Fast Food Franchise Owners Ask Congress For Help To Stop Worker Campaign For Fair Wages

by veya_victaous Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:22 am

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/09/16/3567898/fast-food-franchise-lobby-day/

Lots at source about how the US style 'Democracy' is nothing but a Scam systematically corrupted by Lobbyists

The top attorney for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined in July that McDonald’s exerts so much control over how franchisees operate that they are responsible for labor law violations committed by franchise owners. That finding has yet to be tested in court, but if it holds up and is applied beyond the nation’s largest fast food chain, it would make it much harder for industries that rely on franchising to stymie workers’ attempts to exercise their labor rights.

IFA President Steve Caldeira said the board’s decision about McDonald’s franchisees “would essentially take away their autonomy to run their own business.” But franchisees enjoy little autonomy under the restrictive agreements they sign with the corporation now.

Nine in 10 fast food workers report wage theft. The industry pays corporate CEOs 1,200 times more than it pays the typical worker. McDonald’s made $5.6 billion in profit on $28.1 billion in total revenue last year.

by Original Quill Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:37 am

It is a very ordinary kind of finding, applied to an extraordinary kind of firm. I'm not convinced that it would extend beyond the facts and the particular company. I would have to see the kinds of criteria used to determine control.

In any event, fat chance getting Congress to do anything. The Republicans have dedicated themselves to shutting-down all government in the US, thanks to the McConnell-Boehner doctirne, and the Senate is not in step with anything the Republicans do.

The US government is closed for business.

by veya_victaous Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:47 am

the fast food workers should arm themselves and take over congress.

you were better off under king George and that was bad enough to warrant a revolution.
so the way the majority of US citizens are treated now buy congress and the gov't definitely warrants a revolution.

by Ben Reilly Wed Sep 17, 2014 7:04 am

We pride ourselves on our "peaceful transition of power," but here lately that just sounds more and more like "plenty of lube while you're getting ..." you know.

by Original Quill Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:32 pm

This was an important conversation during the late 60's, people's revolution. In fact, it goes back to Melville's novella, Billy Budd. Does modern democracy truly give us self-determination, or does it only give one the right to be listened to, after which every goes back to what they were doing and nothing changes.

Later in the 20th-century, Herbert Marcuse took up the same theme, which he framed in Tocqueville's Tyranny of the Majority.

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