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Restaurant Workers May Strike
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Jen Chung
Published Oct 27, 2003
Modified Mar 6, 2008
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Various restaurant workers may strike tomorrow as their union is in negotiations with 25 restaurants owners over wages and benefits. The restaurants include Lutece, Four Seasons, Elaine's and Cafe des Artistes. The Daily News reports, "Restaurant owners have called for health-insurance cutbacks and balked at the union's proposed $20-a-week raise for kitchen workers. The restaurants instead have offered a $7.50 weekly raise for cooks, and a $5 weekly boost for dishwashers." But since this would spell a shutdown, Gothamist suspects a compromise will be in the works. In the meantime, there are plans for the waiters, cooks, dishwashers and the busing staffs to march from the Four Season's to Gallagher's Steak House on 52nd Street tomorrow.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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