“Forty-five people have been thrown out on the street.”
About 83 percent of the 90 hotel workers eligible for the union signed cards–including almost 50 Moon Rabbit employees, according to Paul Schwalb, executive secretary treasurer of UNITE HERE. Earlier this week, Moon Rabbit staffers were told the restaurant was closing and they wouldn’t be given any more hours.
Howie Posely, who’s worked at the hotel since 2019, first heard about the union effort three months ago. She was immediately interested. “[We’ve] had turn over of a million managers. There’s only one manager that’s still there from the beginning,” she said. “It’s crazy. The house was like, shaking. It was a mess and it just got worse.”
After Posely finished her shift at Moon Rabbit on Monday, the General Manager and HR team pulled staff into a meeting. They were told the restaurant was closing and chef Kevin Tien, who was on the shortlist for a James Beard award earlier this year, said his goodbyes. Another Moon Rabbit employee, Michael Cruz, became interested in unionizing because he was concerned about transparency in tip allocation. He said it was unclear where service fees were going, and it would take weeks to see missing tips show up in paychecks. The revolving door of managers meant no one was held accountable. When he reached out to the union on his own, he found out several other workers had done the same.
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