Restaurant Worker News

11/08/2025

On This Day In History (1985):

"A beer-delivery rig was set afire today as a strike-breaking trucker slept in the cab, waiting to take the cargo to a nearby market warehouse where union workers were picketing, police said.

'It appears to be strike-related,' police detective Ron Blyleven said. 'There's no doubt about that.'"

Negotiators in an often violent food workers strike against major Southern California supermarket chains recessed talks early today without nearing a...

11/08/2025

On This Day In History (1961):

"As of November 8th, forty-seven restaurants along Route 40 (thirty-five in Maryland and twelve in Deleware) had already agreed to desegregate - approximately half of the target establishments along the route. CORE officials declared a partial victory and commended the newly-integrated restaurants. Furthermore, they issued a warning that sit-ins and checks would continue; both to be sure integration was maintained in restaurants in which it had been established and to encourage the desegregation of restaurants in which it had not.

It is worth noting that the organization efforts put into the protest did not go to waste. Meeting as scheduled at Howard University, the Freedom Riders instead focused their efforts on the city of Baltimore, conducting a massive sit-in and picket demonstration there marking the beginning of a campaign to desegregate the city, which bore a resemblance to locations further south.

With about half of the restaurants and other establishments still segregated, The Route 40 Project was far from over, and the sit-ins would continue for quite some time. However, the project was ultimately successful and inspired many similar campaigns such as the Eastern Shore Project, which expanded the desegregation effort further along the coast, and the Freedom Highways campaigns, which pushed the Route 40 efforts further into the South, along US-1 and into Virginia and North Carolina. The success of the Route 40 campaign encouraged the leaders of the civil rights movements to continue and expand their efforts, and inspired confidence in all participants that a brighter future was within reach."

Goals Desegregate restaurants and facilities along Route 40, regardless of attire Wave of Campaigns U.S. Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s) Time period notes It is difficult to pin down exactly when the project began and ended, as it stemmed from and was very entangled with the Freedom Rides of the...

11/08/2025

On This Day In History (1948):

"On 8 November 1948, during a wildcat strike of New York City brewery workers, drivers at the Pabst Brewing Company in the city and Newark, New Jersey also walked out, almost completely shutting off the supply of Pabst beer, as well as Canada Dry soft drinks. They were demanding a $0.25 per hour pay rise."

11/08/2025

On This Day In History (1994):

" According to a report that appeared in La Jornada on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1994, signed by Ricardo Olayo, “About thirty ‘anarchist’ youths broke windows, computers and threw food and trash cans to the ground in the McDonalds located on Génova street in the “Zona Rosa” [a tourist and very upper-class area of Mexico City] as a protest against Proposition 187, which was passed yesterday (Nov. 8) in California....

“There were no attacks against clients nor against employees, although the misfits blocked entrance to the restaurant for about 10 minutes while they distributed propaganda against [California] governor Pete Wilson, and repudiating the xenophobic climate which has been set against foreign immigrants because of the proposition... "

Gustavo Rodríguez Young Anarchists Damage a McDonald’s in Mexico City’s Zona Rosa Chronicles of the Mexican “Scene” 1995 Translated by Todd Prane with...

11/08/2025

On This Day In History (1892):

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892_New_Orleans_general_strike

11/08/2025

Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department's case against "sandwich guy," the D.C. resident who chucked a Subway sandwich at the chest of a federal officer, finding him not guilty on Thursday after several hours of deliberations.

Sean Dunn, a former Justice Department paralegal, faced a single misdemeanor count after a federal grand jury rejected more serious charges over the incident, which took place in August.

Images of Dunn became a symbol of resistance to the Trump administration in Washington, with murals popping up on walls depicting a man throwing a sandwich, and with people placing sandwiches in the hands of giant skeletons for Halloween.

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11/08/2025

11/07/2025

On This Day In History (2013):

https://archive.iww.org/content/come-together-striking-starbucks-workers/

Industrial Workers of the World

11/07/2025

On This Day In History (1985):

"A sniper shot a strike-breaking trucker in the arm on a freeway at rush hour [November 7] night in what police believe was an escalation of violence in the strike of 12,000 truckers and 10,000 butchers against 7 supermarket chains.

Trucker Howard Brine, 44, of Vista, was hit by a 22.-caliber rifle slug as he drove an Alpha Beta rig south on Interstate 5 in Tustin about 6:25 p.m., Sgt. Mike Shanahan said.

'We don't know if (the sniper) was on the side of the road, in a car, or where he was,' Shanahan said. 'The traffic was not moving very fast and he made a very easy target with a clearly marked truck. We believe it was related to the trucker's strike.'"

Negotiators in an often violent food workers strike against major Southern California supermarket chains recessed talks early today without nearing a...

11/07/2025

On This Day In History (1969):

"On 7 November 1969, about 250 of the 275 full- and part-time cafeteria workers, now members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union, went on strike against SAGA. At the beginning of the strike, the issues were much the same as before: pay, the hiring of black supervisors, and job reclassifications."

BSM members collect money to pay fines levied against those arrested for turning over tables in Lenoir; Photograph from 1970 Yackety Yack

11/07/2025

On This Day In History (1912):

"Ernest Riebe worked as a cartoonist for The Industrial Worker, a weekly newspaper published by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). His most famous work was Mr. Block. On November 7, 1912, Mr. Block first appeared in the Industrial Worker, a newspaper owned by the IWW, and the comic strip was also published in Solidarity for three years."

Ernest Riebe was a German-American cartoonist and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who was known for the slapstick humor he used in his comic strips. He is best remembered for his comics series Mr. Block.

11/06/2025

Unionized Starbucks staff are preparing to strike on November 13, aligning their action with the companys famous Red Cup Day, unless a labor contract is finalized. Starbucks Workers United revealed that 92% of its members voted in favor of the strike, calling for higher wages, better scheduling, and...