Because I said so.....
“Obama’s NLRB appears to be trying to put an end to the franchise model.”
It would be another way of suppressing small business and the American entrepreneurial spirit.
It is interesting McDonalds is a Chicago based corporation. It has been under attack by the Obama’s from the beginning of the administration beginning with Michelle making the company the poster child for child obesity. Perhaps McDonald’s didn’t contribute to the proper causes and candidates.
The renewed push seems to coincide with McDonalds firing its first black CEO, after a string of sales and earnings misses. The poor performance may not have been entirely his fault, the fast food industry has been under assault by the left throughout the Obama administration so the administrations’s war against fast food may have inadvertently taken the CEO as a casualty.
Ironically the wealthiest person in my neighborhood is black and owns several McDonalds franchises. He started as an hourly minimum wage worker in the store, worked his way up in the organization, bought his first franchise, and is living the American dream. This is the kind of story our President should be celebrating.
Often, it is simply a matter of tying the wrongdoing to an entity that has more money so the richer company (or person) can be milked. If the legal definition of a franchise is hacked up, so be it. Bottom line is ‘win the case.’
If so, then is this an attempt to redefine franchises so that all of the employees of all of the individual franchises are considered as a group so that franchises now come under the Obamacare mandate?
The franchise model is a very positive one. It makes for more local ownership and allows folks who wouldn’t, other than for having the money to invest, be equipped to own their own business on such a level.
A classic case of unintended consequences if liberals were to be successful in diminishing their prevalence.
That's what they are really after right there, setting a precedent, so they can open the door to the unions in every franchise. Between right-to-work laws and the unions killing off non-service industries, this is the only gambit unions have left to save themselves, going after minimum wage workers they couldn't be bothered with before.
The relationship between a franchiser and franchisee is more like vendor and customer.
The franchisee pays a fee to the franchiser, based on gross sales. In return, the franchisee gets marketing, brand recognition, etc. McDonald's also provides supplies, but the franchisee pays them for it.
This is nothing but grasping at straws. The NRLB knows they have no precedent, but are hoping to find a friendly judge that is willing to twist the law to suit them.
Or, they are hoping that McDonalds will settle -- thus providing the precedent they need.
They’re going to lose big time. We’re watching a series of tantrums coming from the Chosen Ones.