ROC-NY Wins Major Victory for Restaurant Workers!
June 20th, 2008
On June 19, 2008, ROC-NY won one if its greatest victories for restaurant workers. After 2 1/2 years of organizing 250 workers in seven restaurants in one of the City's largest mini-empires (restaurant companies), they announced a victory that includes an agreement by a restaurant company to pay $3.9 million in stolen tips and unpaid wages, management training to ensure ongoing compliance with the law, changes in the restaurant company’s tipping practices, half hour lunch breaks for workers, extension of the preliminary injunction that protects involved workers from retaliatory firings, and a grievance procedure for all workers in the company. Through the campaign, workers have also won several promotions for workers of color and new company-wide sexual harassment and promotions policies, and reinstatement plus $200,000 in back wages for workers fired for retaliation.
WE HAVE TO THANK YOU, OUR SUPPORTERS, ALLIES, AND FRIENDS, FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT OVER THE LAST 2 1/2 YEARS. WE JUST CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT OF RESTAURANT WORKERS.
Here is the New York Times article about the victory:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/nyregion/19wage.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin
And Crain's: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080618/FREE/435733274
And Air America's GRITtv ! ) http://blip.tv/file/1059015/