Marcus "MajorLinux" SummersShoutout to the USSW!
The Future Belongs to Workers: An Animated Story
Peter RileyAsheville Food & Beverage United /
Union of Southern Service Workers
https://labornotes.org/2024/12/hurricane-ruins-north-carolina-food-workers-organize-and-fight
#foodworkers #organize #mutualaid #northcarolina #solidarity #asheville #unions #AFBU #USSW
In Hurricane Ruins, North Carolina Food Workers Organize and Fight
Twenty-one days without running water. A week before any cell service or internet. Hospitals closed, and thousands of houses swept away. Not long after developers started trumpeting the city of Asheville, North Carolina, as a “climate haven” from coastal storms, the area experienced catastrophic flooding. Upland Tennessee and North Carolina were the hardest hit by Hurricane Helene on September 27. For restaurant workers, the crisis is still getting worse, says Miranda Escalante, a hotel bartender and co-chair of Asheville Food & Beverage United, an organization of restaurant workers.
The Union of Southern Service Workers filed a #wagetheft complaint in September 2024 alleging #WaffleHouse paid the tipped subminimum wage for work like dishwashing that could not earn tips.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/waffle-house-hurricanes-workers-union
#labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #USSW #hurricanes
Thanks #Gainesville #Florida #Wobblies https://linktr.ee/iwwgnv
& @northumbriaIWW
#organize for a thriving wage #USSW
#GeneralStrike #union #solidarity
“… workers at 2000 locations base pay would reach $5.25 per hour in two years; $6.25 in two and a half years; or $7.25 in three years. “
Waffle House is a $4 billion company. Its Chair, Joe Rogers Jr., is worth $1.7 billion.
https://portside.org/2024-06-10/waffle-house-raising-servers-pay-across-country
the tipped wage floor will jump by about $3/hour, to $5.25.
https://www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/a-major-win-for-labor-in-the-south
#WaffleHouse #USSW #union #serviceworkers #FightForAUnion #workingpoor #minimumwage
Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to #Meatpackers, #McDonalds (No parole if you’re still profitable.)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/alabama-slavery-prison-labor-incarcerated-company-exploit-capitalism-lawsuit
Photographs: Guards supervise a group of convict-lease prisoners in Birmingham, Ala. & Convict-lease prisoners at the Banner Mine in Alabama.
Source: BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
#FightLikeHell book cover
#alabama #capitalism #exploitation #prisonlabor #USSW #RWDSU #union
#inthesetimes #kimKelly
suchajazzyline#WaffleHouse #WorkReform petition from #UnionOfSouthernServiceWorkers, not yet sanctioned by the Labor Relations Board.
AlembadelicVery invigorating and honored to get to march with comrades in the Charleston Martin Luther King Jr day Parade. It's always a great parade, and it was exciting to see the crowd revved up by our pro-Union, pro-Worker chants. #charlestonDSA #MLK #USSW #activism #endcapitalism #poorpeoplescampaign
