https://www.dailydot.com/irl/17-wendys-workers-quit-tiktok/
This is a workload that's on par with what Japanese salaried workers do but with scraps wages in comparison and all the burnout.
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A dozen people quit on the same day and they don't even try to unionize?
The Wendy's corp likely would have just ripped up the contract for the franchise rather than let a location be unionized
I agree that's probably what would happen. Seems like that stuff requires whole-sector unions or whatever.
Unionizing in the USA in almost all circumstances requires the workers in question to stay at the workplace for months, sometimes longer than a year because of how long the process takes with the NLRB. I know this from direct experience because the workers I was trying to organize all quit, then I was back to step 1.
Is it really a "union" if there's just one person left working there?
They could try improving conditions so they don't have to leave. Of course there aren't any individual fast food unions that I know of. It would probably be hard.
It's a Wendy's. They will close down and leave before they let one unionize. Mass exodus is the best move.
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Like this is how the system was intended to work though. We’ve made workers get underpaid along with giving them shit hours so that they would quit before they can even ask for a raise. Much less ask for “benefits.” This is the system that the petit bourgeois wanted and they now they can’t control it. So instead of fixing it they rather cry about it and try to make sure we keep getting screwed.
