The Restaurant Opportunities Center is a labor union front group disguised as a restaurant industry employment center and watchdog. ROC regularly issues factually flawed reports, files ridiculous lawsuits, and leads protests that harm many of the restaurant employees they claim to represent, all in … Continue reading →

According to the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) official history, the organization was originally created to serve as a resource for restaurant workers displaced by the Sept 11th attacks that destroyed Windows on the World, a restaurant at the top of … Continue reading →

At its inception, ROC—which was originally called ROC-NY—emerged from two funds established by the union that represented workers at Windows on the World, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (That union subsequently merged into UNITE-HERE in 2004, and … Continue reading →