© Burgerville Workers Union/Facebook
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Soon to be FORMER employees......................
© Burgerville Workers Union/Facebook
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Soon to be FORMER employees......................
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.
Automatic Burger Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZHNxkBCxHs
Meet Flippy, the robot hamburger flipper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW1mQtJaypU
This is good news to the people who build machines and robots to replace fast food workers.
Is Burgerville publicly traded? Sounds like it might be a good candidate for shorting.
Soon to be replaced by KIOS machines.
My 30-year-old married daughter moved to Portland from Arizona last summer because she fell in love with the place when visiting friends who’d moved there. She’s got extensive experience as a waitress but couldn’t get a server job because they tend to promote from within after making you start at the bottom! After less than a year there, she’s planning on leaving ASAP because she’s sick of the expense, the traffic, and especially the self-absorbed whining Portlandians, lol. She’s been working as a medical courier for the last few months, driving to places like McMinnville, and she really loves it, mainly because of the scenic countryside and the solitude!
That sound you hear is the sound of robots and other automation replacing Portland restaurant workers.
Tell that to the 5 or 6 workers who get canned due to increased labor costs. Either that, or the prices go up a couple bucks per burger, they lose customers to the cheaper competition, and all 20+ workers are spending their days at the Union Hall or hiring out as "Rent-a-Mob" workers up and down the Left Coast!
“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.
That’s exactly what the management had to say. They are required to bargain “in good faith” which is the exact clause used in the law. To do otherwise would be in violation of Taft-Hartley (1935?). I wouldn’t assign obsequiousness to the company just yet. They have to deal with the NLRB and their lawyers probably wrote that message.