Red and Black Cafe
| Red and Black Cafe | |
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| address | 400 SE 12th Avenue |
| neighborhood | Buckman |
| food type | vegan |
| hours | permanently closed |
| wireless internet? | |
| website | RedAndBlackCafe.com |
| phone | (503) 231-3899 |
Red and Black Cafe was a worker-owned anarchist vegan restaurant located in the Buckman neighborhood (close in SE Portland) at SE 12th Avenue & SE Oak Street. For several years, the cafe's worker-owners were unionized with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the cafe was a closed shop (meaning all of its workers must be union members) with a union shop card. The cafe also belonged to the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives. During its peak years of activity, the cafe was a hub of radical activity in the Portland area, hosting many social justice oriented activists, speakers, and musical acts. Red and Black Cafe made international news when a worker asked a Portland police officer to leave the business.[1]
In November 2014, the General Executive Board of the IWW voted to revoke the IWW Cooperative Union Shop status for the cafe, citing the fact that no worker-owners remained in good standing with the union and that the cafe was not paying worker-owners, which was against union requirements that shops must not "undermine wages in their industry."[2]
On March 24, 2015, the cafe announced plans to close indefinitely.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Terry, Lynne (June 3, 2010). "Red & Black cafe shows Portland officer the door, won't sell him coffee again". The Oregonian.
- ↑ IWW Constituion, Article II, Sec. 4(b).
- ↑ Greif, Jessica (March 25, 2015). "Red and Black Cafe announces closing after 15 years in Portland". The Oregonian. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors. "Red and Black Cafe". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 15 Jan. 2024. Web.
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