Food Workers, in their own stories

18 November, 2015

East Bay Express | by Luke Tsai "I fell for it," says Dominic Ware, his voice tinged with sarcasm. "For that brief moment, I was like, okay, this is how you get the American slice of the pie." Ware, an Oakland native, is talking about his first days as a cart-pusher at the Walmart in San Leandro, and he's having a conversation with a new acquaintance, Luis DeLeon, a cook on a cruise ship. DeLeon chuckles, probably because he has heard this kind of pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps narrati [...]