Big Labor Declares A War on Tipping

Daily Caller ^ | 06/27/2014 | Ryan Williams

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Workers like tips. For millions of restaurant servers and bartenders, tips are cash-in-hand that can be spent that day for groceries, bills or entertainment. The money isn’t bad either...

Despite these facts, union front groups known as worker centers are leading an aggressive campaign to eliminate tipping from American restaurants. One of the more prominent critics of tipping is labor activist Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). Jayaraman has attempted to label tipping as sexist, racist and other hot-button terms meant to stir emotion and shame consumers.

But the provocative terms used by Jayaraman and other activists conceal the true reason behind organized labor’s war on tips. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and other unions want to organize the restaurant workers, as evidenced by the endless series of strikes staged against well-known brands demanding “$15 and a union.” Even if they were successful in organizing restaurant workers, however, unions have the sticky problem of collecting dues from tipped workers

From Washington, D.C. to Seattle, various groups of servers are bartenders are speaking out against the effort to eliminate tips. Their grassroots effort to defend their wallets, however, faces the daunting Goliath of big labor – which has deep pockets and pours millions of dollars into lobbying and manufactured protests. Organized labor’s war on tips is certain to continue so long as unions, desperate for dues, ignore what workers actually want.

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Let me guess; Ms. Jayaraman couldn't operate a successful restaurant to save her life.

Right. But she's one hell of a community organizer.