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Saru Jayaraman: At least in the restaurant industry, people are saying "Enough is enough!" This is 150 yrs in the making. Restaurant wages were set in 1865 when owners wanted to pay almost no wages, making employees live on tips.
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage #RaiseTheWageAct
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage #RaiseTheWageAct
Saru Jayaraman: Why bother? Before the pandemic, workers just made it by with their tips & making min. wage of $2.83/hr. During pandemics, state govts told workers they made TOO LITTLE to get unemployment benefits.
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage #RaiseTheWageAct #OneFairWage
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage #RaiseTheWageAct #OneFairWage
Rick: We didn't pay them, but we called them "essential workers."
Saru Jayaraman: CDC said restaurants were the most dangerous places to work, even above hospitals. Health risks way up, wages/tips way down. Customer hostility through the roof.
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage
Saru Jayaraman: CDC said restaurants were the most dangerous places to work, even above hospitals. Health risks way up, wages/tips way down. Customer hostility through the roof.
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage
I'm glad @chefjoseandres is supporting #OneFairWage in NY this year after opposing it in DC in 2018, but it is important to note that he seems only to be supporting it because the wage increase request is coupled with other requests, like for "tax relief." washingtoncitypaper.com/article/504447…
Sadly, José Andres is still making things up about the push to abolish the subminimum wage for tipped workers in DC in 2018, though this time, the falsehood is more bizarre than anything else. What is he even talking about? 
This sentence is also fascinating to me because it's clearly José Andres's own fault that he became the "poster boy" against fair wages in DC. He behaved in a Trumpian fashion! I had some firsthand experience with that.
URGENT! WE NEED YOUR HELP TO CALL GOVERNOR CUOMO ASAP AT 518-474-8390 & URGE HIM TO ENACT ONE FAIR WAGE NOW! THREAD: [1/10]
Fact: Tipped restaurant workers were left out of Gov. Cuomo’s executive wage order last year, ending the subminimum wage in New York state for nearly 1 million service industry workers in ‘miscellaneous’ industries. [2/10]
Fact: The largest industry with tipped workers earning a subminimum wage is the restaurant industry. [3/10]
