Dave Infante at Fingers reports the Staff of one of the world’s best cocktail bars has gone Union. Workers employed at Attaboy, an influential cocktail bar in New York City that is often ranked among the global hospitality industry’s most elite outfits, went public with a Union drive. They are organizing independently as Attaboy Local 134. A press release issued by the Union did not include the number of Workers involved in the drive, or the overall headcount at the prestigious bar, which was founded in 2013 and recognized as North America’s best in 2022 by The 50 Best Awards. Bartender Zack Gelnaw-Rubin told Fingers the proposed Bargaining Unit is composed of 18 roles - but declined to share the percentage of Workers who signed Union Cards. The drive is significant both because of Attaboy’s global prominence in cocktails/hospitality - and because that sector has been especially resistant to organizing even amid historic popular support for the Labor Movement.

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