For many unskilled and undocumented immigrants their only option for a job is to work in a restaurant. They work as hard or even harder than other workers and get half the pay with horrible conditions. This is because most of them do not know English. Many of these restaurant workers excel at what they do, but they get verbally abused by their bosses. In response to this Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health was created. Members of MassCOSH helped identify abusive workplaces to prevent fellow members from working there.
The author of this article on many occasions uses ethos, one example is when the author uses Jonny Arevalo is a believable person because he has "worked at several Boston restaurants, including Bennigan 's, for nine years" this means that Jonny is a credible person because he has worked in the business. Later Jonny says, "Then some other poor guy takes your place." meaning that when your boss then wants to get rid of you to pay someone else less money for the same job you are doing. Another example of ethos is when the author states that Lawmakers, "reject the demands of the National Restaurant Association, which is largely responsible for Massachusetts ' tripped minimum wage." This means that the author tries to make people believe that the lawmakers are trying to improve Massachusetts ' minimum wage. The lawmakers in this case are the authority appeal because they are the ones who are trying to improve the lives of the people of Massachusetts. The author also included another credible person, a restaurant analyst, Victor Fernandez to prove his point that restaurant workers are less fortunate about their job security. Victor states “annual turnover is above 95 percent for hourly workers.” Meaning that a lot of the restaurant workers are in an unstable workforce. This unstableness prompts to changes in schedules which makes child care arrangement a nightmare. Filiberto Lopez was another credible interviewee, he moved to Boston from El Salvador, “in hopes of finding the American Dream, and ended up sleeping in the kitchen…” This quote from the article not only does It show ethos, it also shows pathos because it demonstrates that the poor immigrant on occasions had to sleep on cold the kitchen floor because he didn’t get enough money. At the beginning of the article, the author portrayed pathos when he said “Long deep scars… plunge their hands into boiling hot water…” This quote from the article appeals into making us care about the workers because when we go into these restaurants, its all nice and pretty out front but in the back that’s where the problems begin. We expect that the worker be treated fairly but they are the ones who ends up being being abused and neglected for little pay. Another statement that illustrates pathos is that fast-food chains “ explicitly advise them (the employees) to apply fro food stamps and other government aid to supplement their unlivable pay.” The are very cruel; they know that their employees aren’t getting enough funds, but they don’t do anything to help them out. They go the easy rout and tell the employees to go get help from the government. This shoes that the corporations just want their money …show more content…
The least that the restaurants should do is to improve the working conditions this the extra profit that they are getting.
According to the article, it states that “The 13 million-plus restaurant workers in the United States face a poverty rate that is nearly three times that of the rest of the country’s workforce…” Even though the business creates a lot of revenue; most of its worker face poverty. Since most of these workers have to support a family of multiple children, it is very hard to comply with children’s’ needs.
This article includes a great example of logos by including the research done by MIT, “the minimum income someone needs to live adequately given costs of living – at $12.65 for a single adult and $22.40 for a family of four.” After comparing this piece of data with previous data, it clearly proves that many restaurant workers face poverty due to the lack of payment. This is also true because many of these families have more than four
The author of this article on many occasions uses ethos, one example is when the author uses Jonny Arevalo is a believable person because he has "worked at several Boston restaurants, including Bennigan 's, for nine years" this means that Jonny is a credible person because he has worked in the business. Later Jonny says, "Then some other poor guy takes your place." meaning that when your boss then wants to get rid of you to pay someone else less money for the same job you are doing. Another example of ethos is when the author states that Lawmakers, "reject the demands of the National Restaurant Association, which is largely responsible for Massachusetts ' tripped minimum wage." This means that the author tries to make people believe that the lawmakers are trying to improve Massachusetts ' minimum wage. The lawmakers in this case are the authority appeal because they are the ones who are trying to improve the lives of the people of Massachusetts. The author also included another credible person, a restaurant analyst, Victor Fernandez to prove his point that restaurant workers are less fortunate about their job security. Victor states “annual turnover is above 95 percent for hourly workers.” Meaning that a lot of the restaurant workers are in an unstable workforce. This unstableness prompts to changes in schedules which makes child care arrangement a nightmare. Filiberto Lopez was another credible interviewee, he moved to Boston from El Salvador, “in hopes of finding the American Dream, and ended up sleeping in the kitchen…” This quote from the article not only does It show ethos, it also shows pathos because it demonstrates that the poor immigrant on occasions had to sleep on cold the kitchen floor because he didn’t get enough money. At the beginning of the article, the author portrayed pathos when he said “Long deep scars… plunge their hands into boiling hot water…” This quote from the article appeals into making us care about the workers because when we go into these restaurants, its all nice and pretty out front but in the back that’s where the problems begin. We expect that the worker be treated fairly but they are the ones who ends up being being abused and neglected for little pay. Another statement that illustrates pathos is that fast-food chains “ explicitly advise them (the employees) to apply fro food stamps and other government aid to supplement their unlivable pay.” The are very cruel; they know that their employees aren’t getting enough funds, but they don’t do anything to help them out. They go the easy rout and tell the employees to go get help from the government. This shoes that the corporations just want their money …show more content…
The least that the restaurants should do is to improve the working conditions this the extra profit that they are getting.
According to the article, it states that “The 13 million-plus restaurant workers in the United States face a poverty rate that is nearly three times that of the rest of the country’s workforce…” Even though the business creates a lot of revenue; most of its worker face poverty. Since most of these workers have to support a family of multiple children, it is very hard to comply with children’s’ needs.
This article includes a great example of logos by including the research done by MIT, “the minimum income someone needs to live adequately given costs of living – at $12.65 for a single adult and $22.40 for a family of four.” After comparing this piece of data with previous data, it clearly proves that many restaurant workers face poverty due to the lack of payment. This is also true because many of these families have more than four