Let me guess; Ms. Jayaraman couldn't operate a successful restaurant to save her life.
I'm right, aren't I?
Back in the day, I made a lot more than double the minimum wage working for tips.
Especially if I had to shell out dues to some damn union, so they could have sent all my money to the Dukakis for President Campaign.
Oh, BTW... I’m old...
Tips reward hard work and merit.
Unions don’t like either.
One, I was a cook in my youth, and appreciate the hard work that waitresses do.
Two, I am happy to reward good service with a healthy tip.
Three, as I am a middle-aged white man generally dining at lunch alone, most waitresses size me up as a good tipping prospect, and I get good service.
Works for me.
This is about the federalization of all work.
The Europeam model. So everyone will be the same. So tips won’t have to be paid which are usually in cash. So cash can be eliminated and the world will be cashless and every transaction can be monitored.
So the NWO can be established.
Ping.
I am sure the union’s motives are not in anyone’s best interests than their own, but I’ve never understood why restaurants are treated differently when it comes to wage laws from other businesses.
Someone wrote a memoir of his college days & his dyed-in-the-wool Marxist roommate. They had lunch at a small restaurant & the leftie left a tip of around 45 cents. The author said,
“You do know that Trotsky never tipped.”
“He didn’t,” the roommate replied, and retrieved his coins.
IIRC, communists despise tipping as it undermines the principle of `to each according to his need’, which only the almighty State is empowered to determine.
Cutting to the chase it simply means the union wants its cut of the money.
Uh, who goes out to restaurants anymore?
I only go if I’m dragged.
Have my food prepared by a bunch of tubercular third-worlders?
Nah.
I guess they can’t get union dues off of the tip income, eh?