Organizers at the Rising Star Workers Union will be leading a rally this weekend to back recently fired employees.

On Sunday, from noon to 4 p.m., nine artists will be performing in a benefit show at Ohio City’s Kentucky Gardens to aid a handful of baristas who were fired from Rising Star's Lakewood location in midst of a union drive picking up steam in the past month.

And a timely one this week. Two more workers, Caleb Reese and Katelyn Bishop, were let go for apparently violating a company harassment policy, Reese confirmed with Scene. Five total have been let go since RSWU held a public “sip in” on August 3.

“I'm really upset about it. It sucks,” Reese said in a phone call on Friday. “It was two weeks before my five year anniversary with Rising Star. I've never been reprimanded other

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