Restaurant Worker News

12/25/2025

On This Day In History (2024):

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Culinary Workers Union Local 226

12/25/2025

On This Day In History (1915):

"FOOD RIOTS IN CHEMNITZ

SOCIALISTS ARRESTED

(From Our Special Real esentatlve)

LONDON, Tuesday Morning.

Serous food riots took place at Chemnitzon Christmas Day. A procession of womon marched to the Town Hall, crying out for
cheaper food.

They broke windows and defied the soldiers, but tho cavalry drove them back, injuring 11. Nine socialists from Stuttgart and Karls ruhe, In Germany, among them three women, havo been arrested on high treason charges. They will be tried at Leipzic about the mid dle of January.

A report from Zurich states that according to a message from Berlin the churches wero crowded on Christmas Day with congregations of women, many of whom were weeping.

The general German sentiment is: "We are ready for peace, but if necessary we are ready to continue tho struggle."

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/221927127

12/25/2025

On This Day In History (1831):

"The Baptist War was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves in the Colony of Jamaica. The uprising was led by a black Baptist deacon, Samuel Sharpe, and waged largely by his followers. The revolt, though militarily unsuccessful, played a major part in the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire. It is also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_War

12/25/2025

On This Day In History (1521):

"The 1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola took place around the time of Christmas festivities in 1521. It is the earliest recorded slave rebellion in the Americas. Just days after the rebellion, the colonial authorities introduced a set of laws to prevent another uprising. These are thought to be the earliest surviving laws created to control enslaved Africans in the New World.

There is some disagreement by historians on the precise date of the rebellion. Some historical sources state the rebellion took place on the first or second day of Christmas. Contemporary historians generally mark the anniversary of the rebellion as December 25 or 26th, other sources mistakenly call it the "1522 slave rebellion".

The rebellion started on the Nueva Isabela sugar plantation (located today in the northwestern outskirts of Santo Domingo city[3]) owned by the colony's governor Diego Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus. The text of 1522 slave laws describe that a "certain number" of slaves "agreed to rebel and rebelled with intention and purpose to kill all the Christians they could and to free themselves and take over the land."[1] The historical documents present the uprising as well-planned and coordinated action. Local oral tradition says that the rebellion was led by Maria Olofa (Wolofa) and Gonzalo Mandinga, a romantic couple, both Muslims from the Wolof nation."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1521_Santo_Domingo_Slave_Revolt

12/24/2025

12/24/2025

12/24/2025

Windmill mushroom workers have been subjected to intimidation retaliation and firings. Now they will finally get their day in court as WA Supreme Court agrees to hear their appeal.

Read the press release. Link in bio or: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/15/2358541/-BREAKING-WA-Supreme-Court-to-Hear-Sunnyside-Mushroom-Workers-Case?_=2025-12-15T10:31:12.000-08:00

12/24/2025

On This Day In History (2024):

SBWorkersUnited

Iowa City Starbucks employees are protesting 'paltry' wage increases and criticizing the new CEO's generous pay.

12/24/2025

On This Day In History (2024):

SBWorkersUnited

Starbucks Workers United urged customers and allies to boycott the company for the duration of the actions.

12/24/2025

On This Day In History (2005):

"On Christmas Eve, 24 December, an ecumenical religious service took place with the participation of high-ranking Protestant, Catholic and Muslim clergy.

Following the service, the strikers had a day off while the NGG kept the picket going and a group of about 25 supporters who were gathered on the access road successfully blocked delivery vans driven by strike-breakers from reaching the runway.

Five planes reportedly took off that afternoon without food on board."

THE Gate Gourmet workers on strike at Düsseldorf airport continued their picket throughout the year-end holiday season supported by their union, the NGG, their families, friends and hosts of well-wishers, unionists and other activists who continue to visit the strike shelters bringing support and e...

12/24/2025

On This Day In History (1970):

"On December 4 federal marshals arrested Chávez and, for the first time in his life, César Chávez was put in jail. Two days later, he was visited in the Monterey County jail in Salinas by former Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete Rafer Johnson and Ethel Kennedy, widow of slain Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy and Johnson were attacked by an anti-union mob on the steps of the jail, and only intervention by city police, Monterey county sheriff's deputies, and the Brown Berets prevented a riot and injury to the visitors. Chávez was released by the Supreme Court of California on December 23, but the next day called a strike against six additional lettuce growers.

The bitter strike ended on March 26, 1971 when the Teamsters and UFW signed a new jurisdictional agreement reaffirming the UFW's right to organize field workers."

UFW

The Salad Bowl strike[1] was a series of strikes, mass pickets, boycotts and secondary boycotts that began on August 23, 1970 and led to the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history.[2] The strike was led by the United Farm Workers against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The Salad Bowl...