Company wide layoffs announced at Alamo Drafthouse today; Raleigh included

Hi everyone. I woke up today to news that a few of my friends had been laid off from Alamo. A few hours later I got the call as well. This is a company wide decision; if you visit r/AlamoDrafthouse you'll find a stickied post about it.

I want to say this does NOT, as far as I or anyone else knows, have anything to do with the recent Sony acquisition. Our GM said it's just a slow time for the movie industry and Alamo doesn't have the hours to go around.

To say we as employees are upset is an understatement. This came out of nowhere. This leaves several employees, me included, now without income. Additionally we had an extremely difficult situation at work occur literally yesterday as well so for this news to come the day after that is extremely upsetting. EDIT: The difficult situation was the unexpected death of a coworker.

A lot of employees are planning to do a walkout in a few days. We don't have a date planned yet but we were hoping to get support from our Raleigh community on the walkout day. We are requesting that people boycott Alamo on the day we host the walkout. It will likely be on a busy day, Friday or Saturday. I'll update this post with more information including when we have a date planned for the walkout. Sorry we don't have a date planned yet. We're still trying to even figure out who all got laid off.

Thank you guys. If you go to Alamo sometime in the next week please be extra kind to your servers, we're going through a lot right now.

EDIT: provided more context on the "difficult situation"

Edit #2: this got a lot bigger than I was expecting. Appreciate those who sympathize with my fellow coworkers, genuinely thank you for those being kind in the comments. Tired of constantly hearing "a walkout is childish" shit. Alamo, like every other service industry job, is absolutely nothing without its hourly staff. We hold the power. Always have and always will. Those of us who got laid off got laid off with no severance package or anything like that. We lost our healthcare. It's more than justified- it's the right thing to do- to organize a walkout. Alamo corporate can deal with losing profits for a single day. Our customers - yall- can deal with it for a single day. This unexpected layoff was the final straw for several of us- we have been dealing with unbelievable shit for months now. Those who got laid off don't want to come back. We're done with Alamo. Most all remaining employees (I know every person in kitchen is) are in agreement with the walkout and will be participating.

FYI, all employees at unionized Alamos were safe from the lay off. Food for thought!