Yea, they better think twice before rising up now. Big mistake.
“The owners think of us as machines. And that’s exactly how they treat us - as machines that turn bread and lettuce into money for them,” said Pratt Street driver and IWW member Brendan Camiel, “So it shouldn’t surprise us that they don’t think we need wages we can live on, or even basic respect. Why should they care about the money & time we spend maintaining our bikes & our bodies for them, or or the emotional & physical toll our working conditions take on us? We, the Jimmy John’s Workers Union, will force them to care.”
I found the above from a google search on “Brendan” and “IWW” (in one of the videos someone yelled “they shot Brendan”).
Not sure if it is the same guy, this article is from Baltimore and only two years old.
But - a search of this guys name, Brendan Camiel put him in highschool in 1999 as a 17-year old in Towson, MD. So it could be him - he would be 34 now. The high school article was about writing in the AP classes that were getting honors.
Regarding writing: “’You have to be bold and sensitive and honest,’ said Brendan Camiel, 17, of Towson.”