With just days until Christmas, a Chicago sandwich shop abruptly fired all 20 of its employees via email Sunday night.
Colorado-based Snarf's Sub Shop said it was closing its lone Chicago location in the River North neighborhood effective Monday for an "unknown period of time for this remodeling and reconcepting," according to the email sent to Snaf's employees and obtained by Grid Chicago.
(Read the full email from Snarf's firing 20 Chicago employees.)
In the email's eight-item list, number three was the kicker: "All staff is terminated, effective Monday, December 23, 2013." Per the email, staff members were informed they could apply for unemployment and were invited to "keep an eye out for the grand opening of the new store."
Calls to the Snarf's 600 W. Chicago Ave. location Monday went unanswered. A message left at the chain's Colorado headquarters was not immediately returned.
Several Snarf's employees walked off the job earlier this month during a nationwide strike by fast food workers demanding higher wages.
Snarf's River North location was forced to close for four days during the demonstration. Chicago advocacy group Fight For 15 blasted the firings as retaliation for the earlier strike and called on Snarf's to re-hire the workers:
A Snarf's spokesperson confirmed the closing to Grid, while other company officials insisted the closing had been planned "for a while" and was not in retaliation for the strike.
In early December, Snarf's employee Kait Ziegler told the Sun-Times, "I have no problem making wages that are appropriate to my work, but it’s impossible to live on the wages we make."
Ziegler, who earned $9.50 an hour working at Snarf's part-time in addition to two other jobs, added: “Certain people seem so upset that we’re asking for more because I suppose that service workers, to some people, should stay at the very bottom.”
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Colorado-based Snarf's Sub Shop said it was closing its lone Chicago location in the River North neighborhood effective Monday for an "unknown period of time for this remodeling and reconcepting," according to the email sent to Snaf's employees and obtained by Grid Chicago.
(Read the full email from Snarf's firing 20 Chicago employees.)
In the email's eight-item list, number three was the kicker: "All staff is terminated, effective Monday, December 23, 2013." Per the email, staff members were informed they could apply for unemployment and were invited to "keep an eye out for the grand opening of the new store."
Calls to the Snarf's 600 W. Chicago Ave. location Monday went unanswered. A message left at the chain's Colorado headquarters was not immediately returned.
Several Snarf's employees walked off the job earlier this month during a nationwide strike by fast food workers demanding higher wages.
Snarf's River North location was forced to close for four days during the demonstration. Chicago advocacy group Fight For 15 blasted the firings as retaliation for the earlier strike and called on Snarf's to re-hire the workers:
Shame on #Snarfs for terminating their employees 3 days b4 #XMas
Call 720-389-7920
demand they hire everyone back pic.twitter.com/b5K3AWJ7iu
— Fight For 15 (@fightfor15) December 23, 2013
A Snarf's spokesperson confirmed the closing to Grid, while other company officials insisted the closing had been planned "for a while" and was not in retaliation for the strike.
In early December, Snarf's employee Kait Ziegler told the Sun-Times, "I have no problem making wages that are appropriate to my work, but it’s impossible to live on the wages we make."
Ziegler, who earned $9.50 an hour working at Snarf's part-time in addition to two other jobs, added: “Certain people seem so upset that we’re asking for more because I suppose that service workers, to some people, should stay at the very bottom.”
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