Kathy Mansilla woke up on the morning of Aug. 25 to find that she no longer had a job as a senior server at Rose Lane, a Manhattan hotel bar and restaurant that had employed her for three years. The news came just a few days after she and her coworkers filed paperwork to form a union.
All 21 employees at the establishment were terminated, Mansilla and other workers said.
“I’m still in shock that this is happening,” Mansilla said the evening of Aug. 25, as she held up a sign that read, “UNION BUSTING IS DISGUSTING,” at a picket line in front of the Park Lane Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Three dozen workers and supporters rallied to demand the workers’ reinstatement…