The St. Louis workers’ movement is launching a statewide campaign for a “Food Service Workers’ Bill of Rights.” After a win for the labor movement on a vote to unionize Alamo Drafthouse workers, food service workers plan to gather Tuesday at Chouteau Park to rally behind the effort.
The bill of rights is a 10-point platform proposing industry standards that the campaign said will make food service jobs livable as the cost of living rises. They include big-ticket items like a $25 inflation-adjusted minimum wage, employer-matched retirement plans and paid healthcare.
Bagel Union sous chef Derek Graue, who calls himself a restaurant lifer, said that he enjoys the creativity away from a desk job but that it’s hard to make ends meet…