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Posted inNews

French Truck coffee shop on Chartres Street votes to unionize

Michael Isaac Stein by Michael Isaac Stein September 26, 2023September 26, 2023

The workers of the French Truck coffee shop on Chartres Street have formed a union, voting 8-0 in a federal union election held last Wednesday.  “We have done something pretty awesome here,” Mat Ricciardo, one of the French Truck baristas and organizers, told Verite.  The vote makes the French Truck location the third New Orleans […]

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