My latest labor column is up! Unfortunately, it's about a coffee shop I really liked :(

Perhaps it was naive of me when I began writing my labor column, The Worker’s View, for Matter News earlier this year, to think that I surely wouldn’t be writing about labor issues at places I liked and frequented. But I was wrong.

The latest in this string of disappointments is Parable, the now-shuttered downtown coffee shop that built its business on paying its employees a living wage. Turns out that, in the end, they weren’t paying employees at all. It brings me no joy to have had to write my latest column, but it had to be done, and it was the right thing to do—so, here we are.