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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Tentative Win!

The Atlanta Solidarity Network stepped it up today for what may very well be our last action against Belly General Store.  With supporters phone blasting both the shop and the owner’s cell phone and members of ASOL outside flyering, E. received a call from her former boss saying “If I pay you now, will this end.”  A clear indicator that ASOL communicated exactly what we intended to.  E. has been paid what she was owed in back pay today.  We’re very excited about our first win and terribly emboldened to take this project as far as we can.  We are calling this a tentative win because E. is owed one final pay check for her last week of work which will be due this Friday.  We hope Belly General Store doesn’t make the same mistake twice.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

ASOL vs. Belly General Store DAY 2

Some ASOLers went passing out fliers today outside of Belly General Store again, and also outside of Key Lime Pie Hair Salon - which is owned by the same woman as Belly.

Posters were also posted up and down the street decrying the exploitation of the workers at Belly.

Several people were deterred from entering Belly General Store after reading the fliers - so we returned to the store with tip money for the workers who may have lost out on some.

The manager attempted to kick us off of the sidewalk - which is a laughable misunderstanding of free speech.
Police showed up just as we were leaving.
Clear contempt for free expression.

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Monday, April 25, 2011

ASOL vs. Belly General Store DAY 1

Belly General Store has not met our demands - that E. be paid what she is owed within 48 hours as well as explanation on the money missing from the lackluster paycheck she did receive.

Today, Monday, April 25, we begin our mobilizing campaign.

For starters, we went out to Belly during the lunch rush and passed out fliers to everyone who walked by. A few people stopped and talked to us about it and even more people walked away closely examining the harrowing facts on the sheet.

At one point, an employee came out to yell at us on behalf of her bosses' interests: she told us that we could not pass out fliers to people walking by and that she was going to call the cops if we didn't leave. Naturally, we laughed - encouraged now, if not a bit confused.

If E. is not paid by the end of the day, we will continue mobilization tomorrow with further escalation.

We would love for you to help.

ASOL Delivers Demand Letter to Belly General Store

http://atlanta.indymedia.org/local/atlanta-solidarity-network-makes-their-first-demands

http://www.archive.org/details/AtlantaSolidarityNetworkMakesTheirFirstDemands

On Friday, at roughly 7:30pm, E. and 9 other ASOLers went to Key Lime Pie Hair Salon to deliver a demand letter to the manager of Belly General Store.
The letter delivery went smooth and was, we feel, crucially effective at getting the attention of the bosses.

The letter describes the dissatisfaction E. feels with the mistreatment from management and demands that she be paid all she is owed within 48 hours, as well as an explanation about the mysterious "-$98" that appeared on the only paycheck she did receive (which was $563 short) - she hasn't filled out tax forms, so where did this money go?



9 people show up in less than 30 minutes notice to help someone fight their boss? Very inspiring.

ASOL vs. Belly General Store!!!

The Atlanta Solidarity Network has decided to take on our first fight!

E., a cook at Belly General Store, came to ASOL because she had not been paid in her whole first month of employment.

After weeks of complaints and attempts to resolve the issue in person, email, and phone E. was finally paid....but only for her first week of employment!

They did not pay her for the first pay period, and nobody at the store got paid at the end of the second pay period until 4 days late.

The paycheck E. did receive had a strange"-$98" at the bottom of it - ostensibly for taxes, but the store hasn't even had E. file tax information yet! Where is that money going?

Belly General Store does not provide employees with a schedule; everyone is expected to be on-call 7 days a week.

We are prepared to fight this mistreatment and we would love for you to help!