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Month: July 2023
BREAKING: 100s of LA fast food workers are ON STRIKE!Last year we won historic statewide legis to address the multiple crises in the fast food industry, but with the Fast Food Council on hold, we need solutions NOW!We demand the ability not to just exist in LA, but to thrive! pic.twitter.com/yTNSMPfaIf— Fight for $15 LA (@Fightfor15LA) July 13, 2023
My partner’s store was the first in the country to unionize. 13 stores have followed suit. 4 out of the 6 Minnesota store are striking today and tomorrow. If you’d like to help their efforts, here are some ideas: “We are on an UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE STRIKE! UPDATED CALL TO ACTION: management couldn't keep our stores open by themselves, even though that was their excuse for not coming to bargaining. call / text regional manager Bill Holland and tell him to return to the bargaining table and negotiate a fair contact with us! ️ 651-274-1706 ️ Half Price Books has repeatedly failed to approach negotiations with the respect and seriousness we deserve, and refused to show up to bargaining today. We're calling on customers to not shop at our four union stores today, and instead help amplify our voices by calling all our union locations and expressing your disappointment: tell…
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can’t help but feel pessimistic.
i’m 26 and i have worked several food service jobs and done 4+ years of managerial work as well. quit my job a few months ago because they dissolved my department, so my only option was to go back to being a line employee which paid me $7 less than what i was making before. i recently just landed another part time job as a line employee and i’m ubering in my free time but it’s hardly any money at all. i can’t help but feel pessimistic about the future because although i have solid manager experience for someone my age, no place wants to hire me. seems like everywhere i go is looking for reasons not to bring me on. i don’t have a feeling of self importance or entitlement, but i just don’t understand how i’m supposed to survive. minimum wage doesn’t even come close to covering the…
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Treatment at work makes me feel inhuman
My workspace is a storage closet. It's freezing cold – 90°F outside right now and I have the space heater going. There are no windows. I have a “specialist” role so I'm extra isolated from my coworkers. There's mouse shit on the floor and raining from the ceiling tiles, people take breaks in here and leave crumbs all over my keyboard, and I am just so fucking depressed I can't stand it. Not to mention I asked for a raise since I have this special role and they said the best they can do is an extra $1/hr. It's a massive corporation raking in billions yearly. We're so understaffed that they put me on the front desk at least once a week – this week I've been on the front 3 times. I feel like I'm not even a person anymore. I'm so miserable here. I'm really good at my…
I feel like if the system worked properly people who do this would be promoted and that’s how it should be. But that’s literally never what happens and I feel like too many people are too naive to realize this until it’s too late. You’re doing 2x the daily production number? Great! You’ll get more work with no raise and now our boss expects me and everyone else to do more as well because you raised the standard even if we don’t slack off and already meet productivity standards. It’s these two people on our team but the worst is Dave (name changed) Dave always did 2x sometimes even 3x the work. Was worried about this and predictably a couple of weeks pass and management sees how high Dave’s numbers are and decides to raise the number by 60%! Now surely enough Dave is doing almost 3x THIS number now…
