Peter RileyDec 9, 2024

Asheville 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.

Labor Notes
Peter RileyNov 15, 2024

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

https://ussw.org/actions/wafflehouse/

Waffle House Workers, At the Front Lines of Disasters, Demand More

The 24-hour chain famously stays open come hell or high water (inspiring FEMA’s Waffle House Index), but pays workers as little as $3 an hour.

In These Times
Peter RileyOct 31, 2024

https://popularresistance.org/waffle-house-workers-at-the-front-lines-of-disasters-demand-more/

#wafflehouse #serviceworkers #workingpoor #minimumwage #organize #Union of Southern Service Workers #USSW

Peter RileyAug 8, 2024

Thanks #Gainesville #Florida #Wobblies https://linktr.ee/iwwgnv
& @northumbriaIWW

#organize for a thriving wage #USSW
#GeneralStrike #union #solidarity

iwwgnv | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Industrial Workers of the World - Gainesville, Florida

Linktree
Peter RileyJun 11, 2024

“… 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

Waffle House Is Raising Servers’ Pay Across the Country

Waffle House plans to increase pay for servers at its restaurants across the country over the next three years, with some workers likely to see raises of a few dollars an hour.

Portside
Peter RileyMay 8, 2024

https://convergencemag.com/articles/organizing-the-south-we-look-back-to-move-ahead/

#education #organisation #solidarity #union of Southern #serviceworkers #ussw

https://ussw.org/

Organizing the South: We Look Back to Move Ahead

Taken together, the history, economy and ruling ideology of the US South make it difficult to build workers’ power. But armed with the lessons from the CIO’s Operation Dixie, and fueled by the…

Convergence
Peter RileyApr 24, 2024

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

Lawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds

No parole if you’re still profitable.

In These Times
Show threadsuchajazzylineNov 14, 2023

#WaffleHouse #WorkReform petition from #UnionOfSouthernServiceWorkers, not yet sanctioned by the Labor Relations Board.

https://ussw.org/actions/wafflehouse/

#USSW

Demands on Waffle House - Union of Southern Service Workers

with 24/7 security, an end to unfair paycheck deductions, and a fair wage from the iconic Southern restaurant. Sign our petition now.

Union of Southern Service Workers
AlembadelicJan 18, 2023
Very 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