Posted on 01/22/2015 10:06:25 AM PST by aimhigh
With all the protests by labor activists over the minimum wage and pay at retailers and restaurants this year, chances are you have become familiar with so-called worker centers. Unlike labor unions, these new models of labor activism don’t have regulations on length of picketing or filing spending reports. . .
Research by the Center for Union Facts (managed by my firm, Berman and Co.) shows just how deeply national labor unions like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) are involved in the worker center agitation.
Remember those fast-food strikes? The SEIU thought them up, paid for them, and hopes to gain from them. All told, SEIU’s Department of Labor filings show that the union spent over $15 million in 2013 on various worker center front groups, political consultants and worker organizing committees to run sporadic protests against chain restaurant operators.
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