Sunday, September 21, 2014

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

[They want to use our own government against us. - Bozo]
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by Alan Pyke
September 16, 2014 at 9:33 am
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The fast food industry is hoping that a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill can blunt the momentum that fast food workers have gained through nearly two years of strikes and multiple lawsuits.
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The International Franchise Association (IFA) is flying fast food store owners and other franchisees into Washington on Tuesday to drum up congressional opposition to a recent legal decision that could make corporations liable for how franchise employees are treated. The trade group expects more than 350 business owners from both the franchisee and franchisor sides of the business model to show up at its event this week, according to The Hill. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and former Republican Governors Association head and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour are scheduled to speak to the group, and the paper reports that top Senate Republicans will introduce legislation targeting federal labor regulators in general later this week.
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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.
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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.
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