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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/workreform@lemmy.world

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The ballot effort to increase the minimum wage for tipped workers faces a new challenge as opponents seek to disqualify signatures collected by organizers.

The Massachusetts Restaurant Association filed an objection to several signatures and petition sheets submitted to the secretary of state by the ballot campaign group, One Fair Wage. The signatures were the final hurdle for ballot organizers to get the issue in front of voters in November.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Restaurant owners will increase prices with inflation because it means more profits. Restaurant owners are also notorious for stealing tips and wage theft.

And restaurants that ended tipping (some have) have happier wait staff and management.

Do you own a restaurant?

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a source on that statement?

I do not own a restaurant but am a worker, bartender specifically.

Every restaurant that i know of or have worked in that switches to a non-tipped wage leads to suppressed/lower wages, and that's from someone who has intimate access to the books.

Pay is definitely more consistent but not as high on average by design.

[–] rekorse@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well you can do a shitty version of anything. There are gains to be had switching to a non-tipped pay structure, but its up to the owner to distribute it fairly. Sounds like in your examples the owner collected the extra money themselves.

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Its nuts to me how many people in this thread support and trust the ownership class.

Do you trust the ownership class?