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Only in Portlandia.
An article from the Willamette Week: Workers at Portland’s Busiest Burgerville Say Managers Are Trying to Bust Their Union
The story starts with a sob story about a woman 8 month pregnant being suspended without pay.
Duh... Fast food isn't a career job, and isn't a safety and risk for someone 8 months pregnant to work. They formed a union and no contractual agreements are made yet.
If I am to believe the story, which is firmly one-sided, I still cannot sympathize with people who think they will get more pay and benefit from one of many fast food chains, and not make it go bankrupt, when their competition doesn't do the same. The article talks about retaliation, of which I bet is just getting rid of bad employees anyway. Really hard to say. However, it's a franchise. How many unique contracts would there be?
Now my personal view, is that a major competitor like Burger King or McDonald's got this going, just to get rid of what is probably the best fast food chain in the Northwest. Burgerville already costs more than most fast food. They use high quality Northwest sourced food. The location nearest me is the worse Burgerville I ever ate at, but it's still better than the competition. Except maybe Carl's Jr.
How many people think fast food should be unionized? Here in Portlandia, a few Burgerville locations are the first in the nation to unionize.
An article from the Willamette Week: Workers at Portland’s Busiest Burgerville Say Managers Are Trying to Bust Their Union
The story starts with a sob story about a woman 8 month pregnant being suspended without pay.
Duh... Fast food isn't a career job, and isn't a safety and risk for someone 8 months pregnant to work. They formed a union and no contractual agreements are made yet.
If I am to believe the story, which is firmly one-sided, I still cannot sympathize with people who think they will get more pay and benefit from one of many fast food chains, and not make it go bankrupt, when their competition doesn't do the same. The article talks about retaliation, of which I bet is just getting rid of bad employees anyway. Really hard to say. However, it's a franchise. How many unique contracts would there be?
Now my personal view, is that a major competitor like Burger King or McDonald's got this going, just to get rid of what is probably the best fast food chain in the Northwest. Burgerville already costs more than most fast food. They use high quality Northwest sourced food. The location nearest me is the worse Burgerville I ever ate at, but it's still better than the competition. Except maybe Carl's Jr.
How many people think fast food should be unionized? Here in Portlandia, a few Burgerville locations are the first in the nation to unionize.