In 1935 President Roosevelt depicted the Wagner Act also known as the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA), establishing the legal right of most workers to organize or join labour unions and to negotiate with their employers, an act which changed the nation 's labor system. On November 2012 the first public act was a one-day strike. The workers demands were; an industry wide raise to fifteen dollars an hour and the right to form a union without retribution. The fast food campaign was funded by The Service Employees International Union (SEIU). In 1968 the minimum wage was $10.95 and in 2014 President Obama pledge to raise minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 although many have no hope that Congress will not pass this legislation, workers
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Subsequently the cons of workers unionizing are much higher, a lot of employees main reason on why they choose not to join the union is because the fee the members have to pay is quite expensive, a lot of the times it can be either the employees or employers do not want to pay or they just cannot adjust the budget to pay. According to a study by researchers at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Illinois at the Urbana Champaign "...fifty two percent of fast food workers are on some form of public assistance."(Finnegan 4). This not only shows that some workers cannot afford to join the union but that some workers do not earn enough to successfully sustain themselves. Nowadays fast food labor jobs do not require much skills, training nor education, "...we might do better by focusing on education to equip them with the skills to perform more productive, better paid jobs." says labor economics Orley Ashenfelter (Porter 2). One of the biggest problems that fast food workers do not seem to take into consideration is that if the minimum wage raises that the menu price will rise also and then it becomes another case of inflation. Another con about unionizing is that sometimes the workers are put under so much pressure and menacing situation that their supervisors may take advantage of them and make them do work alterations or over work them. For example some employees …show more content…
I don 't think that unionization is such a great idea because in many cases unions are only trying to get more members to pay their every expensive fees and do not pay attention to the hardships the fast food workers are being put through, or the conditions they are working in. Also sometimes unionization can make the environment at the workplace a little hostile because some people do not agree with others choices and someone can go off on another worker and then unions do not want to deal with such dilemmas. Besides some people become unproductive when they know that there is someone that will bail them out of certain situations, for example some workers can begin to slack off and then begin to say that they are going to repot the restaurant for not giving them a break and they can threaten to start a strike if they are not taken serious, when in reality the person is not doing their
Subsequently the cons of workers unionizing are much higher, a lot of employees main reason on why they choose not to join the union is because the fee the members have to pay is quite expensive, a lot of the times it can be either the employees or employers do not want to pay or they just cannot adjust the budget to pay. According to a study by researchers at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Illinois at the Urbana Champaign "...fifty two percent of fast food workers are on some form of public assistance."(Finnegan 4). This not only shows that some workers cannot afford to join the union but that some workers do not earn enough to successfully sustain themselves. Nowadays fast food labor jobs do not require much skills, training nor education, "...we might do better by focusing on education to equip them with the skills to perform more productive, better paid jobs." says labor economics Orley Ashenfelter (Porter 2). One of the biggest problems that fast food workers do not seem to take into consideration is that if the minimum wage raises that the menu price will rise also and then it becomes another case of inflation. Another con about unionizing is that sometimes the workers are put under so much pressure and menacing situation that their supervisors may take advantage of them and make them do work alterations or over work them. For example some employees …show more content…
I don 't think that unionization is such a great idea because in many cases unions are only trying to get more members to pay their every expensive fees and do not pay attention to the hardships the fast food workers are being put through, or the conditions they are working in. Also sometimes unionization can make the environment at the workplace a little hostile because some people do not agree with others choices and someone can go off on another worker and then unions do not want to deal with such dilemmas. Besides some people become unproductive when they know that there is someone that will bail them out of certain situations, for example some workers can begin to slack off and then begin to say that they are going to repot the restaurant for not giving them a break and they can threaten to start a strike if they are not taken serious, when in reality the person is not doing their