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Showing videos filed under: restaurant workers
Diane Palmer & Sheila Cochran: Who Gets Hurt With Walker's Cuts
February 22, 2011If Scott Walker is allowed to gut public employees' right to collective bargaining, Sheila Cochran of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council points out, it will lower the floor for all Wisconsinites' wages and benefits. The unions in the state have long helped keep wages high and benefits, including health care, good for all of the state's workers, even as factories have closed and jobs gone overseas.Accidental Americans: Our Immigrant Labor Force
November 21, 2008How about a new comprehensive, humane plan for immigration? While president-elect Barack Obama acknowledges that the US economy depends on millions of undocumented workers living in the shadows, the issue of immigration reform has itself remained in the shadows. The question of how attitudes toward 11.9 million undocumented immigrant workers will or or won't change in a workplace of diminished opportunities for everyone needs to be called.Well, there are those withRestaurant Workers Unite!
July 8, 2008Laura Flanders interviews Sekou Siby, co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY), on their recent victory: a $3.9 million settlement in a lawsuit filed against the Fireman Hospitality Group of New York, which owns Redeye Grill, Café Fiorello, and the Brooklyn Diner among other restaurants in the city. The suit alleged wage violations, stolen tips, and retaliation against workers who challenged their employers. Find out here how they did it and what it means.
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