http://blog.ourfuture.org/20121129/nyc-fast-food-workers-fed-up-strike-to-change-economy?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nyc-fast-food-workers-fed-up-strike-to-change-economy Daily news and strategy from a progressive point of view. Wed, 22 May 2013 17:21:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-alpha http://blog.ourfuture.org/20121129/nyc-fast-food-workers-fed-up-strike-to-change-economy#comment-6939 Tim Morgan Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:18:40 +0000 http://blog.ourfuture.org/?p=78041#comment-6939 The sad fact is that there is essentially no protection against retaliation for collective action such as forming or joining a union. That’s why we need “card check.” In the meantime, an outside union rep should call any owner or manager on retaliation and insist that it it’s not remedied the business will be brought down — whether by pickets & boycotts, bad publicity, or simply tossing the sabot into the gears.

]]> http://blog.ourfuture.org/20121129/nyc-fast-food-workers-fed-up-strike-to-change-economy#comment-6929 Former Domino's Deliverer Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:28:37 +0000 http://blog.ourfuture.org/?p=78041#comment-6929 It isn’t just the “burger flippers” who suffer. “Managers” are compensated as “exempt personnel”, unable to collect overtime pay and often being required to work so many hours that their effective hourly wage is less than the minimum.

]]> http://blog.ourfuture.org/20121129/nyc-fast-food-workers-fed-up-strike-to-change-economy#comment-6926 Former Domino's Deliverer Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:23:42 +0000 http://blog.ourfuture.org/?p=78041#comment-6926 Please confirm based on many years of my experience, the blackmailing scheme of Domino’s Pizza franchisees who consider their delivery personnel as “wait staff”, bulking up the “total compensation” by including an estimate of tips received, thus compensating them as the restaurant industry has for years been legally entitled to pay sub-standard wages to restaurant wait staff.

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