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Soon to be FORMER employees......................
Ro, Ro, Ro your bot.
This should accelerate the roboticization of the fast food industry.
Fine by me.
They likely will be in bankruptcy within a year.
Yep
So, there has been a boycott of Burgerville, “in support of” the workers, and their attainment of $5/hour raises plus additional benefits.
Seems like people might get used to not going to Burgerville. When Burgerville is all up and running with the newly endowed employees with big raises and benefits, how much will the cost of food increase? $3 more for a burger? I expect they will be priced out of the local fast food business, but then, it is Portland, after all.
Heck, I’d boycott them now just BECAUSE they are union ...
Macheesmo Mouse is more my type of place when I’m in the Williamette.
Look at the idiot in back with the raised fist.
Well, they got a “living wage”. They not only screwed the young people trying to break into the job market behind them, they screwed themselves.
They won’t be living long on it. It would be interesting to do a five year follow-up on this chain and the people in this picture.
With the kind of training and experience you need for this job, I can see why they would demand high wages.
Not everyone can be Spongebob.
Great! We’ll just replace you with automated systems. No unions for them. Yet.
...as she furiously unloads her stock in the company...
What, no "work at home" days?
They’ll be out of business in a year.
“The union is about workers standing up for each other and building a better world.”
They can re-organize into a “Former fast food workers support group” after they are all replaced by automation.
Will someone please give me a genuine answer as to why people wish to unionize? What is the drawing power?
BVWU’s demands: affordable health insurance, a $5-per-hour-raise for each employee, a more reliable scheduling system, and the discontinuation of E-Verify, a program Burgerville uses during the hiring process that identifies and reports undocumented immigrants.
Burgerville responded in a carefully-worded press release. “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,” said Senior Vice President of Operations Beth Brewer. “We are proud of our relationship with our coworkers, and we will continue to provide a fair, positive work environment for all.”
But the chain still managed to add few jabs at its employees in the release, noting that they are already paid 20 percent more than the industry standard and are offered healthcare. What a positive way to kick-off their “new working relationship.”
They want customers to boycott their place of employment until higher wage and benefit demands are met. Stupidity.