
STAND UP FOR D.C. RESTAURANT WORKERS
Hundreds of workers at some of D.C.’s most prominent and lucrative restaurants – including Le Diplomate and Rasika – have been organizing to join UNITE HERE Local 25. These workers have endured months of union busting from their employers – STARR Restaurants and Knightsbridge Restaurant Group.
D.C. Restaurant workers have been holding informational picket lines outside STARR and Knightsbridge Restaurants, including STARR’s Osteria Mozza, The Occidental and Le Diplomate, and Knightsbridge’s Rasika, Modena and Bombay Club. Now, workers are calling for D.C. customers to boycott these restaurants, asking the public not to eat, meet or drink at these locations.
UNION BUSTING HAS NO PLACE IN D.C. RESTAURANTS!
Pledge to honor the D.C. restaurant workers union boycott of STARR’s Osteria Mozza, The Occidental and Le Diplomate, and Knightsbridge’s Rasika, Modena and Bombay Club.
SIGN THE PLEDGE
WHAT WORKERS ARE SAYING
“When a supermajority of us told management we wanted to unionize, they refused to listen, and instead began an anti-union campaign. Months later, and they still are not respecting our call for a fair process to unionize. Customers – we are asking you to stay away from Le Diplomate.”
—Anonymous Le Diplomate Worker
“Trust me, you do not want to eat at The Occidental with a picket line outside. Please respect our boycott call and do not come in for a meal, drink, or gathering of any kind.”
—Anonymous Occidental Worker
“The man who owns this restaurant accused me and my coworkers of wanting to file a lawsuit against his company. In a meeting, he asked me “how much” I want. Less than a month later, when I was publicly in support of organizing a union, I was fired.”
—Halis Rodriguez, a former polisher at Rasika
FEATURED SUPPORTERS FROM THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Adams, Alma (D-NC)
- Ansari, Yassamin (D-AZ)
- Beyer, Don (D-VA)
- Boyle, Brendan (D-PA)
- Casar, Greg (D-TX)
- Cisneros, Gil (D-CA)
- Correa Lou (D-CA)
- Crow, Jason (D-CO)
- DeLauro, Rosa (D-CT)
- DelBene, Suzan (D-WA)
- Deluzio, Chris (D-PA)
- Doggett, Lloyd (D-TX)
- Evans, Dwight (D-PA)
- Garamendi, John (D-CA)
- García, Chuy (D-IL)
- Garcia, Robert (D-CA)
- Garcia, Sylvia (D-TX)
- Gluesenkamp-Perez, Marie (D-WA)
- Golden, Jared (D-ME)
- Goldman, Dan (D-NY)
- Horsford, Steven (D-NV)
- Ivey, Glenn (D-MD)
- Hoyle, Val (D-OR)
- Jacobs, Sara (D-CA)
- Johnson, Hank (D-GA)
- Kennedy, Timothy M. (D-NY)
- Khanna, Ro (D-CA)
- Landsman, Greg (D-OH)
- Larson, John (D-CT)
- Lee, Susie (D-NV)
- Lynch, Stephen (D-MA)
- Magaziner, Seth (D-RI)
- Mannion, John (D-NY)
- McBride, Sarah (D-DE)
- Mfume, Kweisi (D-MD)
- Nadler, Jerry (D-NY)
- Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria (D-NY)
- Omar, Ilhan (D-MN)
- Pelosi, Nancy (D-CA)
- Pingree, Chellie (D-ME)
- Pressley, Ayanna (D-MA)
- Ramirez, Delia (D-IL)
- Raskin, Jamie (D-MD)
- Ruiz, Raul (D-CA)
- Scanlon, Mary Gay (D-PA)
- Schakowsky, Jan (D-IL)
- Sherman, Brad (D-CA)
- Stansbury, Melanie (D-NM)
- Subramanyam, Suhas (D-VA)
- Takano, Mark (D-NY)
- Thanedar, Shri (D-MI)
- Thompson, Bennie (D-MS)
- Titus, Dina (D-NV)
- Tlaib, Rashida (D-MI)
- Tokuda, Jill (D-HI)
- Veasey, Marc (D-TX)
- Vindman, Eugene (D-VA)
- Williams, Nikema (D-GA)
FEATURED SUPPORTERS FROM THE U.S. SENATE
- Blumenthal, Richard (D-CT)
- Blunt Rochester, Lisa (D-DE)
- Cortez-Masto, Catherine (D-NV)
- Duckworth, Tammy (D-IL)
- Markey, Ed (D-MA)
- Murphy, Chris (D-CT)
- Peters, Gary (D-MI)
- Rosen, Jackie (D-NV)
- Sanders, Bernie (I-VT)
- Schumer, Chuck (D-NY)
- Slotkin, Elissa (D-MI)
- Van Hollen, Chris (D-MD)
- Warren, Elizabeth (D-MA)