#burgerville locations

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Burgerville Menu – Mouthwatering Beef Burgers, Tasty Halibut Fish

Burgerville is an American casual beef-slinger on the Oregon-Washington state border and was founded in 1961

[heedra]

i actually think the best regional burger place in terms of actual food is burgerville because that shit is really good and one time i stumbled out of a week of backpackping in the freezing rain on an infected foot into a warm burgerville location and proceeded to eat two deluxe burgers two large shakes and a whole lot of fries and its probably the best and most animalistic eating experience i've ever had. but dick's has 3-fucking-dollar burgers so you really can't argue with that.

[jestergal]

shout out to the trans catgirl sticker slap on a post at this Burgerville location

[burgersnake]

is Katsu Burger worth going to Washington for? I end up in south WA a couple of times a year, should i make a point to go there over Burgerville (our usual burger stop)?

Oh yeah if you get the chance you should try it for sure! They don't have all that many locations, but if you end up near one you should give it a shot. It's definitely my favorite burger place - I think it's real tasty obviously and it's unique too, they use breaded meat for their burgers. So even if you end up thinking it's mid or something, it'll be a new experience :3

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Gloria Jean’s Coffees Menu With Prices

Gloria Jean’s Coffees menu with prices may slightly vary according to your nearest location. The menu of Gloria Jean’s Coffees is taken from Chicago, US. We have updated the prices of Gloria Jean’s Coffees menu from 1st March, 2023 onwards. For the accurate prices, you might have to look for the menu of your nearest Gloria Jean’s Coffees outlet from its official website, android app, or iOS app, or any other food delivery app. Gloria Jean’s Coffee menu with prices offers American classics, nitro, coffee over ice, European classics, mocha chillers, and smooth espresso chillers. You can also order eggs and sandwiches, wraps, salads, and much more alongside the coffee. A good coffee at the restaurant will cost you $4. But this information is not enough. Find the menu with prices, franchise details, contact information and nutritional information. Before you proceed with the menu check out the history. Gloria Jean’s Coffees is an American-Australian coffee chain. It was founded by Gloria Jean’s Kvetko in 1979 in a small town near Chicago. Till then, the brand has managed to open more than 1000 coffee stores.

Gloria Jean’s Coffees Menu With Prices

Gloria Jean’s Coffee menu includes a wide selection of coffee drinks that are ultimate chocolate, mint chocolate bomb, mocha truffle, caramel mocha, and many more. Their best-sellers are cinnamon flavored coffee, chocolate flavored coffee, vanilla flavored coffee, and nuts and caramels flavored coffee. Besides coffee and beverages, Gloria Jean’s menu also include turkey dishes, grilled cheese, pastries, cakes, cookies, muffins and many more items. You will relish the other food items offered on the Gloria Jean’s Coffees menu like eggs and sandwiches, wraps, salads, and much more. One of the biggest reasons why people love to visit Gloria Jean’s Coffee is that you can work with no disturbance and the atmosphere is very relaxing and calm. On top of that, the menu prices of Gloria Jean’s Coffee are reasonable when compared to other coffee brands and lie between $3 to $8. Get familiar with the detailed list of Gloria Jean’s menu prices. Apart from the menu prices, find the important links to order your favorite food online from Gloria Jean’s Coffees. Fresh Brewed Menu With Prices Brewed Coffee$ 1.99Red Eye$ 2.59Hot Teas $ 1.99Americano$ 2.59Cafe Au Lait$ 2.59 Also, check out the official Braums menu with prices. Hot Classics Menu With Prices Cafe Latte$ 3.39Cappuccino$ 3.39Chai Tea Latte$ 3.39Hot Chocolate$ 3.09Espresso$ 1.79 Specialty Hot Lattes Menu With Prices Tuxedo Mocha$ 3.99Caramel Latte$ 3.99Creme Brulee Latte$ 3.99Caramel Turtle Latte$ 3.99Cafe Mocha$ 3.99White Chocolate Mocha$ 3.99Matcha Creme Brulee$ 3.99Madagascar Vanilla Latte$ 3.99 Also, read the complete Burgerville menu with prices. Iced Classics Menu With Prices Iced Coffee$ 2.99Cold Brew$ 2.99Iced Americano$ 2.99Iced Teas$ 2.99Iced Tea Lemonade$ 3.09Iced Latte$ 3.89Iced Chai Latte$ 3.99 Iced latte Specialty Menu With Prices Iced Cappuccino$ 4.99Iced Creme Brulle$ 4.99Iced Matcha (Unsweetened)$ 4.99Iced Crazy Coconut Chai$ 4.99Iced Caramel Coconut Macadamia$ 4.99Iced Mocha$ 4.99White Chocolate Mocha$ 4.99 Also, check out the official Salt and Straw menu with prices. Fruit Chillers Or Smoothies Menu With Prices Mango$ 4.99Strawberry Banana$ 4.99Raspberry Coco Flow$ 4.99Hawaiian Punch$ 4.99 Espresso Chiller Bar (Blended Ice) Menu With Prices Creme Brulee$ 4.99Mocha Java Voltage (Extreme- Coffee)$ 4.99Mint Chocolate Bomb$ 4.99Chocolate Caramel Turtle$ 4.99Caramel Coconut Macadamia$ 4.99 Also, read the full Blake’s Lotaburger menu with prices. Cookie Chiller Bar (Blended Ice) Menu With Prices Cookies’ N Creme $ 4.99Cookie Crumble (No-Coffee)$ 4.99White Chocolate Caramel Cookie$ 4.99 Also, check out the updated Heine Brothers’ Coffee menu with prices. Specialty Chiller Bar (Blended Ice) Menu With Prices Red Velvet Cookie$ 4.99Pistachio Creme $ 4.99Madagascar Vanilla Caramel$ 4.99Matcha Creme Brulle $ 4.99Chocolate Caramel Avalanche (No-Coffee)$ 4.99 Also, read the official Cherry Berry menu with prices. Extras Menu With Prices Shot$ 1.00Extra Shot$ 1.00Alternative Milk$ 1.00 Also, read the complete Cold Stone Creamery menu with prices. Loaf Menu With Prices Marble$ 3.00 Also, check out the latest Farrell’s Ice Cream and Restaurant menu with prices. Muffins Menu With Prices Chocolate Chip$ 3.00Banana Nut $ 3.00Blueberry Crumb$ 3.00Cranberry Orange$ 3.00 Also, check out the complete Bakers Delight menu with prices.

How To Order Online From Gloria Jean’s Coffees ?

You can order food from Gloria Jean’s Coffees by referring to their official website, android app, or iOS app, or any other food delivery app. To order food from Gloria Jean’s Coffees online, you can also refer some of the leading food delivery service apps like Doordash, Grubhub, Seamless, Postmates, and UberEats. We have shared the detailed screenshots that shows how to order food online from Gloria Jean’s Coffees. Finding The Latest Gloria Jean’s Coffees Menu With Prices Of Your Nearest Location 1. Open the UberEats and place the order online from Gloria Jean’s Coffees.

2. Add the location of any nearest outlet of Gloria Jean’s Coffees.

3. Once you add the location, the complete menu will be displayed.

Gloria Jean’s Coffees Nutritional Information

Nutritional Informationgloriajeanscoffee.com/nutrition To check the nutritional information of the items present on the Gloria Jean’s Coffees, you can visit the link mentioned above.

Gloria Jean’s Coffees Franchising Details

Gloria Jean’s Coffee has more than 1,000 coffee cafe locations in 39 locations in all over the world including 460 in Australia and it has more than 900 employees in their franchise and if you want to buy their franchise it is their cost. Name Of FeePricesInitial Franchise Fee$ 7,500 – $ 15,000Real Estate (Rent And Security Deposit)$ 6,000 – $ 15,000Leasehold Improvements$ 60,000 – $ 215,000Equipment, Furniture And Fixtures$ 61,000 – $ 143,000Signage$ 5,000 – $ 20,000Professional Design Fees$ 5,000 – $ 10,000Point Of Sale System $ 3,800 – $ 10,000Initial Coffee Inventory$ 2,400 – $ 6,000Other Initial Inventory And Supplies$ 4,500 – $ 6,500Grand Opening Fee$ 5,000 Training Expenses$ 3,500 – $ 8,000Miscellaneous Opening Costs$ 5,000 – $ 12,500Additional Funds (3 Months)$ 10,000 – $ 30,000Estimated Total$ 178,700 – $ 496,000 Royalty Fee6% Of Gross Sales

Gloria Jean’s Coffees Contact Information

Gloria Jean’s Co-operative Office Address: Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffees 14071 Stage Rd., Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 Gloria Jean’s Co-operative Office Phone Number: 1-877-320-JAVA Gloria Jean’s Co-operative Office Email: CustomerService@gloriajeans.com

Important Links 

Official Websitegloriajeans.com/Menugloriajeans.com/pages/our-menusAboutgloriajeans.com/pages/about-1

Social Media Handles

Facebook: facebook.com/GloriaJeansCoffee Twitter: twitter.com/gloriajeanscoffee Instagram: instagram.com/gloriajeanscoffee

Frequently Asked Questions Related To Gloria Jean’s Coffee

What coffee beans does Gloria Jean’s use? Gloria Jean’s Coffees source their own 100% Arabica coffee beans instead of exporting from anywhere else. What is Gloria Jeans known for? Gloria Jean’s Coffees is known for their best coffee flavors. Great coffee has been the driving passion for Gloria Jean’s Coffees since 1979. What is the best Gloria Jeans drink? Some of the most highly recommended coffees offered at the Gloria Jean’s Coffees are the sugar cookie latte, mudslide whole bean, and Irish crème.  Does Gloria Jeans have milk alternatives? Gloria Jean’s Coffees have an option to change the milk into soymilk to make your cup vegan ready. Image CreditsEconomictimes Zomato Commercialrealestate Read the full article

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Posted on August 26, 2022 by Colin M

The IWW is a union for all workers. It only makes sense that a union that advocates for the abolition of the wage system would blaze a path different from other unions. Over the decades, that path has sometimes been rough, but it’s made us what we are today.

Here are 8 things you probably didn’t know about that separate the IWW from other unions in the US.

1) IWW membership is not just a part of holding a certain job.

For lots of folks these days, the experience of joining a union comes from accepting a unionized job. Some of these unions have built strong communities among coworkers, some not as much. When people leave those jobs, they leave the union too. 

For IWW members, though, union membership is part of a commitment to our social vision. In this vision for a better future, labor is organized for the common good rather than for profit.

Being an IWW member also means connecting with a community that is united by our common struggle, outlook and tactics. We help one another learn how to organize for power on the job. We couch-surf for free with other members when we travel. We donate when one of our own is gravely sick or injured. We pay our respects to those who came before us, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our union.

2) The IWW helped set the trend of organizing in fast food.

During the early 2000s, the IWW had campaigns to organize Starbucks and Jimmy Johns.  Although these campaigns were not successful in terms of unionizing, the IWW gained very valuable lessons and experience.

Using some of those lessons, the workers at the Burgerville chain of restaurants, local to Oregon, organized with the IWW starting in 2015. Workers at Burgerville used tried-and-true direct action and solidarity union approaches to improve conditions drastically over the course of 7+ years and form the Burgerville Workers Union. The Portland-based BVWU is winning gains and looking forward to helping empower workers at Burgerville locations outside their area to get organized and united too.

Although workers at many other fast food chains have recently organized and won National Labor Relations Board ratification votes, notably Starbucks workers, none has forced their company to the NLRB bargaining table quite yet as of this writing. Many IWW members are eagerly looking forward to welcoming more fast food workers into organized labor.

3) The IWW regards the police as traitors to our class.

The institution of policing has a long history discussed in Our Enemies in Blue by Kristin Williams. Are they workers just like the rest of us? The IWW does not see it this way.  Even if there are some alright people out there working as police officers, the massive historical inertia of policing as an institution that enforces class and race divisions pushes it into alignment with the interests of the exploiting class.

As police and their proponents sometimes remind us, they don’t make the laws, they just enforce them. Those making the laws are, of course, our bosses, their investors, and others beholden to them.

With laws like these, the work of “law enforcement” means violently enforcing dispossession. Rather than being a “thin blue line between civilization and chaos,” as some imagine, the police are better thought of as the thin blue line between workers and the wealth we produce.

Our corporate media engages in constant propaganda efforts, often under the pretense of entertainment, to get workers to sympathize with the police and portray them as competent guardians of public safety. However, police do not really solve as much crime in real life as they do on TV shows.

Policing and prison both masquerade as instruments of the common good, but their oppressive nature is well-known to those of us who’ve experienced their violence personally.  With all this in mind, the IWW formally and concretely supports the abolition of police and prison.  To this end…

4) The IWW supports strikes by people in prison, and has an active membership inside US prisons.

Amid an increasing trend of prison strikes, IWW members founded the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) in 2014. It still exists today, and has provided outside support for two national prisoner strikes as well as countless regional and single-facility strikes.

US prison slave-labor is increasingly being used to undermine wages globally for non-imprisoned workers. Jobs that were once outsourced to sweatshops in other countries are now being insourced to prisons where wages can be even closer to nothing. In prison, workers can also be controlled by throwing “insubordinate” ones in solitary confinement, rather than merely firing them.

As the corporate state invests more deeply in prison slave-labor, even while mass incarceration faces increasing public scrutiny, IWOC is positioned to play an essential role in helping the most exploited organize for justice.

5) The IWW is also one of the only unions that organizes workers in the sex industry, including the “underground” sex-trade.

A core IWW principle is that all workers can and should benefit from collective organizing. This includes those who work in the commercial sex industry, either above or below ground. Just as nobody is better positioned to enact positive change in (say) the restaurant industry than restaurant workers, the same is true for the sex industry.

Many sex workers already self-organize for mutual safety.  It’s important for us to help people organize even when their line of work is illegal.  Keeping industries illegal is just one more way that bosses and their state seek to keep workers divided.  We won’t fall for it.  We hope that someday, a revolutionary union of sex workers will help abolish capitalism and de-commodify sex along with everything else.

6) The IWW has no professional or paid organizers. Our members are our organizers.

For all of living memory, it has been common practice for unions to employ workers as professional organizers to unionize other workers. The IWW does things differently, and some might say more traditionally. 

Before the legal institutionalization of unions in the US, the common practice was for every union member to take part in organizing. Nowadays that’s not as much the case. Why organize when they’re paying someone else to do that, right? One overall effect of this change has been for unions to be viewed as more like other social service organizations than working-class fighting formations.

In the view of IWW members, having “organizer” be a paid job alienates average workers from the role we must play in organizing. The Organizing Department handles logistics over wide geography. Our External Organizers program helps motivate and advise those who come to us seeking organizing assistance. Our organizer training program is superb and open to all workers. All this is accomplished with no more than determination, commitment and some very modest stipends for trainers.

7) Tom Morello and Noam Chomsky publicly support the IWW.

Tom Morello released a music video entitled “Hold the Line: Union Strong Edit” in 2021. Tom Morello has played many times at strikes and other members of Rage Against the Machine such as Zack de la Rocha are vocal about their support for international working-class solidarity.  

Nevertheless, it seems there are always people who associate Rage Against the Machine with being “cool,” but have no idea about their not-at-all-hidden politics.  Famously, when austerity hawk Paul Ryan became a candidate for Vice President in 2012 and cited Rage Against the Machine as his favorite band, Tom publicly replied in a now-famous Rolling Stone piece,“Paul Ryan is the embodiment of the machine our music rages against.”

10 years later, and it seems the number of people who know about Rage Against the Machine but not their explicit anti-capitalist politics is as high as ever.

Tom Morello and some friends also wrote the new Netflix original movie Metal Lords.

Noam Chomsky, for his part, is pretty much the predominant public intellectual in the US.  Along with becoming one of the most respected professors in linguistics, Noam Chomsky also penned the hit non-fiction book Manufacturing Consent, which was also made into a documentary film, analyzing the US corporate media as propaganda.

Besides revolutionizing the field of linguistics and being one of the most prominent public critics of US imperialism from inside the US, Noam Chomsky has also won enough awards to sink a small boat and authored well over 100 books and articles from the 1950s to today.

Noam Chomsky is also probably the best left-wing star of YouTube despite not being a YouTuber.  People have taken it upon themselves to make Chomsky channels for him, and videos featuring him regularly rack up views into the seven figures.  Here’s Rage Against the Machine’s lead singer, Zack de la Rocha, interviewing professor Chomsky about NAFTA.

8) The IWW does not participate in electoral politics.

IWW members do not see being part of a political party machine as a proper role for a union. Political parties can and do sell workers out, but they also pursue policies that workers are divided on. Some IWW members still vote and even volunteer or work on political campaigns, but it is understood that it is not the role of the IWW to take sides in a political system that is rigged in favor of our exploiters.

Throughout history, change happens first economically, then politically.  Supposedly favorable labor laws do not organize workers. Only fellow workers can do that.  In reality, nearly all labor policies are meant to achieve what is termed “Labor Peace.”  Labor Peace means work no longer being interrupted by upset workers.  In other words, Labor Peace does not mean peace for workers, it means peace for bosses.  The fact that policies aimed at securing Labor Peace involve concessions to workers is a result of organizing.  Not only does government policy aim at Labor Peace, so do many union contracts.  This is the purpose of “no-strike” and other “management’s rights” clauses in such contracts.

It’s natural for us, as workers, to want a better deal.  However, we can pursue gains today without giving up the goal of a fully democratic, worker-run economy tomorrow.  We won’t achieve that lofty goal by making political deals or passing new laws.  We can only achieve it by organizing where we are exploited and acting directly to take power back from our exploiters.

The governments we have are designed to grant us “political freedoms” while restricting access to the wealth that our labor produces.  As workers unite and reorganize the economy to abolish scarcity, more fair, free and equal political systems will also arise to settle disputes and look after the public interest.

If you are interested in organizing at work and working toward the abolition of the wage system, contact the IWW today. 

Featured image is from the IWW Materials Preservation Project. 1992 Queer workers at the July 1992 picket of End-Up Bar in San Francisco.

[gallusrostromegalus]

The Power Of Friendship (And This Gun I Found!)

Episode 6: The First Rule Of Any TTRPG is NEVER SPLIT THE PARTY

Please Note: This fic is marked 'Mature' for Graphic Depictions of Violence, and that warning continues to hold for this chapter.

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It’s My Fic and I Will Complain About the State of Ttrpg Miniatures Company Business Practices if I Want to

The Burgerville Incident

Sign Language Should Be Taught in Schools

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This Is What the Professionals Call “Networking”

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Another Meme

The Power of Friendship Is Open Source and Available for All to Use

A Cameo

Cliffhangers

Poor Boating Practices

and 2021, You Were One Of The Most Years Ever.

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The Card Says ‘Secret Admirer’

    “Are you sure this is where you want to go?”

    “Yes,” replied Eve Baird as the car pulled up outside the Annex door. This wasn’t the first time she got asked that nor would it be the last.

    The driver stared at her as she got out. “Are you sure,” he asked.

    “Yes,” she replied, “I like the quiet and enjoy having lunch out here.”

    Eve watched as the car pulled away. Next time, she thought, maybe I should just take the back door.

    The back door was a magic door that Jenkins came up with. It could take them anywhere in the world that has a door. They just twist some knobs on the old globe, open the doors, and they were there. It was fast and convenient, but when just going into town, it felt better to take a car. Made her feel more like a regular person.

    In fact, today, they all decided to head out for a while. Jenkins took the car and dropped them all off. He had a few errands to run himself and needed the car. He said he would pick them up when they were ready or set a door to their location. Eve decided to call a car instead. She didn’t always like using the magic door and even though Jenkins said he would pick them up, he would complain the whole time.

    Eve saw someone walking in the woods nearby, but couldn’t make out who it was. She waited until they were out of sight before heading to the Annex door. They didn’t need others nosing around the building. She always got on Jones every time had a pizza delivered.

As Eve got closer to the door, she noticed a package sitting next to it. She approached it carefully. Flynn or Jenkins probably had an artifact sent here from someone. These artifacts can be dangerous. She hated getting surprises like this. 

    After making sure the package was safe to move, Eve picked it up and took it inside. After putting away the things she had picked up on her trip to town, Eve took the package to the Annex. She sat it down on the table and plucked the envelope off the package. There was nothing written on it except for a drawn heart. No name, no address. Nothing to indicate where it came from or who it was for.

    At that moment, Jenkins walked into the room. “That is the last time I offer to take any of you anywhere,” he said.

    “Didn’t enjoy the ride,” asked Eve.

    “No way. First one of you wants to go here. Another wants to go there. Somebody wants to be picked up and taken somewhere else. That is it. Next time you want to go to town, drive yourselves or take the door,” replied Jenkins. He spotted the package on the table. “What is that,” he asked.

    “I don’t know,” replied Eve, “I found it by the door, outside, when I got back.”

    “Well, who is it from? Who is it for,” asked Jenkins.

    “I’m not sure. There is nothing on the envelope except a heart,” replied Eve, as she showed it to Jenkins.

    “So, it is not from you,” asked Jenkins. Eve shook her head no. “Well, I didn’t leave it,” replied Jenkins, “It must be from Mr. Carsen.”

    “What must be from me,” asked Flynn as he walked into the room.

    “Did you leave this package by the door for me to find,” asked Eve.

    “No, why would I,” Flynn Carsen said as he walked over to check it out.

    “I don’t know, because you love me and wanted to do something special,” replied Eve.

    “Sorry, sweetie. I meant to say I love you,” replied Flynn, “But I didn’t leave this.”

    “Uh, huh,” replied Eve quizzingly, as Flynn kissed her on the cheek.

    “Mr. Jenkins, where did you put my…” said Cassandra as she came into the room. She stopped when she saw the three of them standing around the Annex table. “What’s going on? Do we have a new case,” she asked them.

    Jenkins suddenly remembered when Cassandra had a crush on him. “Did you leave a package by the Annex door,” asked Jenkins.

    “A package? What kind of package,” asked Cassandra moving towards the table.

    “I found a package outside. There is a card, but the only thing on the envelope is a drawn heart. We don’t know who it is for, or who is from,” Eve replied.

    Cassandra looked over at the package. “I didn’t leave it,” she replied. “And none of you left it,” she asked the three of them. They all shook their heads no. “What do we do with it,” she asked.

    “I don’t know, maybe we should open the card? See what it says,” said Flynn. 

    Before any of them could answer the globe started spinning and the backdoor lit up. As the doors opened up, Flynn and the others could hear them arguing before seeing Jacob and Ezekiel walking into the room.

    “We said we were going to meet at Blue Bird Tavern,” said Ezekiel.

    “No, we said we were going to meet at Burgerville,” replied Jacob angrily.

    “No, we didn’t mate. I distinctly remember saying Blue Bird Tavern. We were going to grab a pint before we came back,” replied Ezekiel.

    Ezekiel and Jacob stopped when they realized the other four were staring at them. “What’s going on,” asked Jacob

    “What are you two arguing about now,” asked Jenkins, “I thought you were going to call when you were ready to be picked up, but you never did.”

    “Yeah, because Jones never showed up to the meeting place until I called to see where he was at,” replied Jacob.

    “No, you didn’t show up to Blue Bird Tavern, where we said we were going to meet,” replied Ezekiel.

    “We said Burgerville,” said Jacob. He and Ezekiel started arguing again.

    “Enough,” said Eve and they both stopped.

    “What is everybody doing in the Annex, anyway,” asked Ezekiel.

    “Why are you asking? Are you trying to hide something,” Flynn asked Ezekiel.

    “No, just curious,” replied Ezekiel and took a bite of the pizza he had in his hand.

    Flynn eyed Ezekiel for a moment. Eve broke the silence and said, “Anywho, I found this box outside. Did one of you two leave it?”

    Jacob and Ezekiel walked up to the table to look at the box. “I’ve never seen that,” replied Jacob.

    “Me, neither,” replied Ezekiel, “Who’s it for?”

    “We don’t know,” replied Eve. She held up the envelope and said, “There’s no name written on it. Just a drawn heart.”

    “Well, the only person I would send that to is myself,” replied Ezekiel. “But I didn’t,” Ezekiel said after noticing the weird looks from the others.

    Jacob rolled his eyes at Ezekiel. Then he held out his hand and said, “Can I see it?”

    Eve handed the enveloped card to Jacob. He looked it over while asking, “You found this outside by the door? Did you see anybody else when you found it?”

    Eve replied, “Yes by the door.” She thought about it for a second and replied, “Wait, I thought I saw someone walking through the woods, but I didn’t get a good look at them.”

    “Hmm,” said Jacob, “Somebody could have seen one of us in town and followed us back here. We aren’t always careful when we head out on the town.”

    “You’re right,” replied Jenkins, “We haven’t been careful, but that’s why we have safeguards to keep people out.”

    “So, what are we going to do with it,” asked Ezekiel.

    “I think we are going to have to open it to see who it is for,” said Eve.

    They all agreed. Then Cassandra asked, “Who’s going to open it?”

    They all looked at each other. Then Flynn said to Jacob, “Why don’t you open it since you are holding it.”

    Jacob said okay and then opened the envelope. He opened the card and glanced at it real quick. Then he turned to Cassandra and said, “I believe it is for you.”

    Cassandra took the card from Jacob and read it to herself. She smiled. 

    After a few minutes Flynn asked, “What does it say?”

    Cassandra looked up and read, "Cassandra, you are the smartest, most beautiful woman I ever met. I love your caring nature. I love that you try not to let people get the better of you but not afraid to tell them off. I have trust in you and I hope one day you would feel the same about me. For now I will cherish the moments we have together."

            Cassandra stopped reading the card. She looked up as Eve said, "do you spend a lot of time with people?"

             "I don't know. I do visit a lot of the same places when we go out and talk to some of the regulars and employees at those places," replied Cassandra.

            "Who does it say it's from," asked Flynn.

            "The card says, 'Secret Admirer'," Cassandra replied.

            "Someone wants to remain anonymous for now, that's interesting," said Flynn intrigued.

            "What's in the box," asked Ezekiel.

            Cassandra opened up the box. She reached inside and pulled out something wrapped in tissue paper. She carefully unwrapped the gift to reveal a stuffed cat dressed as a scientist. She smiled a slight smile.

            "Wow, that's so interesting," said Ezekiel sarcastically. Jacob gave him a slight shove. "Sorry, I mean, what a thoughtful gift," said Ezekiel.

            "I don't care what you think, Ezekiel. I think he's cute," replied Cassandra.

            "Whatever," replied Ezekiel, "I'm going to my room." As he headed out of the room, he turned back and said, "and Stone, maybe next time you'll remember where we were supposed to meet." He was gone before Jacob could reply.

          "Well, now that we got the box out of the way, I'm going to check to see if all the security measures are up to date," said Jenkins. Then he left the room.

           Flynn and Eve were the next to leave the room. As they left, Eve was asking Flynn if he would do something that sweet for her with Flynn saying that of course he would.

           Cassandra and Jacob were the only ones left in the room. They stood there quietly for a moment. Cassandra was still looking at the stuffed cat in her hands. She didn't realize Jacob was staring at her. He had a sweet smile on his face as he looked at her.

            Jacob was lost in thought, not realizing he was staring at Cassandra. I'm glad she likes the gift, he thought. He's not sure if he'll ever tell her the truth. 

           After Jenkins dropped them all off, Jacob made a plan. Jenkins dropped Jacob and Ezekiel off at the same place. Jacob turned to Ezekiel and said, "Hey, I am going to run a few errands and we can meet up after to call Jenkins to pick us up."

         "Alright, Mate," replied Ezekiel. Ezekiel took out his phone and looked at his G.P.S. "How about we meet at Blue Bird Tavern," said Ezekiel. 

            "Sounds good," replied Jacob, "In an hour sound alright?"

           "Alright, see you then," replied Ezekiel. 

            Jacob watched as Ezekiel walked away and turned the corner. As soon as he was out of sight, Jacob rushed to get done what he had to do and get back in time. 

            Jacob had just placed the box, when he saw a taxi turn the corner. Someone was coming back earlier than he expected. He rushed off to the woods hoping not to be seen. He was going to have to take a longer way back to meet Ezekiel.

         When Jacob got close to the meeting place, he was already running behind. That's when he spotted Burgerville. He ducked inside and waited a few minutes to call Ezekiel. “Where are you, man," asked Jacob as soon as Ezekiel picked up.

             "I'm at Blue Bird Tavern waiting on you," replied Ezekiel. 

            "But we said we were meeting at Burgerville," replied Jacob.

            "No we didn't, Mate, we said Blue Bird Tavern," replied Ezekiel. 

            "I am pretty sure we said Burgerville, but whatever, just meet me here," said Jacob.

           Ezekiel arrived and they began to argue about who was right. Of course Ezekiel was right but Jacob will never admit to that. They called a door instead of calling Jenkins and waiting to be picked up. They continued to argue as they stepped through the door into the Annex. 

           Jacob came out of his thoughts when he realized Cassandra was looking at him. He realized she had said something to him. He asked her to repeat what she said.

          "I said it was really sweet of someone to do this for me," she replied.

          "Yeah," replied Jacob, "I am sure whoever left it, thinks you are special and deserve something special."

           Cassandra looked at Jacob. He was looking away kind of shyly as he said that. It was at that moment she knew. "I wonder why he didn't write his name," she said. 

           "Maybe he's afraid you won't feel the same way about him," replied Jacob. 

           They were silent for a moment. Cassandra waited until Jacob looked at her. "Well, I hope he one day gets the courage to tell me who he is," she said. She picked up the cat and card and put them into the box. "I think I'm going to go to bed,” she said as she picked up the box.

            Jacob walked with Cassandra to the door. As she was about to walk out the door, she said, “Good night, Jacob," and she gave him a kiss on the cheek. Then she was gone.

          Jacob gathered up some things in the Annex, as he thought about what Cassandra said. He went to the door, looking back as he reached for the lights. Yeah, he thought, maybe someday I'll tell her it was me. He turned out the lights and headed to his room.

[reckling-turtle]

i love this new fic trope of “character is moving to a new state” and it ends up being oregon/washington

not sure if fic writers actually live in northwest or just like the aesthetic but its nice and i love it

[kaniac84]

The Card Says "Secret Admirer"

   “Are you sure this is where you want to go?”

    “Yes,” replied Eve Baird as the car pulled up outside the Annex door. This wasn’t the first time she got asked that nor would it be the last.

    The driver stared at her as she got out. “Are you sure,” he asked.

    “Yes,” she replied, “I like the quiet and enjoy having lunch out here.”

    Eve watched as the car pulled away. Next time, she thought, maybe I should just take the back door.

    The back door was a magic door that Jenkins came up with. It could take them anywhere in the world that has a door. They just twist some knobs on the old globe, open the doors, and they were there. It was fast and convenient, but when just going into town, it felt better to take a car. Made her feel more like a regular person.

    In fact, today, they all decided to head out for a while. Jenkins took the car and dropped them all off. He had a few errands to run himself and needed the car. He said he would pick them up when they were ready or set a door to their location. Eve decided to call a car instead. She didn’t always like using the magic door and even though Jenkins said he would pick them up, he would complain the whole time.

    Eve saw someone walking in the woods nearby, but couldn’t make out who it was. She waited until they were out of sight before heading to the Annex door. They didn’t need others nosing around the building. She always got on Jones every time had a pizza delivered.

As Eve got closer to the door, she noticed a package sitting next to it. She approached it carefully. Flynn or Jenkins probably had an artifact sent here from someone. These artifacts can be dangerous. She hated getting surprises like this. 

    After making sure the package was safe to move, Eve picked it up and took it inside. After putting away the things she had picked up on her trip to town, Eve took the package to the Annex. She sat it down on the table and plucked the envelope off the package. There was nothing written on it except for a drawn heart. No name, no address. Nothing to indicate where it came from or who it was for.

    At that moment, Jenkins walked into the room. “That is the last time I offer to take any of you anywhere,” he said.

    “Didn’t enjoy the ride,” asked Eve.

    “No way. First one of you wants to go here. Another wants to go there. Somebody wants to be picked up and taken somewhere else. That is it. Next time you want to go to town, drive yourselves or take the door,” replied Jenkins. He spotted the package on the table. “What is that,” he asked.

    “I don’t know,” replied Eve, “I found it by the door, outside, when I got back.”

    “Well, who is it from? Who is it for,” asked Jenkins.

    “I’m not sure. There is nothing on the envelope except a heart,” replied Eve, as she showed it to Jenkins.

    “So, it is not from you,” asked Jenkins. Eve shook her head no. “Well, I didn’t leave it,” replied Jenkins, “It must be from Mr. Carsen.”

    “What must be from me,” asked Flynn as he walked into the room.

    “Did you leave this package by the door for me to find,” asked Eve.

    “No, why would I,” Flynn Carsen said as he walked over to check it out.

    “I don’t know, because you love me and wanted to do something special,” replied Eve.

    “Sorry, sweetie. I meant to say I love you,” replied Flynn, “But I didn’t leave this.”

    “Uh, huh,” replied Eve quizzingly, as Flynn kissed her on the cheek.

    “Mr. Jenkins, where did you put my…” said Cassandra as she came into the room. She stopped when she saw the three of them standing around the Annex table. “What’s going on? Do we have a new case,” she asked them.

    Jenkins suddenly remembered when Cassandra had a crush on him. “Did you leave a package by the Annex door,” asked Jenkins.

    “A package? What kind of package,” asked Cassandra moving towards the table.

    “I found a package outside. There is a card, but the only thing on the envelope is a drawn heart. We don’t know who it is for, or who is from,” Eve replied.

    Cassandra looked over at the package. “I didn’t leave it,” she replied. “And none of you left it,” she asked the three of them. They all shook their heads no. “What do we do with it,” she asked.

    “I don’t know, maybe we should open the card? See what it says,” said Flynn. 

    Before any of them could answer the globe started spinning and the backdoor lit up. As the doors opened up, Flynn and the others could hear them arguing before seeing Jacob and Ezekiel walking into the room.

    “We said we were going to meet at Blue Bird Tavern,” said Ezekiel.

    “No, we said we were going to meet at Burgerville,” replied Jacob angrily.

    “No, we didn’t mate. I distinctly remember saying Blue Bird Tavern. We were going to grab a pint before we came back,” replied Ezekiel.

    Ezekiel and Jacob stopped when they realized the other four were staring at them. “What’s going on,” asked Jacob

    “What are you two arguing about now,” asked Jenkins, “I thought you were going to call when you were ready to be picked up, but you never did.”

    “Yeah, because Jones never showed up to the meeting place until I called to see where he was at,” replied Jacob.

    “No, you didn’t show up to Blue Bird Tavern, where we said we were going to meet,” replied Ezekiel.

    “We said Burgerville,” said Jacob. He and Ezekiel started arguing again.

    “Enough,” said Eve and they both stopped.

    “What is everybody doing in the Annex, anyway,” asked Ezekiel.

    “Why are you asking? Are you trying to hide something,” Flynn asked Ezekiel.

    “No, just curious,” replied Ezekiel and took a bite of the pizza he had in his hand.

    Flynn eyed Ezekiel for a moment. Eve broke the silence and said, “Anywho, I found this box outside. Did one of you two leave it?”

    Jacob and Ezekiel walked up to the table to look at the box. “I’ve never seen that,” replied Jacob.

    “Me, neither,” replied Ezekiel, “Who’s it for?”

    “We don’t know,” replied Eve. She held up the envelope and said, “There’s no name written on it. Just a drawn heart.”

    “Well, the only person I would send that to is myself,” replied Ezekiel. “But I didn’t,” Ezekiel said after noticing the weird looks from the others.

    Jacob rolled his eyes at Ezekiel. Then he held out his hand and said, “Can I see it?”

    Eve handed the enveloped card to Jacob. He looked it over while asking, “You found this outside by the door? Did you see anybody else when you found it?”

    Eve replied, “Yes by the door.” She thought about it for a second and replied, “Wait, I thought I saw someone walking through the woods, but I didn’t get a good look at them.”

    “Hmm,” said Jacob, “Somebody could have seen one of us in town and followed us back here. We aren’t always careful when we head out on the town.”

    “You’re right,” replied Jenkins, “We haven’t been careful, but that’s why we have safeguards to keep people out.”

    “So, what are we going to do with it,” asked Ezekiel.

    “I think we are going to have to open it to see who it is for,” said Eve.

    They all agreed. Then Cassandra asked, “Who’s going to open it?”

    They all looked at each other. Then Flynn said to Jacob, “Why don’t you open it since you are holding it.”

    Jacob said okay and then opened the envelope. He opened the card and glanced at it real quick. Then he turned to Cassandra and said, “I believe it is for you.”

    Cassandra took the card from Jacob and read it to herself. She smiled. 

    After a few minutes Flynn asked, “What does it say?”

    Cassandra looked up and read, "Cassandra, you are the smartest, most beautiful woman I ever met. I love your caring nature. I love that you try not to let people get the better of you but not afraid to tell them off. I have trust in you and I hope one day you would feel the same about me. For now I will cherish the moments we have together."

            Cassandra stopped reading the card. She looked up as Eve said, "do you spend a lot of time with people?"

             "I don't know. I do visit a lot of the same places when we go out and talk to some of the regulars and employees at those places," replied Cassandra.

            "Who does it say it's from," asked Flynn.

            "The card says, 'Secret Admirer'," Cassandra replied.

            "Someone wants to remain anonymous for now, that's interesting," said Flynn intrigued.

            "What's in the box," asked Ezekiel.

            Cassandra opened up the box. She reached inside and pulled out something wrapped in tissue paper. She carefully unwrapped the gift to reveal a stuffed cat dressed as a scientist. She smiled a slight smile.

            "Wow, that's so interesting," said Ezekiel sarcastically. Jacob gave him a slight shove. "Sorry, I mean, what a thoughtful gift," said Ezekiel.

            "I don't care what you think, Ezekiel. I think he's cute," replied Cassandra.

            "Whatever," replied Ezekiel, "I'm going to my room." As he headed out of the room, he turned back and said, "and Stone, maybe next time you'll remember where we were supposed to meet." He was gone before Jacob could reply.

          "Well, now that we got the box out of the way, I'm going to check to see if all the security measures are up to date," said Jenkins. Then he left the room.

           Flynn and Eve were the next to leave the room. As they left, Eve was asking Flynn if he would do something that sweet for her with Flynn saying that of course he would.

           Cassandra and Jacob were the only ones left in the room. They stood there quietly for a moment. Cassandra was still looking at the stuffed cat in her hands. She didn't realize Jacob was staring at her. He had a sweet smile on his face as he looked at her.

            Jacob was lost in thought, not realizing he was staring at Cassandra. I'm glad she likes the gift, he thought. He's not sure if he'll ever tell her the truth. 

           After Jenkins dropped them all off, Jacob made a plan. Jenkins dropped Jacob and Ezekiel off at the same place. Jacob turned to Ezekiel and said, "Hey, I am going to run a few errands and we can meet up after to call Jenkins to pick us up."

         "Alright, Mate," replied Ezekiel. Ezekiel took out his phone and looked at his G.P.S. "How about we meet at Blue Bird Tavern," said Ezekiel. 

            "Sounds good," replied Jacob, "In an hour sound alright?"

           "Alright, see you then," replied Ezekiel. 

            Jacob watched as Ezekiel walked away and turned the corner. As soon as he was out of sight, Jacob rushed to get done what he had to do and get back in time. 

            Jacob had just placed the box, when he saw a taxi turn the corner. Someone was coming back earlier than he expected. He rushed off to the woods hoping not to be seen. He was going to have to take a longer way back to meet Ezekiel.

         When Jacob got close to the meeting place, he was already running behind. That's when he spotted Burgerville. He ducked inside and waited a few minutes to call Ezekiel. “Where are you, man," asked Jacob as soon as Ezekiel picked up.

             "I'm at Blue Bird Tavern waiting on you," replied Ezekiel. 

            "But we said we were meeting at Burgerville," replied Jacob.

            "No we didn't, Mate, we said Blue Bird Tavern," replied Ezekiel. 

            "I am pretty sure we said Burgerville, but whatever, just meet me here," said Jacob.

           Ezekiel arrived and they began to argue about who was right. Of course Ezekiel was right but Jacob will never admit to that. They called a door instead of calling Jenkins and waiting to be picked up. They continued to argue as they stepped through the door into the Annex. 

           Jacob came out of his thoughts when he realized Cassandra was looking at him. He realized she had said something to him. He asked her to repeat what she said.

          "I said it was really sweet of someone to do this for me," she replied.

          "Yeah," replied Jacob, "I am sure whoever left it, thinks you are special and deserve something special."

           Cassandra looked at Jacob. He was looking away kind of shyly as he said that. It was at that moment she knew. "I wonder why he didn't write his name," she said. 

           "Maybe he's afraid you won't feel the same way about him," replied Jacob. 

           They were silent for a moment. Cassandra waited until Jacob looked at her. "Well, I hope he one day gets the courage to tell me who he is," she said. She picked up the cat and card and put them into the box. "I think I'm going to go to bed,” she said as she picked up the box.

            Jacob walked with Cassandra to the door. As she was about to walk out the door, she said, “Good night, Jacob," and she gave him a kiss on the cheek. Then she was gone.

          Jacob gathered up some things in the Annex, as he thought about what Cassandra said. He went to the door, looking back as he reached for the lights. Yeah, he thought, maybe someday I'll tell her it was me. He turned out the lights and headed to his room.

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 26 April 2016 in Portland, Oregon, workers at four Burgerville locations, a regional fast-food hamburger chain in the United States, formed the Burgerville Workers Union. Their demands included five dollar an hour raises, predictable and fair scheduling, safer working conditions, health care, maternity and paternity leave, transportation subsidies, and an end to the company’s use of E-verify. Nearly two years later, the size of the union has more than doubled and workers at one store won a National Labor Relations certification election to become the first and only modern federally recognized fast-food union in the country. Support them at: Burgerville Workers Union https://ift.tt/2HTKfIV

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Burgerville Workers Union Becomes First Formally Recognized Fast Food Union in the US

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Burgerville Workers Union has won a union election in one location, meaning that the company will be forced to negotiate a contract with the workers. Other stores are expected to soon come on board. BVWU, a part of the IWW, also becomes the first fast food chain in the US to be unionized. We won […]

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Burgerville is an American fast-casual restaurant with locations mainly in Washington and Oregon. They are specialized in serving mainly hamburgers, but their menu also includes breakfast food items, kids’ meals, chicken tenders, sides, sandwiches, salads, vegetarian burgers, and fish and chips. And if you want something sweet you can choose from their wide range of […]

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They Tried to Start a Union During a Pandemic, But They Were Fired. What’s Next?

A group of union members picketing circa 1938 | Photo by MPI/Getty Images

Some food industry workers say companies are using the pandemic as an excuse to halt efforts to unionize 

Abismael Colon, a server at an Outback Steakhouse in the Orlando International Airport, was ready to unionize his workplace. For almost nine years, Colon had served countless Bloomin’ Onions and trained new hires despite what he describes as verbal insults and a daily fear that he’d be fired without cause by his superiors. This particular Outback Steakhouse was operated by HMSHost, an airport and highway food service company. Together with the hospitality-industry union Unite Here, the veteran employee and his colleagues helped garner majority support of about 800 workers at the airport’s other HMSHost-operated restaurants, such as Chili’s and Starbucks, with an election slated for late March to determine whether the union would officially represent the staff.

But Colon’s hopes for union representation took a heavy blow once the novel coronavirus hit Florida. The National Labor Relations Board delayed all elections a week before the HMSHost vote due to the pandemic. Once the Tampa regional branch reopened and announced it was accepting mail-in ballots, the company successfully moved to block the option and pushed for in-person voting, further dragging out the union campaign. More than three months later, Colon, like many of his now-furloughed colleagues, is without a paycheck, without health insurance, and without any job security.

“By them delaying the union and getting ourselves into a contract or negotiating, right now, we don’t have a guarantee to go back to work,” Colon says. “So employees are angry. They’re like, ‘Hey, when are we gonna get this vote?’ because they want their jobs back.”

Amid a growing wave of worker activism across the food industry, employees and contractors at restaurant chains and delivery apps alike have found themselves banding together to improve workplace conditions. In 2012, the Fight for $15 movement began to push nationally for a $15 minimum wage and union representation for fast-food workers, and in the years since, Gimme Coffee baristas in upstate New York have voted in favor of unionization, followed by employees at Portland branches of the fast-food chain Burgerville and Tartine locations in the Bay Area, as well as a group of Instacart workers in Skokie, Illinois.

“Employers feel they have a real friend in the Trump National Labor Relations Board.”

More recently, as the coronavirus spurred citywide business shutdowns, grocery store and restaurant workers were deemed “essential” in ensuring communities’ access to food and supplies. This led to some crisis-born benefits like pay raises and improved sick leave options at chains like Starbucks, where employees were given a temporary $3 per hour pay bump along with extended catastrophe pay. Other workers, however, saw their temporary wage increases and new workplace safety measures only through strikes and sickouts: After hundreds of workers at Kroger’s Delta Distribution Center in Memphis briefly stopped fulfilling orders in late March, the company granted all its employees temporary $2 per hour hazard pay and increased protections, like plexiglass protecting workers at the cash register.

But even as low-wage workers across the industry have gained these handfuls of new financial and health perks, some say companies have wielded the ongoing public health crisis as a tool for cracking down on union and worker organizing. On July 5, California-based Augie’s Coffee laid off its baristas and closed its retail operations indefinitely so as not “to risk the health and safety of our staff.” The timing was roughly a week and a half after employees informed management of their intent to unionize and asked for recognition, according the Augie’s Union; many of the company’s stores had continued service throughout the pandemic, even after Los Angeles County reported its first death. Whole Foods, which, according to a Business Insider report, has been using a heat map to monitor potential unionization activity, fired an employee who had been tracking the number of COVID-19 cases at Whole Foods locations; the company told Motherboard that the employee’s firing was not retaliatory and that she had violated company policies. And after Trader Joe’s workers began organizing earlier this year, in March, an employee who helped start a non-management-staff Facebook group to discuss coronavirus safety and health concerns was similarly fired. A Trader Joe’s spokesperson also said the firing was not retaliatory.

“The Trump [National Labor Relations] Board has made some changes to the rules, and employers feel they have a real friend in the Trump Board,” says Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at Cornell University. “So they’re acting with even more impunity.”

On March 20, employees at the downtown Portland, Oregon, location of the nationally expanding chain Voodoo Doughnut delivered a letter to management announcing that they had formed a union with the International Workers of the World. Even before holding an official union election, the newly formed Voodoo Doughnut Workers Union demanded higher wages and increased safety protections for staff, and severance packages for the branch’s roughly 30 employees laid off because of the pandemic.

Workers said they were told their unemployment would be temporary, and that the company would rehire workers once the social and economic climates stabilized. But this past June, the workers’ union accused the company of using the layoffs to “clean house” and hire new, non-unionized employees through Snagajob. Under overcast skies and the watch of pastry-hungry customers, workers picketed outside of the chain’s Old Town location, holding signs that read “Stop Union Busting” and “Don’t Throw Us Out Like Day Old Donuts.”

“It absolutely was a shock to many of us how the company has treated us,” says Samantha Bryce, a Voodoo Doughnut Workers Union representative. “Really what we want is recognition and we want our jobs back.” The workers’ union said that it had filed 29 charges against the company with the NLRB.

In response to questions regarding the allegations of discriminating against union workers in rehiring, Audrey Lincoff, a Voodoo Doughnut spokesperson, said in a statement to Eater: “Like all affected businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, Voodoo Doughnut continues to rehire and hire as the business needs dictate.”

Since the establishment of the Wagner Act in 1935, private-sector workers have been legally guaranteed the right to organize workplace unions and collectively bargain. But according to a 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a left-leaning think tank, more than 41 percent of employers were found to have violated the federal law in union election campaigns. According to Celine McNicholas, labor counsel for the EPI and co-author of the report, part of the reason companies feel secure in breaking the law by firing workers or threatening to discipline them for organizing a union is that the enforcement of the law is lax, cases brought by unfairly discharged workers can drag on for years, and the penalties to many employers — rehiring the employee plus back pay, which deducts any income they earned from another job — are a slap on the wrist compared to having to deal with a more expensive and protected workforce.

“Even if it’s patently illegal under the NLRB, with the particular way it’s being enforced in this administration, employers are able to bend and break the law with relative impunity in really egregious cases,” McNicholas says, adding that there are “not adequate remedies and enforcement methods to make it scary enough for employers not to do it.”

Employees at HMSHost-operated restaurants at Orlando International Airport have been campaigning for a union since last year, and the company has taken steps in an apparent aim to stifle the union drive — and use the coronavirus as pretext to ensure its success. (HMSHost did not respond to a request for comment.)

According to restaurant workers, HMSHost hired a labor relations consulting firm and hosted captive audience meetings starting in February. In a tiny room at the airport, consultants lectured groups of employees with anti-union talking points, even when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began to recommend early social-distancing methods. As staff members began to face furloughs, Colon says an assistant manager informed him and other workers that the general manager was planning to bring back only non-union workers. And the company stymied election proceedings by arguing against a mail-in-ballot election to the National Labor Relations Board, as employees wanted to avoid congregating for in-person voting while coronavirus cases surged in Florida.

With a successful vote in favor of a union, HMSHost would be legally required to bargain with employees’ union representatives and sign a contract. Along with higher wages, health benefits, and workplace safety provisions, union representatives could also push for an agreement that includes recall guarantees and a fair recall system. But as of now, there is no election date in sight: According to emails between company and union lawyers, HMSHost’s latest holdup is arguing to the National Labor Relations Board that furloughed workers — roughly 90 percent of the company’s airport restaurant staff — shouldn’t be allowed to vote in the union election. And lately, some workers are worrying that their campaign could lose steam.

“I have coworkers who have kids,” says Rosanny Tejeda, a furloughed barista at an HMSHost-operated Starbucks. “The unemployment benefits aren’t going to last forever, and for a big family it might not be enough. They might give up on waiting and find themselves another job.”

“They don’t want to lose control of the dynamic.”

American companies have exploited chaotic climates to undermine workers’ organizing efforts before. In an interview with the New York Times, the Georgetown University labor historian Joseph McCartin said that during the 1918 flu pandemic, steel plants and industrial companies managed to sway local officials to ban union meetings and frustrate organizing campaigns, the rationale being that they were breeding grounds for disease transmission. During the Great Depression, he added, employers often targeted union workers for layoffs.

But now, even employees who are simply organizing for safe working conditions and hazard pay during the pandemic are coming under fire from their superiors. Louisville, Kentucky, Trader Joe’s employee Kris King was among those fired after starting a Facebook group to discuss workplace health and safety concerns. On March 31, shortly after King was fired, Trader Joe’s chairman and CEO, Dan Bane, sent a letter to company employees, writing that “a host of union campaigns have been launched that seek to capitalize on the current unstable environment in America.”

“I think they’re just afraid of a larger voice and losing control of their employees,” King says. He adds that although the company manages to keep most of its employees content during normal times, “when more is at stake and people want to step up and be vocal together, they don’t want to lose control of the dynamic.”

In April, Kenya Friend-Daniel, a spokesperson for Trader Joe’s, wrote in an email to Eater regarding King’s firing: “I can tell you we did not end his employment due to a desire to unionize, set up a social media page or express concerns, nor would we do so with any other Crew Member.”

For McNicholas, the labor counsel at the EPI, there is a potential silver lining in this moment. Food industry workers who have continued to supply everyone from the newly unemployed to people working from home with basic necessities and comforts are shedding light on their treatment by companies, whether it’s by demanding union recognition or the extension of hazard pay and more hand sanitizing stations. In turn, they’re gaining community support, and more importantly, an increased desire to hold companies accountable.

“There has been a backlash, and the more these stories are told, that comes together for the perfect storm where you have a new administration with demands put on it by working people,” she says, “and those become priority for new administration, changes for the way we work, and then growth for the union movement.”

Matthew Sedacca is a writer living in Brooklyn.

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A group of union members picketing circa 1938 | Photo by MPI/Getty Images

Some food industry workers say companies are using the pandemic as an excuse to halt efforts to unionize 

Abismael Colon, a server at an Outback Steakhouse in the Orlando International Airport, was ready to unionize his workplace. For almost nine years, Colon had served countless Bloomin’ Onions and trained new hires despite what he describes as verbal insults and a daily fear that he’d be fired without cause by his superiors. This particular Outback Steakhouse was operated by HMSHost, an airport and highway food service company. Together with the hospitality-industry union Unite Here, the veteran employee and his colleagues helped garner majority support of about 800 workers at the airport’s other HMSHost-operated restaurants, such as Chili’s and Starbucks, with an election slated for late March to determine whether the union would officially represent the staff.

But Colon’s hopes for union representation took a heavy blow once the novel coronavirus hit Florida. The National Labor Relations Board delayed all elections a week before the HMSHost vote due to the pandemic. Once the Tampa regional branch reopened and announced it was accepting mail-in ballots, the company successfully moved to block the option and pushed for in-person voting, further dragging out the union campaign. More than three months later, Colon, like many of his now-furloughed colleagues, is without a paycheck, without health insurance, and without any job security.

“By them delaying the union and getting ourselves into a contract or negotiating, right now, we don’t have a guarantee to go back to work,” Colon says. “So employees are angry. They’re like, ‘Hey, when are we gonna get this vote?’ because they want their jobs back.”

Amid a growing wave of worker activism across the food industry, employees and contractors at restaurant chains and delivery apps alike have found themselves banding together to improve workplace conditions. In 2012, the Fight for $15 movement began to push nationally for a $15 minimum wage and union representation for fast-food workers, and in the years since, Gimme Coffee baristas in upstate New York have voted in favor of unionization, followed by employees at Portland branches of the fast-food chain Burgerville and Tartine locations in the Bay Area, as well as a group of Instacart workers in Skokie, Illinois.

“Employers feel they have a real friend in the Trump National Labor Relations Board.”

More recently, as the coronavirus spurred citywide business shutdowns, grocery store and restaurant workers were deemed “essential” in ensuring communities’ access to food and supplies. This led to some crisis-born benefits like pay raises and improved sick leave options at chains like Starbucks, where employees were given a temporary $3 per hour pay bump along with extended catastrophe pay. Other workers, however, saw their temporary wage increases and new workplace safety measures only through strikes and sickouts: After hundreds of workers at Kroger’s Delta Distribution Center in Memphis briefly stopped fulfilling orders in late March, the company granted all its employees temporary $2 per hour hazard pay and increased protections, like plexiglass protecting workers at the cash register.

But even as low-wage workers across the industry have gained these handfuls of new financial and health perks, some say companies have wielded the ongoing public health crisis as a tool for cracking down on union and worker organizing. On July 5, California-based Augie’s Coffee laid off its baristas and closed its retail operations indefinitely so as not “to risk the health and safety of our staff.” The timing was roughly a week and a half after employees informed management of their intent to unionize and asked for recognition, according the Augie’s Union; many of the company’s stores had continued service throughout the pandemic, even after Los Angeles County reported its first death. Whole Foods, which, according to a Business Insider report, has been using a heat map to monitor potential unionization activity, fired an employee who had been tracking the number of COVID-19 cases at Whole Foods locations; the company told Motherboard that the employee’s firing was not retaliatory and that she had violated company policies. And after Trader Joe’s workers began organizing earlier this year, in March, an employee who helped start a non-management-staff Facebook group to discuss coronavirus safety and health concerns was similarly fired. A Trader Joe’s spokesperson also said the firing was not retaliatory.

“The Trump [National Labor Relations] Board has made some changes to the rules, and employers feel they have a real friend in the Trump Board,” says Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at Cornell University. “So they’re acting with even more impunity.”

On March 20, employees at the downtown Portland, Oregon, location of the nationally expanding chain Voodoo Doughnut delivered a letter to management announcing that they had formed a union with the International Workers of the World. Even before holding an official union election, the newly formed Voodoo Doughnut Workers Union demanded higher wages and increased safety protections for staff, and severance packages for the branch’s roughly 30 employees laid off because of the pandemic.

Workers said they were told their unemployment would be temporary, and that the company would rehire workers once the social and economic climates stabilized. But this past June, the workers’ union accused the company of using the layoffs to “clean house” and hire new, non-unionized employees through Snagajob. Under overcast skies and the watch of pastry-hungry customers, workers picketed outside of the chain’s Old Town location, holding signs that read “Stop Union Busting” and “Don’t Throw Us Out Like Day Old Donuts.”

“It absolutely was a shock to many of us how the company has treated us,” says Samantha Bryce, a Voodoo Doughnut Workers Union representative. “Really what we want is recognition and we want our jobs back.” The workers’ union said that it had filed 29 charges against the company with the NLRB.

In response to questions regarding the allegations of discriminating against union workers in rehiring, Audrey Lincoff, a Voodoo Doughnut spokesperson, said in a statement to Eater: “Like all affected businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, Voodoo Doughnut continues to rehire and hire as the business needs dictate.”

Since the establishment of the Wagner Act in 1935, private-sector workers have been legally guaranteed the right to organize workplace unions and collectively bargain. But according to a 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a left-leaning think tank, more than 41 percent of employers were found to have violated the federal law in union election campaigns. According to Celine McNicholas, labor counsel for the EPI and co-author of the report, part of the reason companies feel secure in breaking the law by firing workers or threatening to discipline them for organizing a union is that the enforcement of the law is lax, cases brought by unfairly discharged workers can drag on for years, and the penalties to many employers — rehiring the employee plus back pay, which deducts any income they earned from another job — are a slap on the wrist compared to having to deal with a more expensive and protected workforce.

“Even if it’s patently illegal under the NLRB, with the particular way it’s being enforced in this administration, employers are able to bend and break the law with relative impunity in really egregious cases,” McNicholas says, adding that there are “not adequate remedies and enforcement methods to make it scary enough for employers not to do it.”

Employees at HMSHost-operated restaurants at Orlando International Airport have been campaigning for a union since last year, and the company has taken steps in an apparent aim to stifle the union drive — and use the coronavirus as pretext to ensure its success. (HMSHost did not respond to a request for comment.)

According to restaurant workers, HMSHost hired a labor relations consulting firm and hosted captive audience meetings starting in February. In a tiny room at the airport, consultants lectured groups of employees with anti-union talking points, even when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began to recommend early social-distancing methods. As staff members began to face furloughs, Colon says an assistant manager informed him and other workers that the general manager was planning to bring back only non-union workers. And the company stymied election proceedings by arguing against a mail-in-ballot election to the National Labor Relations Board, as employees wanted to avoid congregating for in-person voting while coronavirus cases surged in Florida.

With a successful vote in favor of a union, HMSHost would be legally required to bargain with employees’ union representatives and sign a contract. Along with higher wages, health benefits, and workplace safety provisions, union representatives could also push for an agreement that includes recall guarantees and a fair recall system. But as of now, there is no election date in sight: According to emails between company and union lawyers, HMSHost’s latest holdup is arguing to the National Labor Relations Board that furloughed workers — roughly 90 percent of the company’s airport restaurant staff — shouldn’t be allowed to vote in the union election. And lately, some workers are worrying that their campaign could lose steam.

“I have coworkers who have kids,” says Rosanny Tejeda, a furloughed barista at an HMSHost-operated Starbucks. “The unemployment benefits aren’t going to last forever, and for a big family it might not be enough. They might give up on waiting and find themselves another job.”

“They don’t want to lose control of the dynamic.”

American companies have exploited chaotic climates to undermine workers’ organizing efforts before. In an interview with the New York Times, the Georgetown University labor historian Joseph McCartin said that during the 1918 flu pandemic, steel plants and industrial companies managed to sway local officials to ban union meetings and frustrate organizing campaigns, the rationale being that they were breeding grounds for disease transmission. During the Great Depression, he added, employers often targeted union workers for layoffs.

But now, even employees who are simply organizing for safe working conditions and hazard pay during the pandemic are coming under fire from their superiors. Louisville, Kentucky, Trader Joe’s employee Kris King was among those fired after starting a Facebook group to discuss workplace health and safety concerns. On March 31, shortly after King was fired, Trader Joe’s chairman and CEO, Dan Bane, sent a letter to company employees, writing that “a host of union campaigns have been launched that seek to capitalize on the current unstable environment in America.”

“I think they’re just afraid of a larger voice and losing control of their employees,” King says. He adds that although the company manages to keep most of its employees content during normal times, “when more is at stake and people want to step up and be vocal together, they don’t want to lose control of the dynamic.”

In April, Kenya Friend-Daniel, a spokesperson for Trader Joe’s, wrote in an email to Eater regarding King’s firing: “I can tell you we did not end his employment due to a desire to unionize, set up a social media page or express concerns, nor would we do so with any other Crew Member.”

For McNicholas, the labor counsel at the EPI, there is a potential silver lining in this moment. Food industry workers who have continued to supply everyone from the newly unemployed to people working from home with basic necessities and comforts are shedding light on their treatment by companies, whether it’s by demanding union recognition or the extension of hazard pay and more hand sanitizing stations. In turn, they’re gaining community support, and more importantly, an increased desire to hold companies accountable.

“There has been a backlash, and the more these stories are told, that comes together for the perfect storm where you have a new administration with demands put on it by working people,” she says, “and those become priority for new administration, changes for the way we work, and then growth for the union movement.”

Matthew Sedacca is a writer living in Brooklyn.

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TripAdvisor Cuts 25% Of Workforce Amid Pandemic

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Topline: As the coronavirus pandemic keeps Americans confined to their homes, nearly every industry has been negatively impacted by the disease, and businesses losing out on cash flow have started laying off workers.

Here’s who’s axed staff so far:

Airlines & Transportation

Air Canada will lay off 5,100 members of its cabin crew, about half of its current roster, as its planned flights for April have been cut by nearly 80%.

Air New Zealand will let 3,500 workers go, equaling about one-third of its workforce.

Avis Car Rental Boston’s Logan International Airport reportedly laid off an undisclosed number of workers.

Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of car renters Enterprise, National and Alamo laid off 743 workers in North Carolina.

Flight Centre, Australia’s largest travel agent, is laying off and putting on leave a third of its 20,000 employees.

Helloworld Travel, an Australian travel agent, let 275 employees go.

Car rental company Hertz plans to lay off 10,000 workers from its North American business.

Norwegian Air said that it would temporarily lay off up to 50% of its workforce, meaning 7,300 workers, and suspend 4,000 flights due to the pandemic.

Scandinavian Airlines said Sunday it will temporarily lay off 10,000 employees, equal to 90% of their staff.

Stena Line, a European ferry operator, announced that 950 jobs would be cut in Sweden due to a sharp decline in travel bookings.

Canadian airline and travel company Transat AT let go of 3,600 workers, or about 70% of its workforce.

TripAdvisor eliminated 600 roles in the U.S. and Canada, and 300 more in other countries, as part of a 25% workforce reduction; an undisclosed number were furloughed.

ZipCar, a car rental company, laid off 20% of its 500 workers.

Airports

Arts, Culture & Entertainment

Film studio 20th Century Fox dismissed 120 Los Angeles-based employees.

The Houston-based Alley Theatre laid off 75% of its staff and implemented pay cuts for those remaining.

Caesars Entertainment Corp. has also begun pandemic-prompted layoffs.

Christie Lights, an Orlando, Florida, stage lighting company, laid off 100 employees.

Toronto-based movie theater chain Cineplex Inc. laid off thousands of part-time workers after being forced to shut its 165 locations across Canada and the U.S.

The Circuit of the Americas, an Austin, Texas-based concert, automobile racing, conference and entertainment complex, said it was laying off an undisclosed number of workers after being indefinitely closed due to coronavirus.

Montreal-based circus producer Cirque du Soleil will lay off 4,679 people—95% of its staff.

Talent agency Endeavor laid off 250 workers, with the first wave focusing on those who cannot do their jobs from home, such as restaurant workers.

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, IATSE, estimated that 120,000 jobs for film workers, including technicians, artisans and other crew positions have been eliminated.

Lifestyle branding agency Karla Otto laid off approximately 28 New York City employees and several others in its Los Angeles office.

Public relations firm Krupp Group laid off an undisclosed number of New York and Los Angeles employees.

About 300 workers across the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Norman Rockwell Museum and the Hancock Shaker Village will be out of jobs by mid-April.

New Jersey’s McCarter Theater said an undisclosed number of full-time and seasonal workers across every department will be laid off from May 15.

Production company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios let 7% of its workforce go, resulting in about 50 positions being eliminated.

New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art laid off 81 employees.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California, let go of all 97 part-time staffers.

About 85 freelancers in Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art have been cut.

Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut laid off approximately 200 workers.

Hollywood talent agency Paradigm laid off around 100 employees and reduced payroll for the remaining 500.

New York-based agency PR Consulting let 32 employees go.

The Science Museum of Minnesota temporarily laid off 400 employees.

Boutique fashion and hospitality agency Sequel let an undisclosed number of workers go.

SkyCity Entertainment laid off or furloughed at least 1,100 workers.

At least 50 employees of music and culture festival South By Southwest were let go after this year’s event was canceled, the Washington Post reported.

Creative agency Spring reduced staff in Los Angeles and London.

TeamSanJose, which oversees events at multiple California theaters and convention centers, temporarily let go of approximately 1,300 workers.

New York City’s Whitney Museum laid off 76 workers.

Improvisational theater and school Upright Citizens Brigade laid off dozens of workers.

ViacomCBS let an undisclosed number of contract workers go.

Education

Finance

Government

Healthcare

Hotels

Carmel Valley Ranch in California laid off 600 workers.

The Carlyle and Plaza Hotels laid off hundreds of workers.

Claremont Hotel Properties in California’s Oakland and Berkeley areas has let go of 514 people.

Eden Roc Hotels, in Miami, Florida, laid off 257 employees from its housekeeping, spa and banquet workforces.

The Four Seasons hotel in Vail, Colorado dismissed about 240 staffers.

Colorado’s largest hotel, the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, laid off 800 workers.

Great Wolf Lodge is laying off around 440 employees from its Colorado Springs location.

Kimpton Hotel Aventi in Manhattan, owned by the InterContinental Hotels Group, reportedly laid off 40 employees, while the Ian Schrager-owned Public temporarily laid off an undisclosed number of workers.

Las Alcobas Resort & Spa in California’s Napa go of approximately 140 employees.

Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel company, said tens of thousands of hotel workers will be furloughed, and will lay off a number of those workers.

McMenamins, the Northwest’s largest hotel chain and brewpub, let 3,000 employees go.

MGM Resorts said it would furlough workers and begin layoffs on Monday, but immediately let some staffers go from undisclosed parts of its business.

Over five dozen workers were laid off from West Virginia’s Oglebay Resort and Conference Center.

SoftBank-backed Oyo Hotels laid off 3,000 of its China employees earlier in the month, equaling 30% of its workforce there, part of a global layoff of 5,000.

The Palace Hotel in San Francisco has temporarily eliminated 774 positions.

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, which owns 54 hotels, laid off half of its 8,000 workers and may need to cut an additional 2,000.

Australia-based Redcape Hotel Group will cut most of its 800-person staff.

In San Francisco, California, the RIU Plaza Fisherman’s Wharf dismissed nearly 210 workers.

Sage Hospitality Group let go of 465 workers across three properties in Denver, Colorado.

Scandic, the largest hotel operator in Europe’s Nordic countries, also said it would give termination notices to 2,000 Swedish employees.

Sydell Hotels dismissed around 180 workers.

Workers at President Trump’s hotels—160 in Washington, D.C., 51 in New York City and an unknown number at his Las Vegas, Nevada location—were laid off.

The Warwick Rittenhouse Square Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania laid off 53 workers.

The Westin Boston Waterfront cut 435 workers.

Ventana Big Sur, also in California, let go of around 260 workers.

Industry

North Dakota-based water management and well logistics company MBI Energy Services laid off over 200 workers.

Manufacturing & Logistics

Lightweight metals manufacturer Arconic laid off 100 workers from its Lafayette, Indiana plant.

Power substation and transformer manufacturer Delta Sky let go of an undisclosed number of employees.

General Electric laid off about 10% of its jet engine workforce, around 2,500 workers.

Union leaders at a General Motors plant in Ontario, Canada have recommended a two week layoff due to concerns over the virus.

Metal plating finisher Marsh Plating Corp. in Michigan temporarily laid off 97 workers.

Mitchell Plastics of Charlestown, Indiana, has temporarily laid off 36o workers.

The Port of Los Angeles let go of 145 drivers after ships from China stopped arriving.

Michigan-based woodworker Schafer Woodworks Inc. temporarily laid off 25 employees.

Tilden Mining Co., located in Michigan, temporarily laid off over 680 workers after idling operations April 26.

Minnesota-based cabinetmaker Wayzata Home Products had to lay off its entire 141 person staff.

Real Estate

Restaurants & Dining

“All restaurant staff” were reportedly let go at Aqimero, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Ritz-Carlton hotel.

Bon Appetit Management Company, a retail dining employer for college campuses, laid off 140 workers from the University of Pennsylvania.

Oregon-based Burgerville laid off 162 workers.

Cameron Mitchell Restaurants furloughed 4,500 workers, with 90 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Ocean Prime restaurant reportedly laid off.

Compass Coffee, a Washington, D.C. Starbucks competitor, laid off 150 of its 189 employees—equaling 80 percent of its staff.

Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group laid off 2,000 workers, which is 80% of its workforce.

Austin, Texas-based Dyn365 is laying off 95 office workers.

Earl’s Restaurants, Inc. in Boston laid off around 360 workers from two locations.

Eatwell DC, a District of Columbia-based restaurant group, let go of 160 employees.

Founders Brewing Co., a Grand Rapids, Michigan beer maker, let 163 workers go.

Six Friendly’s restaurants in Connecticut temporarily laid off about 120 workers.

HMSHost, a Seattle, Washington, global restaurant-services provider said it would lay off 200 people and an area corporate shuttle service would lay off 75, HuffPost reported.

Austin, Texas-based JuiceLand let go of of approximately 225 workers.

Landry’s Inc., the parent company of Del Frisco’s and Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. (along with the Golden Nugget casinos) had to temporarily lay off 40,000 workers.

Levy’s Premium Foodservice, which provides services to Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, has let go of 613 workers.

Detroit, Michigan-based Punch Bowl Social laid off 97 workers.

Shake Shack let 20% of its New York City-based corporate staff go.

Trump National Doral restaurant BLT Prime in Miami, Florida, laid off 98 workers.

California-based Vesta Food Service has let 310 workers go.

Retail

Tech boutique B8ta reportedly laid off half of its corporate staff.

Massachusetts-based marijuana dispensary Cultivate laid off an unknown number of workers.

Destination XL, based in Massachusetts, cut 245 brick-and-mortar store jobs.

Shoe retailer DSW put up to 80% of its workers on a temporary unpaid leave of absence, according to a statement from a spokesperson to Forbes.

Australian department store chain Myer Holdings has temporarily laid off 10,000 of its workers.

Stationery and crafts store Paper Source let go of 88 workers across Massachusetts.

U.K.-based retailer Primark laid off 347 workers from locations around Massachusetts.

Cosmetics retailer Sephora let go of some part-time and seasonal workers in its U.S. business; Canadian corporate employees are working reduced hours.

Laura Ashley, the British homewares and bedding maker, filed for administration (the U.K.’s version of bankruptcy) after rescue talks were impeded by the coronavirus outbreak.

New York City bookseller McNally Jackson, which operates four locations, temporarily laid off its employees, but intends to hire them back “as soon as we can,” according to the company’s Instagram account.

Mountain Equipment Co-op, a Canadian outdoor recreation retailer, will let go of 1,300 employees by March 29.

Simon Property Group, America’s largest mall owner, laid off an undisclosed number of employees while furloughing an additional 30% of its workforce.

Inclusive bra maker ThirdLove laid off 30 to 35% of its staff.

Mattress upstart Tuft & Needle let go of an undisclosed number of retail store workers.

Sportswear maker Under Armour laid off around 600 warehouse workers in the Baltimore, Maryland area.

Silicon Valley & Technology

Vehicle sharing platform Bird laid off 30% of its workforce, which came to 406 employees out of its workforce of over 1,300.

Employee equity management startup Carta laid of 161 employees, or about 16% of its workforce.

Fitness platform ClassPass let go of 22% of its employees, while furloughing an additional 31%.

New York City real estate startup Compass laid off 15% of its workforce.

Cryptocurrency incubator ConsenSys laid off 91 employees, about 14% of its workforce.

Cloud software startup D2iQ (formerly known as Mesosphere) reportedly laid off 34 employees.

Boston-based AI company DataRobot let go of an undisclosed number of staffers.

Smart office startup Envoy laid off or furloughed 30% of its 195 workers.

Event management service Eventbrite laid off half its workforce as events worldwide are canceled.

Fashion startup Everlane laid off and furloughed 200 employees from its retail and backend departments.

Boston-based corporate catering startup ezCater laid off over 400 of its 900 employees.

Minneapolis-based food delivery service Foodsby laid off an undisclosed number of workers.

In Silicon Alley, four startups—online mattress retailer Eight Sleep, technical recruiter Triplebyte, hospitality startup The Guild, and luxury sleeper-bus service Cabin—laid off about 75 people between them.

Car rental startup GetAround let go of around 100 workers due to the impact of the coronavirus.

Discount services and experiences platform Groupon will lay off or furlough around 2,800 employees.

Iris Nova, a drink startup backed by Coca-Cola, let go of 50% of its staff.

Trucking unicorn KeepTruckin let go of one-fifth of its employees.

Office space leasing company Knotel cut half of its 400 employees.

Komodo Health reportedly laid off 9% of its workforce.

Cannabis startup Leafly dismissed 91 workers, following a round of layoffs from two months prior.

Boston-based travel startup Lola laid off 34 employees, reportedly among the first full-time tech casualties of the coronavirus crisis.

Mixed reality company Magic Leap reportedly laid off 1,000 employees.

Interior design and e-commerce platform Modsy let go of an undisclosed number of employees.

Homebuying startup Opendoor let 600 employees go, equaling about 35% of its workforce.

Overtime, the Kevin Durant-backed sports media company, parted ways with 20% of its employees.

HR tech company PerkSpot let 10 employees go.

IT infrastructure company Pivot3 laid off an undisclosed number of workers.

High end clothing rental service Rent The Runway laid off all retail employees across the country.

Remote work and travel company Remote Year laid off about 50 employees.

Oil, gas and alternative energy marketplace RigUp let go of 25% of its workforce.

Petsitting platform Rover laid off 41% of its workers.

Sales enablement company ShowPad laid off 52 employees.

Apartment rental startup Sonder laid off or furloughed 400 employees, equaling roughly 30% of its workforce.

Chicago parking startup SpotHero laid off an undisclosed number of employees.

Artificial intelligence writing platform Textio laid off 30 workers.

Tasking platform Thumbtack let go of 25o employees.

Travel manager TripActions laid off 300 workers—about 25% of its staff—mostly across customer support, recruiting and sales.

Photo editing app makers VSCO let 45 employees go.

Wonderschool, backed by Andreeson-Horowitz, let go of 75% of its staff.

Yelp laid off or furloughed more than 2,000 workers—a 17% staff reduction.

Online hiring marketplace ZipRecruiter laid off or indefinitely furloughed 400 of its approximately 1,200 full-time employees.

AirBnb-backed business travel company Zeus Living cut 30% of its staff.

Sports & Fitness

The NBA’s Utah Jazz laid off an undisclosed “small percentage” of its workforce.

Maryland-based yoga chain CorePower Yoga let go of 193 workers across five studios.

Golden Gate Parks racetrack in California laid off around 140 workers.

The WWE, owned by billionaire Vince McMahon, cut at least 15 wrestling stars from its lineup.

After canceling its comeback season in March, the XFL, also owned by Vince McMahon, suspended operations and laid off all of its employees.

Utilities

Satellite TV provider Dish is laying off an undisclosed number of its 16,000 employees.

Elsewhere

Boston’s Tea Party Ships & Museum, along with Old Town Trolley Cars, laid off an undisclosed number of employees.

Central Ohio’s YMCA cut 85% of its workforce, consisting of over 1,400 part-time workers and 320 full-time workers.

The Fitler Club, a dining, accommodations and co-working space in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dismissed nearly 240 workers.

The Greater Philadelphia YMCA laid off 4,000 workers after its childcare and gym revenue dropped.

In California, Lucky Chances Casino let go of nearly 490 workers, while California Grand Casino cut 190 positions.

The National Rifle Association reportedly laid off 60 employees following the cancellation of its annual meeting.

The Oneida Nation Native American tribe laid off or furloughed nearly 2,000 workers after revenue dropped at its casino.

The mayor of Tombstone, Arizona, who runs a historic stagecoach tour business of the town, had to let go of 175 workers.

Women’s co-working company The Wing laid off almost all of its space teams and half of its HQ staff.

What to watch for: If any U.S. airlines end up laying off workers. Delta Airlines said it would cut flights and freeze hiring. American Airlines is also cutting flights, and delaying trainings for new flight attendants and pilots. United Airlines said it might have to reduce its staff this fall if economic recovery proves to be slow.

What we don’t know: Exactly how many restaurant workers have been laid off due to the pandemic. New York City, a dining mecca, has about 27,000 eating and drinking establishments that were staffed by over 300,000 people. Restaurants are able to fulfill delivery and takeout orders, but can do so using skeleton crews.

Big number: 50%. That’s how many U.S. companies are considering layoffs, according to a survey released by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the country’s oldest outplacement firm. And the Federal Reserve of St. Louis estimated that 47 million jobs could be lost due to the coronavirus crisis. The numbers come on the heels of the 26 million American workers who filed for unemployment since the crisis began, according to data released Thursday, an all-time high.

Key background: There are now over 979,000 reported coronavirus cases in the U.S. and more than 55,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide cases now amount to over 3 million infected and 209,000 dead. Meanwhile, President Trump signed a coronavirus relief bill into law that provides free testing and paid sick leave, along with a $2 trillion stimulus package and a subsequent $484 billion relief bill. At least 42 states have enacted stay-at-home orders that affect 316 million people or more. Cancelations of concerts, sports leagues, festivals, religious gatherings and other large events have impacted millions of people. President Trump enacted a 30 day travel ban from Europe that sent airlines and travelers scrambling to adjust, before declaring a national state of emergency. Some states, like Georgia, South Carolina, and North Dakota are beginning to ease restrictions, but most health experts agree that social distancing and business shutdowns continue to be necessary to reduce the virus’ spread. But the uncertainty over how and when the entire country—and its citizens—can resume normal life is a specter hanging over businesses, as they decide whether to cut workers.

Further reading:

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All Burgerville locations are actually part if one singular organism. Their influence on the greater scale is limited, but their power within their range is absolute. Damage inflicted upon them can be shed easily, as they charge forms with the seasons.

Random Headcanon: Ronald McDonald regenerates when killed, horror movie monster style, but the Burger King’s immortality is dependent on serial reincarnation. That’s why the latter tends to disappear from the public eye for a couple of decades every now and then; when Ronald loses a fight in their eternal struggle for dominion over all fast food, he’s fine in like a week, but when the King goes down, he needs to wait for his reincarnation to grow up.

(Though this would seem to give Ronald an insurmountable advantage, it’s less decisive than you’d think, because Ronald is actually kind of terrible in a fight. The knowledge that he only needs to win once makes him sloppy.)