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Mental Health Vol. 70 No. 30
JUlY 21 - 27, 2022
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Union vote may be on horizon for Starbucks and paid time off. Jake McAvoy, a shift supervisor and union campaign organizTo unionize or not to union- er at the 1143 Wantagh Ave., locaize? That’s the question facing tion, said that the coronavirus employees at a Wantagh Star- pandemic had swiftly and drabucks, which became the fifth matically brought to the surface location on Long underlying labor Island to put the issues that plagued question up for an Starbucks workers employee vote last fo r s o m e t i m e. month. “While there were Starbucks workproblems before,” he ers filed a petition said, “the pandemic with the National really brought into L a b o r Re l a t i o n s focus many of the Board to unionize problems we had under Starbucks encountered.” Wo rke r s U n i t e d , The 27-year-old which is affiliated McAvoy, who began with the Service working at the store Employees Internain November 2018, tional Union. The said that while he original union vote, and his co-workers scheduled for this were manning the month, will instead store during the panbe a mail-in ballot demic as front-line JaKe McaVoY ending Sept. 2. workers late last The move is part Starbucks employee year, regularly putof a nationwide ting their health at workplace tug of risk, management war between Starbucks and its often pushed them to endure employees that is now brewing alarming levels of workplace here. By unionizing, employees stress. Employees were often are hoping to have a bigger say pressured to come to work even in their working conditions, when they had been in contact including more consistent work with others who tested positive hours, higher wages, and better for Covid-19, McAvoy said. safeguards of their sick leave Continued on page 9
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THe WaNTagH PreserVaTioN Society hosted an Antique Car Show on July 16.
Wantagh Preservation Society puts on a vintage car show By KariNa KoVaC kkovac@liherald.com
The Wantagh Preservation Society had a jam-packed day on Saturday, hosting its first Antique Car Show and dedicating roughly onethird of an acre of land that it has acquired next to the Wantagh Museum. Tom Watson, the society’s president, said the land used to be a backyard, but the museum can now use it as a “passive park,” which will give the car show room to grow. “Because we got the new piece of land, it gave us a little more elbow room,” Watson said. “Because this was our first show, we weren’t sure how many cars would show up. So we definitely had about 40 cars we were able to fit. If we had gotten 50 or 55 cars that showed up, we wouldn’t have room. Next year, as the event gets
more popular, we’ll probably get more cars in front and cars in back.” Not a car guy necessarily, Watson learned how big the car culture on the South Shore is when he was putting the show together. “Organizing this event, I realized there are a lot of people in Seaford, Massapequa, Wantagh, Bellmore that have old cars,” he said. “I’d say of the 40 here, there are about 30 locals from Wantagh.” Frank Martucci, of Bellmore, was happy to talk to passersby about his “Bugmobile,” a 1958 Oldsmobile Super 88 decked out with plastic bugs and information on critters like the “bug of the week,” something Martucci changes up at each car show he attends. This time, the bug was a Japanese garden spider. “The Bugmobile is a memory of a day in JerContinued on page 4
hile there were problems before, the pandemic really brought into focus many of the problems we had encountered.