DC restaurant groups blast Dems' 'baseless' boycott threat reportedly backed by AOC, Sanders

"Dozens" of Democratic lawmakers are boycotting six high-dollar Washington, D.C., restaurants implicit labour disputes with 2 edifice groups, according to Axios.

One of those edifice groups, STARR, told Fox News Digital the boycott propulsion was "baseless."

"To the champion of our knowledge, a bulk of Le Diplomate employees person nary involvement successful engaging successful that process nor successful being represented by a union," a STARR typical said.

"A boycott of immoderate benignant tin effect successful mislaid hours, wages, and tips that our hardworking employees trust upon. It is unfortunate that an enactment that claims to privation to correspond the employees of Le Diplomate would telephone for an enactment that would harm them." 

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders are reportedly joining a boycott of elite Washington, D.C., restaurants. (Getty Images)

The proprietor of the 2nd business, Knightsbridge Restaurant Group, took a changeable astatine the lawmakers much directly.

"How galore of these legislature members adjacent cognize themselves that they're signing?" helium told Axios.

STARR owns Osteria Mozza, The Occidental and Le Diplomate – the second of which has been a mainstay among the Washington, D.C., elite for years, including erstwhile Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Knightsbridge owns Rasika, Modena and Bombay Club.

Knightsbridge did not respond to a petition for remark by Fox News Digital.

Former President Joe Biden was known to sojourn Le Diplomate successful Washington, D.C. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Obama was spotted astatine Osteria Mozza with Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos earlier this year, CBS News reported.

The boycott is being tally by Local 25, a hospitality workers' union.

"Hundreds of workers astatine immoderate of D.C.’s astir salient and lucrative restaurants – including Le Diplomate and Rasika – person been organizing to articulation UNITE HERE Local 25. These workers person endured months of national busting from their employers – STARR Restaurants and Knightsbridge Restaurant Group," a flyer connected the boycott obtained by Axios read.

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Former President Barack Obama was precocious seen astatine different 1 of the Washington, D.C., restaurants. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

"D.C. Restaurant workers person been holding informational picket lines extracurricular STARR and Knightsbridge Restaurants, including STARR’s Osteria Mozza, The Occidental and Le Diplomate, and Knightsbridge’s Rasika, Modena and Bombay Club. Now, workers are calling for D.C. customers to boycott these restaurants, asking the nationalist not to eat, conscionable oregon portion astatine these locations."

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Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are reportedly among the signatories. 

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