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发帖数: 3978 | 1 工运口号是15刀一小时，成立全国翻肉饼工会。
Fast-Food Workers of the World, Unite!
The campaign by fast-food workers to raise the industry’s minimum wage to $
15 an hour and unionize has gathered momentum so quickly it has surprised
even some of the organizers at the Service Employees International Union,
which is underwriting it. A year ago, a group of workers protested at dozens
of restaurants in New York. On Dec. 5, workers were expected to rally in
about 100 cities.
The prospects for unionizing an industry with about 200,000 restaurants,
most owned by franchisees, and workers who don’t stay in their jobs for
long remain daunting. “Attention is oxygen for these groups, and they’ve
been very good at getting attention. But that’s very different from getting
collective bargaining rights,” says Ruth Milkman, a labor expert at the
City University of New York who supports the drive. The SEIU says workers
aren’t organizing the traditional way—restaurant by restaurant, vote by
vote—and they don’t yet know what their union would look like. “It’s not
predetermined what form this will take,” says Mary Kay Henry, SEIU’s
president. “We would be creating something new.” |
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