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Closed Due to Low Wages
The Ongoing Exodus of Workers from the New York Restaurant Industry and the Looming Impact on Consumers The New York Restaurant Industry...
Comms
Dec 31, 20211 min read
New York Consumers Can Expect Significant Disruptions When Dining Out this Holiday Season
Workers Protest Low-Wages Threaten Holiday Walk-Outs; Ending Subminimum Wage Only Way To Save Holiday Dining and Entire Industry The...
Comms
Dec 7, 20211 min read
No Rights, Low Wages, No Service
How Increased Violations of Workers’ Rights in 2021, Coupled with High Harassment, and Low Wages and Tips, Have Pushed Workers to Leave...
Comms
Sep 29, 20211 min read
Research on the Tipped Minimum Wage
Findings from Survey Research of Restaurant Workers in the District of Columbia Lake Research Partners survey results of restaurant...
Comms
Sep 5, 20211 min read
Raising Wages to Reopen
Restaurants Nationwide Raising Wages to Save Their Businesses After Covid-19 The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive upheaval in the US...
Comms
Aug 30, 20211 min read
Restaurants Can Provide Livable Wages
A How-to-Guide for Restaurateurs to Transition Profitably to One Fair Wage The restaurant industry is in a moment of crisis. Since the...
Comms
Jul 30, 20211 min read
Help Wanted
The Impact (Or Lack Thereof) of Ending Unemployment Insurance on Restaurant Workers Willingness to Work for Subminimum Wages The...
Comms
Jun 29, 20211 min read
Illinois: It’s a Wage Shortage, Not a Worker Shortage
Why Illinois Restaurant Workers Are Leaving the Industry, And What Would Make Them Stay The COVID-19 outbreak has had devastating impacts...
Comms
May 5, 20211 min read
New York: It’s a Wage Shortage, Not a Worker Shortage
Why New York Restaurant Workers Are Leaving the Industry, And What Would Make Them Stay The COVID-19 outbreak has had devastating impacts...
Comms
May 5, 20211 min read
Michigan: It’s a Wage Shortage, Not a Worker Shortage
Why Michigan Restaurant Workers Are Leaving the Industry, And What Would Make Them Stay The COVID-19 outbreak has had devastating impacts...
Comms
May 5, 20211 min read
It's a Wage Shortage, Not a Worker Shortage
Why Restaurant Workers, Particularly Mothers, Are Leaving the Industry, and What Would Make Them Stay The COVID-19 outbreak has had...
Comms
Apr 30, 20211 min read
Minimizing Wages & Worker Health
How the “Other NRA” Continues to Stymie Critical Progress in Massachusetts Minimizing Wages & Worker Health takes a critical look at how...
Comms
Apr 5, 20211 min read
The Other NRA Exposed
The National Restaurant Association’s Duplicitous Lobbying, Perpetuation of Race and Gender Inequity, and Support for Insurrectionists...
Comms
Mar 31, 20211 min read
New York Brief on The Tipped Minimum Wage as a Gender Equity Issue
There are 350,840 tipped workers in New York state. Over half of New York tipped workers are women, 35 percent of whom are mothers....
Comms
Mar 6, 20211 min read
Illinois, It’s Time To End The Subminimum Wage
Illinois Brief on The Tipped Minimum Wage as a Gender Equity Issue There are over 200,000 tipped workers in Illinois. Over two-thirds of...
Comms
Mar 6, 20211 min read
The Tipping Point
How The Subminimum Wage Keeps Incomes Low and Harassment High As one of the largest employers of women, one of the largest employers of...
Comms
Mar 1, 20211 min read
Doing More For Less
New York Restaurant Workers’ Experiences of Tips, Surcharges, Racial Inequity, and Why They’re Leaving the Industry During Covid-19 In...
Comms
Feb 6, 20211 min read
How the Raise the Wage Act Will Decrease Worker Poverty and Increase Small Business Success in the Maine Restaurant Industry
Although the state minimum wage is $12.15 in Maine, tipped workers in the state are still subject to a subminimum wage of $6.08 an hour....
Comms
Feb 6, 20211 min read
Ending a Legacy of Slavery
How Biden’s Covid Relief Plan Cures the Racist Subminimum Wage In 1963, the wage for tipped workers was $0 an hour, making them...
Comms
Feb 1, 20211 min read
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