UNITE HERE Local 25: Pointing to Union Busting and Sexual Harassment Allegations at DC Restaurants, Restaurant Workers Call for Babbo Boycott on Opening Day
As diners arrive on the opening night at the revived Babbo in Greenwich Village, they will be greeted by Scabby, a large inflatable rat, and flyers that read: BOYCOTT BABBO. The Babbo boycott is an expansion of a months-long boycott of STARR-operated restaurants in Washington, D.C – Le Diplomate, The Occidental, and Osteria Mozza over the company’s union-busting. The boycott was called by restaurant workers with UNITE HERE Local 25, a D.C.-based hospitality workers’ union. The DC boycott has been endorsed by 80 Senators and members of Congress, including Senator Chuck Schumer, and Reps. Jared Goldman, Jerry Nadler, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
