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Cognitive dissonance alert: A group of local restaurant and nightclub owners, including David Meinert (5 Point Cafe, Big Mario's Pizza), Mike McConnel oahu hawaii vacation rentals (Caffe Vita, Via Tribunali), and Marcus Charles (the Crocodile, the Juju, Moe Bar) announced today that they'll be offering a 15 percent discount to all union members throughout the month of May.
What Meinert didn't mention was that none of the restaurants and nightclubs on the list are unionized (a fact he confirmed in an email). Non-union restaurant workers, in other words, will be providing discounted food and services to unionized workers who make more and have better benefits than they do.
"Unions have been at the forefront of creating healthy workplaces oahu hawaii vacation rentals and rights for workers that most businesses now take as normal," Meinert wrote. "Many small businesses follow the examples oahu hawaii vacation rentals of Unions in offering like benefits, and most progressives, whether or not they or their employees are Union members, work on the same side of most issues. As a business owner and a citizen, I want to find ways to work with Unions and their membership, as I think we have similar world views."
isn't it illegal for government oahu hawaii vacation rentals employees to accept discounts for being government employees. By virtue oahu hawaii vacation rentals of the fact that the vast majority of union members are government workers, wouldn't they be precluded from participating in accepting the 15% discounts? Somethign for the ethics oahu hawaii vacation rentals committee and Hatch Act to address . . .
On the actual topic, are there such things as Unionized Restaurants? I could maybe see that for back of house (although both places I waited at throughout college used mostly work release oahu hawaii vacation rentals guys in the back) but how the hell could you have a unionized front of house?!?!
Anc has a good point: I worked in several restaurants in the past, and none was unionized. Frankly, I'm not sure that I would have wanted to be unionized. Although I'm a proud union member oahu hawaii vacation rentals now, when I wa working in restaurants, it was always a short-term gig, or a second job. Being unionized might have been more trouble than it would have been worth to me.
How many actual union workers live inside Seattle proper anyway? most of them .. the true middle class ones he claims to want to help most likely live in the peripheries oahu hawaii vacation rentals suburbs and go eat at places like the Black bear Dinner in Federal way, they probably oahu hawaii vacation rentals don't go to trendy oahu hawaii vacation rentals places areas in seattle all that often so its a very shallow way to show his support
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I'd also guess that there was something about the conditions, oahu hawaii vacation rentals pay, etc, that made grocery store workers want to mobilize. For front-of-house restaurant workers, the pay is usually pretty good and the conditions aren't terrible (exhausting, but manageable). Not the same for back-of-house, though.
There is no prohibition against military discounts for military members and even their Dependents. And I'm not just talking about Mom and Pop kind of stuff, but almost oahu hawaii vacation rentals all Car Manufactures oahu hawaii vacation rentals give you a discount as well as other major chains like Lowe's and Home Depot (10% off all purchases).
I had the idea to do this while watching the ordeal in Wisconsin. Watching workers be vilified by the right was disgusting to me. I have many regular customers oahu hawaii vacation rentals who are Union members, and tons of friends who are teachers, cops and health care workers. This is just a thank you for them, and a show of solidarity. Amazing our society is so cynical that someone oahu hawaii vacation rentals can't just say thank you and express solidarity without being criticized.
Seattle is full of great small business owners, especially in the restaurant business. These folks treat their employees very well, and as they become more financially successful most are looking at ways to give even more to their employees. People who try to vilify small business owners and create oahu hawaii vacation rentals a fake divide between them and their employees are doing everyone a disservice. We need to recognize the quality, progressive oahu hawaii vacation rentals small businesses in Seattle and support them, and encourage them to do the right things in running their businesses.
That seems like a logical reason but does any one know the status of some larger chains restaurants ? But if some Wiley unionizer oahu hawaii vacation rentals was smart he would get a bunch of the smaller eateries like the 5-point and others that might be neighboring it to come together.
All that being said Meinhearts position comes off as phony, for example all working class folks need help not just union folk, and why just for a month? are their lives going to be magically oahu hawaii vacation rentals better in June?
Dicks Drive In, a equally small business but cultural institution for Seattle is very civicly engaged and takes great care of their employees (probably better then the owners oahu hawaii vacation rentals of theses restruants) with out discriminating against who is in a union and who isn't.
Only problem I ever had working Front of House was that we'd have about an hour each of opening and closing sidework we had to do. No customers, place closed, but we still only got paid server's wages ($2.15 an hour). Kinda shitty, especially as we had to do most of the Back of House's shit as they got paid minimum wage ($6.15 an hour I think back in the early 2000s).
oahu hawaii vacation rentals But hey, where else can a 20 year old consistently make 100 to 125 bucks cash money for 6 or 7 hours work? Oh man, those were some summers, living at the beach (Orange Beach Alabama) with my friends, working at the Back Porch... why did I ever graduate college?!?! Worse decision I ever made in my life.
The right thing when running a business that serves food to people would include making sure the cooks and servers have paid sick days, so they don't end up with the choice of either working while sick (and spreading their germs) or losing a day's wages.
What is paid sick leave for a server? Keep in mind the VAST majority of their money comes from tips. Most months I got a $0.00 'This is not a Check' paycheck, as the taxes I owed on the tips I claimed oahu hawaii vacation rentals were more than the $2.15 an hour I got in wages.
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It's hard to unionize a small business, and not always the best move. I wouldn't ding Meinert for running non-union shops except to the degree that you could demonstrate that he has engaged in active union-busting. However I would ding him for campaigning against oahu hawaii vacation rentals I-1098, and for the incredible selfishness and disregard he showed toward the state's budget problems last year, which of course has only fueled the war on labor unions this year.
Shirin Ebadi should write a book detailing how so-called human rights in the USA have led to young women divorcing 6 times; having 7 abortions; doing cocaine after work; cheating on their husbands; abusing their children; working as prostitutes on the weekend; and all of the other lovely consequences of the so-called human rights she preaches. Clearly, the Western notion of human rights is flawed and brings about entirely negative societal consequences. I'm not suggesting that some reform in Iran is not needed - but to emulate the U.S. is simply to drink the same poison America oahu hawaii vacation rentals is facing. Ebadi's speeches and grievances are naive - she does not address the real issues and dangers.
It tends to make little oahu hawaii vacation rentals sense for smaller independent businesses to unionize as the power of collective bargaining is diminished to near nil by the miniscule size of the workforce as well as the depth of the pockets of (often struggling) small business owners. This article seems to attempt to create the impression that the businesses offering these discounts are somehow preventing or locking out unions in their own businesses.
It is easier to talk about religion these days than it is to speak about unions. I am sick of all the knee jerk dogma on both sides. The unionized Seattle fire fighter who earns gt;$100k/yr needs their little discount. And the unionized hotel maid who cleans up this city's little rendezvous probably wouldn't waist their money at one of these eateries. Some unions are too strong and kill the host, and some too weak and only enrich the union execs. We have to stop pretending oahu hawaii vacation rentals we can refer to just "unions" and still have an intelligent conversation.
This is one of the top and most repeated anti-union lines found in every labor relations union avoidance manual for employers used in union busting campaigns.That oahu hawaii vacation rentals you have internalized this BS so much makes you a hypocrite. You are trying oahu hawaii vacation rentals to suck ass to people with disposable income (presumably) to get business for you establishement, while promoting the line that your own employees do not need any democracy in their own workplace--that is their call, not yours. This is the epitomy of the phony progressivism I see from people like you and on Publicola. I have avoided the Five Point because I already am aware of your politcs here. There are two other places on the list above that I will no longer patronize. In short, unions are only useful if it supports your little business, hustle, or single issue, but otherwise, forget it. If an employer wants to discourage unionization, fine, but when they try and lie about it under some phoney progressivism...go figure.
Until these employers listed above voluntarily agree to voluntary recognition of a union after a card check (what is called a labor peace agreement) I will have no plans to spend a thin dime in any of them. And I know many people who won't either, once I print ou