Showing videos filed under: Sekou Siby

• Restaurant Workers Unite!

  July 8, 2008

  Laura 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.

  • cooks
  • fireman hospitality group
  • labor
  • Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
  • restaurant workers
  • Sekou Siby
  • Siby
  • stolen tips
  • the service economy
  • tips
  • waiters

• The Obama Obsession, Restaurant Workers Unite, and Afro-Punk

  July 7, 2008

  Tonight on GRITtv our weekly media roundtable looks at Obama's position on Iraq, the G8 Summit, Rush Limbaugh, and Jesse Helms. An interview with Sekou Siby director of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY), on their recent victory. And a conversation with James Spooner, a punk rocker cum documentarian whose exploration of his own identity led to the making of Afro-punk.

  • Afro-punk
  • Afro-punk festival
  • BAM
  • CJR
  • Columbia Journalism Review
  • El Diario
  • Erica Gonzalez
  • Gonzalez
  • Hamm
  • James Spooner
  • Justin Peters
  • Live From Mainstreet
  • Peters
  • Restaurant Opportunities Center of NY
  • ROC-NY
  • Sekou Siby
  • Siby
  • Spooner
  • The Brooklyn Rail
  • The New Blue Media
  • Theodore Hamm