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Some news is an obligation to report, but sometimes it?s a real pleasure. The latter is the Service Employees International Union?s use of the McDonald?s defense to oppose unionizing its own workers.
The SEIU has hired workers across the country to protest outside businesses and restaurants, especially McDonald?s. Suffice to say they have no union and some don?t make $15 an hour, the union?s nationwide minimum-wage target. At a ?Fight for 15? conference in Richmond, Virginia this month, the protest organizers showed up to demand to unionize themselves. According to the website In These Times, a woman from Las Vegas who works as a union organizer tried to deliver a letter asking the SEIU to confirm it employs them and will allow them to unionize. She was blocked by security.
The SEIU responded that it ?supports the ability of all workers? to unionize, ?including organizers in the Fight for $15.? But the union also claims it doesn?t employ the workers because the organizers are directly employed by individual organizing committees in each city that has a Fight for $15 campaign.
That?s pretty rich considering that most of the money paying the organizers comes directly from the SEIU. It?s also hilarious since the SEIU claims that it should be able to organize all McDonald?s workers everywhere across the country as a single bargaining unit. But McDonald?s operates on a franchise model with individual store owners. Now the SEIU claims its organizers are essentially franchisees.
In 2014 National Labor Relations Board General (NLRB) Counsel Richard Griffin said companies could be held jointly liable for the business practices of its franchisees. In August 2015, the NLRB ruled that a business need only exercise ?indirect? control over workers to be on the hook in labor disputes.
The Union of Union Representatives, which is seeking to represent the organizers, says the SEIU needs to recognize its status as the employer of the organizers and it has filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the NLRB. We look forward to seeing how the SEIU?s new franchise model works out.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/big-labo...nse-1472856614
The SEIU has hired workers across the country to protest outside businesses and restaurants, especially McDonald?s. Suffice to say they have no union and some don?t make $15 an hour, the union?s nationwide minimum-wage target. At a ?Fight for 15? conference in Richmond, Virginia this month, the protest organizers showed up to demand to unionize themselves. According to the website In These Times, a woman from Las Vegas who works as a union organizer tried to deliver a letter asking the SEIU to confirm it employs them and will allow them to unionize. She was blocked by security.
The SEIU responded that it ?supports the ability of all workers? to unionize, ?including organizers in the Fight for $15.? But the union also claims it doesn?t employ the workers because the organizers are directly employed by individual organizing committees in each city that has a Fight for $15 campaign.
That?s pretty rich considering that most of the money paying the organizers comes directly from the SEIU. It?s also hilarious since the SEIU claims that it should be able to organize all McDonald?s workers everywhere across the country as a single bargaining unit. But McDonald?s operates on a franchise model with individual store owners. Now the SEIU claims its organizers are essentially franchisees.
In 2014 National Labor Relations Board General (NLRB) Counsel Richard Griffin said companies could be held jointly liable for the business practices of its franchisees. In August 2015, the NLRB ruled that a business need only exercise ?indirect? control over workers to be on the hook in labor disputes.
The Union of Union Representatives, which is seeking to represent the organizers, says the SEIU needs to recognize its status as the employer of the organizers and it has filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the NLRB. We look forward to seeing how the SEIU?s new franchise model works out.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/big-labo...nse-1472856614