The first bullet point throws everything off and takes away some of the more significant/questionable policies this is suggesting.Read the full letter, gonna be blunt. While a few potentially legit employment law grievances toward the end, the language up front borders on obnoxious. I can't speak to the racial make-up of the back of the house, but I've never personally seen an African-American in the front of the house. It's incredibly tone deaf for primarily white employees to compare themselves TO SLAVES because they had to show up to a 9 a.m. meeting that should've been an email and have to shake the cold brew 10 times.
They have a point about the tips -- you can't pay a tip wage then tell them not to accept tips, should be paying at least minimum wage -- and I can't speak to the ADA issue, tho I doubt the Mouse would've let them build a noncompliant shop. But overall come off as petulant, overly dramatic children.
The low wages and the unsanitary conditions are more than enough to draw attention. No need to complain about a 9AM meeting that could have been an email... just about everyone unfortunately deals with that, it is far from being the worst thing to happen.
I didn't know (if true) that Gideon's only paid a tip wage. Find it distasteful a store that has (at any given time) an hour+ long wait-time with buyers ready to buy multiple items is struggling to provide (at a minimum) the FL minimum wage.
I also don't want to speak on behalf of anyone, but DS servers do decent tips, would imagine Gideon's does (to a smaller extent obviously) as well.