Posted on 03/30/2015 11:15:44 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama's National Labor Relations Board will consider a case this week with important implications for the future of the franchise industry.
Last year, NLRB's lead attorney found that McDonald's corporation should be treated as a "joint employer," meaning that it be responsible for the business and labor practices at each and every one of its franchise operations. This week, an administrative law judge will determine the viability of that finding. If he confirms it, McDonald's could face numerous suits and actions from the NLRB....
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It’s difficult to shake down individual small businesses; it’s much easier to shake down major corporations, and most franchise-based corporations would become (even more) major corporations if Hdqtrs. had to own all the franchises.
The big-government/big-union/big-corporate crony-fascist complex doesn’t like small businesses, because it gives people the illusion that they can make it without them.
Bingo.
The prospects of their profitability will be drastically reduced because they will suddenly have to comply with all sorts of labor regulations that they previously did not.
The desirability of owning and managing a fast food franchise will be that of shacking up with your ex-wife.
Centralize them under one corporate umbrella and they become much easier to unionize.
The point is to remove capital so as to prevent capitalism. The government is to become the source of all money.
There used to be a cartoon at OldBroad that has 0bama with an IRS form. He says, “Send it all.”
The Left wants ALL of everything, right down to hat pins. You will have to bow and scrape for a boon on a hat pin.
Why don’t we simply get rid of the NLRB?
Thank John McCain
Couldn’t have said it better myself. The NLRB sure cares about contracts when it comes to unions, but as for the franchise contracts, not so much.
I wish we could. Employment should be a private agreement between the employer and the employee.
We can get rid of it. Just need to get the correct people in place.
Don’t they still have the people whose appointments were ruled illegal by SCOTUS? How can they rule on anything?
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