Deli workers want another helping
WORKERS AT a famous Manhattan deli are in a real pickle after getting laid off at the end of the holiday season.
Thirty-five members of UNITE—HERE Local 100 marched outside Carnegie Deli at 55th St. and Seventh Ave. on Friday — waving picket signs and chanting, “Bring back our deli jobs.”
The diner — famous for its gut-busting sandwiches — told its employees in September that it would close for good at the end of December, according to a spokeswoman for the owner.
But its employees haven’t given up hope on a reprieve.
“We are here (to beg) the owner of the Carnegie to reopen and accept all of the employees that work here to come back to work for her,” said Rachaneeuuan Sriphud, 63, of Queens. THE URN holding Carrie Fisher’s remains is an oversized antidepressant.
The “Star Wars” actress, who was laid to rest alongside her mother Debbie Reynolds Friday, was open about her struggles with addiction and mental illness.
“Carrie’s favorite possession was a giant Prozac pill that she bought many years ago,” her brother Todd Fisher said as he left the private joint funeral at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills for his mother and sister. “She loved it, and it was in her house, and (Fisher’s daughter) Billie (Lourde) and I felt it was where she’d want to be.”
Fisher, died at age 60 on Dec. 27. Reynolds, star of “Singin’ in the Rain” and many other classic movies, died a day later at age 84.