Scabby the Rat Joins the Line for Babbo in Greenwich Village | Eater NY

"As a nearly two-year-old French bistro in D.C., this outpost has become a flashpoint: activists have pushed to unionize and filed NLRB complaints over alleged labor law violations, while a staff vote here resulted in “no” to unionizing. In a union release, one cook at Starr’s Pastis claimed a supervising chef grabbed her neck from behind and shook her, and a counter-campaign’s website, “Serving the Truth,” declares that “Workers at … Pastis have made their choice: no union.” (The original New York location is not involved in any unionization efforts.)" - Andrea Strong