Restaurant Worker News

10/20/2025

On This Day In History (2024):

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https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/grilld-hit-with-australias-first-ever-fast-food-strike/zw3tlraqe

10/20/2025

On This Day In History (2019):

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https://www.oregonlive.com/galleries/YSFBEXPRBRGSDAUAKGTOPJSKUA/

10/20/2025

On This Day In History (1984):

"A bitter, two-month strike against the Old Original Bookbinders, one of Philadelphia's best-known eating establishments, ended Wednesday night with the return of 150 waiters, waitresses and other workers. About 90 members of Local 301 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union walked out Oct. 19 in a dispute over health benefits, and about 60 bartenders and kitchen workers, members of Local 274 of the same union, walked out in support of the waiters. Raymond Turchi, president of Local 301, said today that ''management had thrown in the towel'' after losing about $1 million."

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10/20/2025

On This Day In History (1960):

"On October 19, COAHR [Committee on Appeal for Human Rights] resumes large demonstrations and sit-ins, this time targeted at eight of Atlanta's segregated downtown stores. In addition, hundreds of AUC students picket an Atlanta police station to protest previous arrests and general mistreatment of Blacks by the cops. A small number of whites from Emory and Georgia Tech also protest segregation. In all, 52 protesters are arrested and charged with “Trespass” and “Refusing to Leave Private Facilities.” Fourteen of those arrested refuse to post bond as part of a “Jail-No-Bail” strategy to intensify the struggle.

Rich's Department Store is the flagship emporium of the downtown business district, and it becomes a primary sit-in target. The students ask Dr. King to join them in sit-ins at Rich's restaurants, including the upscale Magnolia Tea Room on Rich's 6th floor. Though reluctant to be arrested due to legal troubles stemming from his Movement activities in Alabama, Dr. King participates and is hauled off to jail with the students. In solidarity with those following the “Jail-No-Bail” strategy, he refuses to post bond and remains imprisoned."

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10/20/2025

On This Day In History (1960):

"On October 19, 1960, 52 individuals, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., were arrested in downtown Atlanta, after refusing to leave their seats at segregated department store lunch counters. Under the heavily enforced Jim Crow segregation laws and customs in Atlanta at the time, Black and white people were required to use separate water fountains, bathrooms, ticket booths, and other public spaces. In addition, Black people were banned from being served at department store lunch counters."

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10/20/2025

On This Day In History (1907):

"On 19 October 1907, the first issue of the anarchist newspaper Solidaridad Obrera (Workers' Solidarity) was published by workers’ societies in Barcelona. The societies aimed to achieve economic demands and reduce working hours, and eventually emancipate the working class from the capitalist system. It was a weekly publication and boasted four pages: it carried the sub-title “organ of the workers’ societies” and cost 5 céntimos a copy. In addition to strictly news items, there was evidence even at this early stage of articles dealing with matters of tactics and organisation. This new paper soon came to be known popularly as simply Soli. When the workers’ societies came together to form the anarchist labour union, Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Soli became its most popular organ. It was banned or had its offices shut down several times, including by the Rivera dictatorship in the 1920s, by the Republic in the 1930s, by the Communist Party during the Spanish civil war and by the dictatorship of general Franco subsequently. But it grew to become the highest circulation newspaper in Spain, and continues, albeit with a much smaller circulation, today."

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10/18/2025

On This Day In History (1968):

"The “Beer-In,” or “Drink-In,” occurred on Oct. 18, 1968, when ASCSU President Doug Phelps and other student protesters committed civil disobedience by drinking beer in the Student Center, at a time when alcohol was prohibited by campus policies.

According to coverage in the Rocky Mountain Collegian at the time, students were lobbying to allow 3.2 percent beer to be served in a student center coffee shop that had been renamed the “Ramskeller” in a student contest that year. Two months after the “Beer-In,” on Dec. 11, 1968, the State Board of Agriculture voted 4-3 to allow the sale of 3.2 beer in the student center. And the following year, the Fort Collins City Council approved the beer sales license that permitted the Ramskeller to begin serving beer on May 2, 1969. The developments also contributed to ending prohibition in Fort Collins, where only 3.2 beer could be served at the time."

10/18/2025

On This Day In History (1948):

"On 18 October 1948, three United Brewery Workers officials in New York City were booed off stage when they tried to address a meeting of wildcat striking brewery workers at the Brooklyn Labour Lyceum. Union members had insisted they would not listen to union as unless they agreed to speak with the steering committee set up by the strikers themselves. Nearly 3,000 workers at 12 of the city's 14 breweries had walked out 5 days previously in protest at the union-sanctioned dismissal of 21 drivers. 70 taverns in Manhattan had by this point run out of beer."

10/18/2025

On This Day In History (1526):

"On this day, 18 October 1526, a chain of events were set in motion which would soon lead to the first recorded rebellion of enslaved Africans in what is now the continental United States.
Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón, a wealthy Spaniard from Santo Domingo (now in the Dominican Republic) earlier that year headed to the North American mainland with around 500 Spanish men and women, 100 enslaved people and numerous horses, doctors and priests. After some sailing mishaps, he eventually landed and established a settlement by a river – probably the Sapelo Sound in modern day Georgia – which they called San Miguel de Gualdape. The enslaved people were then ordered to build homes. The settlers had missed planting season, and so were very short on food, and were also being ravaged by various diseases.
On 18 October, Ayllón died from an unknown illness. His designated successor was in Puerto Rico, and so a struggle for power broke out between two rival aristocrats.
In November, with the colonists in chaos, the enslaved people rebelled, set fire to homes and fled to Native American villages and lived among them. One group of settlers attempted to move into a nearby Native American village as well and take their food. But the Indigenous people apparently soon ran out of patience, and after feasting with the settlers for several days, eventually killed them all one night. The surviving 150 Spaniards fled later that month.
Conversely, the formerly enslaved Africans, continued to live with the local Indigenous people who "welcomed them in as sisters, brothers and family", according to historian William Loren Katz."

10/17/2025

Workers at a Waffle House in Orangeburg, began a four-day strike on October 12, 2025, organized by the Union of Southern Service Workers.

They demand an end to mandatory $3-$3.15 meal credit deductions from paychecks and better working conditions, citing customer harassment and inadequate management response.

Also a $25 an hour pay rate.

The strike involves picketing at 1995 Five Chop Road. No public response from Waffle House yet.