Good news! The NLRB has ruled that McDonald’s employees work for McDonald’s, and not for independent small businesses. This will make it a lot easier to organize a union:
For decades the giant fast-food company McDonald’s has been using a gimmick, pretending that its local outlets are independent “small businesses” and that the larger McDonald’s company and brand has nothing to do with personnel and other policies of these outlets. This has allowed the company to remain above liability when the outlets steal the wages of employees, as well as making it much more difficult to form a union that negotiates with the larger chain.
The NLRB has now stated that McDonald’s has substantial power over the working conditions of the people working in these local outlets, and has a great deal of influence over the business operations of its franchisees. This leaves individual franchise operators without much leeway over working conditions. Therefore, the NLRB considers the larger McDonald’s to jointly be an employer of workers at these franchises for the purposes of NLRB rules.
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Oh, goodie! The election is less than a week away!
The Zionists have liquidated entire families in Gaza. 54 of them so far. Every man, woman & child; young and old. Why are the Jews in Israel demanding that their government commit such heinous war crimes? Didn’t the world outlaw racist, generational murder and collective punishment after WW2?
Yesterday the House, by a voice vote, passed a resolution condemning Hamas for using “human shields.” The resolution was sponsored by Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and co-sponsored by Democrat Ted Deutch. In essence the resolution said that it wasn’t the Zionist-American bombs and bullets that killed and wounded those 9000 Palestinians in Gaza. No, Hamas forced them at gunpoint to “stand their ground” and die. Just so Hamas could increase the body count. Really? Perhaps if we rid our Congress of the Zionists (neo-cons) come November, we can all get some peace and tranquility in January?