives Court Challenge by Labor Board - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/nyc-scabby-protest-survives-court-challenge-by-labor-board

#ScabbyTheRat #1a #solidarity #unions

NYC Scabby Protest Survives Court Challenge by Labor Board

A rotating menagerie of inflatable rats and an inflatable cockroach can continue to stand outside a trio of Staten Island grocery stores as part of a union’s protest, a federal judge ruled.