‘We’re empowered now’: Ocean Hill café The Daily Press becomes first unionized indie coffee shop in New York City
‘We’re empowered now’: Ocean Hill café The Daily Press becomes first unionized indie coffee shop in New York City
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‘We’re empowered now’: Ocean Hill café The Daily Press becomes first unionized indie coffee shop in New York City • Brooklyn Paper
The Daily Press in Ocean Hill has unionized with Workers United NY/NJ to transform the café into a cooperatively-run business.
The Daily Press in Ocean Hill has partnered with Workers United NY/NJ — a North American labor labor union which represents nearly 86,000 workers, including recently-unionized Starbucks workers in Brooklyn – to transform the café into a cooperatively-run business. Now, all decisions regarding scheduling, wages, sick time and vacation are made democratically by the employees.