Posted on 04/24/2018 11:37:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
Workers at a Burgerville restaurant in Portland, Ore., have voted to create the first formally recognized fast food union in the country.
Willamette Week reported Monday that staff at one of the chain’s locations voted 18-4 to unionize, more than two years after workers began the push to be formally recognized as a union.
Burgerville announced earlier this month that it would allow the staff to vote to unionize in a National Labor Relations Board-run election.
"We started the BVWU to try to make things better for ourselves and our coworkers," Burgerville employee Mark Medina told Willamette Week. "The union is about workers standing up for each other and building a better world."
The union is now planning to negotiate a raise of $5 an hour for hourly staffers, on top of affordable health care, child care and consistent hours.
The group had called on customers to boycott the Burgerville location since February, and its spokesperson said the boycott "will remain in effect until the union and the company negotiate a fair contract."
Beth Brewer, Burgerville's senior vice president of operations, said in a statement to Williamette Week that the company is "ready to support the nation's first unionized fast-food store."
"Our employees have spoken, we hear them, and we support their decision. We will navigate this new working relationship together in a positive, productive way and bargain in good faith with the union at Burgerville Store #41,” Brewer said.
A second Burgerville location in Portland has also filed to hold an election to unionize, but the company has not yet responded to the request.
It’s delicious with that white snow powdered sugar on top.
Pfffffffft... I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if it somehow became tax payer subsidized. Especially in Oregon.
I will guess that their non-union stores will carry the loss.
Willamette Week reported Monday that staff at one of the chain’s locations voted 18-4 to unionize, more than two years after workers began the push to be formally recognized as a union.
I would say the paperwork will overwhelm them....................
Let’s see how they last.
When members of the Burgerville Workers Union showed up to the fast food chain’s corporate headquarters in Vancouver last week,
(Who paid for the trip?)
While a number of individual Burgerville locations across Portland have unionized, only one—the Powell location—is rallying for formal recognition from the chain’s executives.
(Ok, only one carrying beyond a local club house
The dues and overhead will kill it. Sound like a good idea but they will also have to agree to get to work on time.
Just a question but a union might not be all bad if you were the employer?)
In the meantime, the BVWU has collected support from major local unions, including the Amalgamated Transit Union 757, Portland Association of Teachers, the Communications Workers of America, and SEIU Local 49.
(Publicity from the communists.)
The union is now planning to negotiate a raise of $5 an hour for hourly staffers, on top of affordable health care, child care and consistent hours.
1) you will have to be at work on on time at schedule days. if not, this is the penalty.
2) you will have to produce this quantity of burgers to this quality standard.
3) The bathroom will have to be cleaned 4 times every hour.
Union : here’s you bill
Unionettes: I thought we were gong to get all that stuff for nothing. I don’t like this negotiation stuff.
The burgers will soon be so expensive, the chain will have to declare bankruptcy to get rid of them.....................
The $5 an hour will be their union dues.
IOW, they get nothing................
The burgers will soon be so expensive, the chain will have to declare bankruptcy to get rid of them.....................
IWWDTWD
(I wonder what Donald Trump would Do)
It would be good to know if these are franchises or are corporately owned stores............anybody know?............
I give them till Christmas.
Employees at each business had to organize independently.
Negotiations are a two way street, not one way as these snowflakes think.
Don’t you think the union deserves that $5? They union got it for them.
Union meeting #2: Where did our $5 go?
Automatic Burger Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZHNxkBCxHs
Meet Flippy, the robot hamburger flipper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW1mQtJaypU
$5 X 2080 (hrs per year 8 hr days)= $10,400
$10,400 X 10 employees = $104,000
I don’t know of any restaurant that can take a $104k hit to its bottom line...............
“Idiocracy” USED to be fiction. Now it’s a documentary...
This is good news to the people who build machines and robots to replace fast food workers.
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