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Leroy N. Soetoro
Aug 10, 2021, 12:49:18 PM8/10/21
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https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/fleishers-closed-after-staff-walks-out-over-
blm-sign-removal/
Brooklyn-based “rockstar butcher” Fleisher’s has been forced to close its
stores because dozens of workers reportedly walked off the job after the
CEO removed Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride signs that employees had
put in the storefront windows.
The company’s website says all of its locations, its two stores in New
York City and two others in Connecticut, are “temporarily closed.”
A notice at Fleisher’s Upper East Side shop said the store won’t reopen
until at least the end of August.
The beef between workers and management began last month, when Rob
Rosania, a leading investor in the butcher, received a text from a pal in
Westport, Conn. who was offended by BLM signs in the company’s local
storefront, Forbes reported.
Rosania, a San Francisco-based real estate developer, reportedly called
Fleisher’s CEO John Adams and told him to get rid of the signs.
Adams, who’s just two months into the job, jumped on a train from New York
to Fleisher’s stores in Westport and Greenwich to remove the signs
himself, according to Forbes.
He then did the same in the company’s New York City stores, the report
said.
Fleisher’s workers told Forbes that Adams had joined the company with the
promise of bringing accountability to the workforce of about 40, at least
half of whom identify as BIPOC or non-binary or queer.
“I told him he failed at that,” said Ajani Thompson, 32, the only Black
employee at the butcher’s store in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood,
according to Forbes. “You were trying to get our trust, and I don’t feel
comfortable here. I don’t feel safe coming into work because you didn’t do
that.”
Thompson told the outlet that workers hoped Adams would serve as a buffer
between them and Rosania, who has gotten more involved since he first
invested in 2015.
The worker walkout left Fleisher’s, which has established a reputation for
high-end and pricey meats, unable to operate, and the nationwide labor
shortage means it’s unlikely the company will be able to quickly replace
its staff.
Adams tried to relent, putting the BLM and LGBTQ pride signs back up
within 24 hours of removing them and even sending photos to employees as
proof, Forbes reported.
Adams did not return The Post’s request for comment. According to Forbes,
Rosania apologized in a letter to staff.
Thompson told Forbes that he resigned immediately along with two dozen of
his colleagues when they walked off the job. Others, he said, are waiting
to be fired.
“Think of me as an equal and none of this needed to happen,” Thompson told
the outlet. “It’s messed up to think of someone as less-than and then want
them to provide for you.”
Fleisher’s was founded in 2004 by Joshua and Jessica Applestone, who The
New York Times crowned “rockstar butchers” in a 2009 feature. They sold
the business in 2013 and are no longer affiliated with it, Jessica
Applestone told The Post.
Let it starve to death for business and die.
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fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
blm-sign-removal/
Brooklyn-based “rockstar butcher” Fleisher’s has been forced to close its
stores because dozens of workers reportedly walked off the job after the
CEO removed Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride signs that employees had
put in the storefront windows.
The company’s website says all of its locations, its two stores in New
York City and two others in Connecticut, are “temporarily closed.”
A notice at Fleisher’s Upper East Side shop said the store won’t reopen
until at least the end of August.
The beef between workers and management began last month, when Rob
Rosania, a leading investor in the butcher, received a text from a pal in
Westport, Conn. who was offended by BLM signs in the company’s local
storefront, Forbes reported.
Rosania, a San Francisco-based real estate developer, reportedly called
Fleisher’s CEO John Adams and told him to get rid of the signs.
Adams, who’s just two months into the job, jumped on a train from New York
to Fleisher’s stores in Westport and Greenwich to remove the signs
himself, according to Forbes.
He then did the same in the company’s New York City stores, the report
said.
Fleisher’s workers told Forbes that Adams had joined the company with the
promise of bringing accountability to the workforce of about 40, at least
half of whom identify as BIPOC or non-binary or queer.
“I told him he failed at that,” said Ajani Thompson, 32, the only Black
employee at the butcher’s store in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood,
according to Forbes. “You were trying to get our trust, and I don’t feel
comfortable here. I don’t feel safe coming into work because you didn’t do
that.”
Thompson told the outlet that workers hoped Adams would serve as a buffer
between them and Rosania, who has gotten more involved since he first
invested in 2015.
The worker walkout left Fleisher’s, which has established a reputation for
high-end and pricey meats, unable to operate, and the nationwide labor
shortage means it’s unlikely the company will be able to quickly replace
its staff.
Adams tried to relent, putting the BLM and LGBTQ pride signs back up
within 24 hours of removing them and even sending photos to employees as
proof, Forbes reported.
Adams did not return The Post’s request for comment. According to Forbes,
Rosania apologized in a letter to staff.
Thompson told Forbes that he resigned immediately along with two dozen of
his colleagues when they walked off the job. Others, he said, are waiting
to be fired.
“Think of me as an equal and none of this needed to happen,” Thompson told
the outlet. “It’s messed up to think of someone as less-than and then want
them to provide for you.”
Fleisher’s was founded in 2004 by Joshua and Jessica Applestone, who The
New York Times crowned “rockstar butchers” in a 2009 feature. They sold
the business in 2013 and are no longer affiliated with it, Jessica
Applestone told The Post.
Let it starve to death for business and die.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
BeamMeUpScotty
Aug 10, 2021, 1:01:39 PM8/10/21
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On 8/10/21 12:49 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/fleishers-closed-after-staff-walks-out-over-
> blm-sign-removal/
>
> Brooklyn-based “rockstar butcher” Fleisher’s has been forced to close its
> stores because dozens of workers reportedly walked off the job after the
> CEO removed Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride signs that employees had
> put in the storefront windows.
Hire new people and pay them more..... It's NOT rocket surgery or brain
> https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/fleishers-closed-after-staff-walks-out-over-
> blm-sign-removal/
>
> Brooklyn-based “rockstar butcher” Fleisher’s has been forced to close its
> stores because dozens of workers reportedly walked off the job after the
> CEO removed Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride signs that employees had
> put in the storefront windows.
science.
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Blacks.
Censorship of this document in whole or part, is an admission of your
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BeamMeUpScotty
Aug 10, 2021, 1:09:39 PM8/10/21
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On 8/10/21 12:49 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/fleishers-closed-after-staff-walks-out-over-
> blm-sign-removal/
>
> Brooklyn-based “rockstar butcher” Fleisher’s has been forced to close its
> stores because dozens of workers reportedly walked off the job after the
> CEO removed Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride signs that employees had
> put in the storefront windows.
> blm-sign-removal/
>
> Brooklyn-based “rockstar butcher” Fleisher’s has been forced to close its
> stores because dozens of workers reportedly walked off the job after the
> CEO removed Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride signs that employees had
> put in the storefront windows.
Hire new people and pay them more..... It's NOT rocket surgery or brain
science.
When you raise the price of the food the people that walked out/QUIT
science.
will then have to buy higher priced food while working at McDonald's or
on their EBT cards.
Too bad for them.
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That's Karma
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Never trust what Democrats or Marxists tell you. Make them prove it with
actual verifiable facts and science. And if you didn't find the
duplicitous lies in what the Marxist-Democrats told you then you didn't
dig deep enough. The *Gruber Doctrine* is the Marxist-Democrat plan that
says it's "to the Democrats advantage to have a lack of transparency and
then lie about everything".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G790p0LcgbI
*The next rule of SURVIVAL CLUB is*
232 - Obama was NOT redistributing what counts, and that is the ability
to create wealth and products, that's *NOT* something Obama could
transfer "just like he couldn't write an executive order creating
another Mozart" instead Obama was attacking wealth creation and
attacking production and the people that do it.... the result was less
of both so he had less and less to redistribute. What's sad is that
Obama the Socialist, isn't even a very smart Socialist. How can you
redistribute what you don't have, the French "Socialist Prime Minister"
learned that in less time than Obama and the French Prime Minister
wasn't touted as the Harvard Genius that Obama was.
Ruben Safir
Aug 15, 2021, 10:50:18 AM8/15/21
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In nyc.politics Leroy N. Soetoro <democrat-...@mail.house.gov> wrote:
> https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/fleishers-closed-after-staff-walks-out-over-
> blm-sign-removal/
>
> Brooklyn-based ?rockstar butcher? Fleisher?s has been forced to close its
> https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/fleishers-closed-after-staff-walks-out-over-
> blm-sign-removal/
>
> stores because dozens of workers reportedly walked off the job after the
> CEO removed Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride signs that employees had
> put in the storefront windows.
>
Good,
> CEO removed Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride signs that employees had
> put in the storefront windows.
>
It is better for Fleisher to close than to submit to blackmail by a
bunch of racists half-wits.
They'll reopen though, and be better for it.
Ruben Safir
Aug 15, 2021, 11:02:04 AM8/15/21
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QUOTE:
The company, which brands itself as a “neighborhood butcher†shop “making a positive difference†on its website, focused instead on recovering from debt amassed in its first decade of operations, former employees allege. In a statement to Eater, Rosania said, “I have reinvested my own capital into the company during the pandemic to return our stores to being cash flow positive, which they now are.†Fleishers has an estimated revenue of between $5 and $10 million, according to Forbes, but the business is not profitable.
In Westport, former assistant manager Christopher Edmunds estimates the butcher shop went from losing around $5,000 per week when he joined the company in August 2018 to being cash-flow-positive when he resigned last month. Getting there, however, may have come at a cost to store employees, who say vendor and staff relationships suffered.
UNQUOTE
They are clearly better off without the dead beats and focusing on
making a profit.
Their employee relationships is obviously sinking the business. Now
they can clean house and make some money.
In nyc.politics Leroy N. Soetoro <democrat-...@mail.house.gov> wrote:
> https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/fleishers-closed-after-staff-walks-out-over-
> blm-sign-removal/
>
> stores because dozens of workers reportedly walked off the job after the
> CEO removed Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride signs that employees had
> put in the storefront windows.
>
> The company?s website says all of its locations, its two stores in New
> CEO removed Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride signs that employees had
> put in the storefront windows.
>
> York City and two others in Connecticut, are ?temporarily closed.?
>
> A notice at Fleisher?s Upper East Side shop said the store won?t reopen
> until at least the end of August.
>
> The beef between workers and management began last month, when Rob
> Rosania, a leading investor in the butcher, received a text from a pal in
> Westport, Conn. who was offended by BLM signs in the company?s local
>
> The beef between workers and management began last month, when Rob
> Rosania, a leading investor in the butcher, received a text from a pal in
> storefront, Forbes reported.
>
> Rosania, a San Francisco-based real estate developer, reportedly called
> Fleisher?s CEO John Adams and told him to get rid of the signs.
>
> Rosania, a San Francisco-based real estate developer, reportedly called
>
> Adams, who?s just two months into the job, jumped on a train from New York
> to Fleisher?s stores in Westport and Greenwich to remove the signs
> himself, according to Forbes.
>
> He then did the same in the company?s New York City stores, the report
> said.
>
> Fleisher?s workers told Forbes that Adams had joined the company with the
> promise of bringing accountability to the workforce of about 40, at least
> half of whom identify as BIPOC or non-binary or queer.
>
> ?I told him he failed at that,? said Ajani Thompson, 32, the only Black
> half of whom identify as BIPOC or non-binary or queer.
>
> employee at the butcher?s store in Brooklyn?s Park Slope neighborhood,
> according to Forbes. ?You were trying to get our trust, and I don?t feel
> comfortable here. I don?t feel safe coming into work because you didn?t do
> that.?
>
> Thompson told the outlet that workers hoped Adams would serve as a buffer
> between them and Rosania, who has gotten more involved since he first
> invested in 2015.
>
> The worker walkout left Fleisher?s, which has established a reputation for
> Thompson told the outlet that workers hoped Adams would serve as a buffer
> between them and Rosania, who has gotten more involved since he first
> invested in 2015.
>
> high-end and pricey meats, unable to operate, and the nationwide labor
> shortage means it?s unlikely the company will be able to quickly replace
> its staff.
>
> Adams tried to relent, putting the BLM and LGBTQ pride signs back up
> within 24 hours of removing them and even sending photos to employees as
> proof, Forbes reported.
>
> Adams did not return The Post?s request for comment. According to Forbes,
>
> Adams tried to relent, putting the BLM and LGBTQ pride signs back up
> within 24 hours of removing them and even sending photos to employees as
> proof, Forbes reported.
>
> Rosania apologized in a letter to staff.
>
> Thompson told Forbes that he resigned immediately along with two dozen of
> his colleagues when they walked off the job. Others, he said, are waiting
> to be fired.
>
> ?Think of me as an equal and none of this needed to happen,? Thompson told
>
> Thompson told Forbes that he resigned immediately along with two dozen of
> his colleagues when they walked off the job. Others, he said, are waiting
> to be fired.
>
> the outlet. ?It?s messed up to think of someone as less-than and then want
> them to provide for you.?
>
> Fleisher?s was founded in 2004 by Joshua and Jessica Applestone, who The
> New York Times crowned ?rockstar butchers? in a 2009 feature. They sold
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