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“Look, 90% of restaurant employees were terminated in mid-March last year. They didn’t get on unemployment bc they’re lazy...they were fired.”

Now, many of those employers blame UI benefits as they struggle to find workers for $2.13/hr.

The real story: mississippifreepress.org/12527/breaking…

"So many workers have left an industry that clearly doesn’t value them, whose model is predicated on them being disposable. Frankly,” Weil said, “a lot of industry people are dead. Line cooks had a higher mortality rate this past year than medical workers.”mississippifreepress.org/12527/breaking…

"These establishments chose not to use that PPP money to rehire workers for hybrid models, or to-go models...Industry workers didn’t opt out of work. They were all terminated by places that were happy to operate without them, until the pandemic was over.” 
mississippifreepress.org/12527/breaking…

"In a lot of places, there’s a disconnect between management and workers. If you don’t want to understand,” he shrugged, “people will give up.”

“What’s that saying?” Weil said, laughing. “Capitalism for the workers and socialism for the ownership.” mississippifreepress.org/12527/breaking…

If you want the REAL story behind the labor shortage in the restaurant industry, don't just ask business owners; ask front-line workers.

And read @NickJudin's story here—because that's exactly what he did!
mississippifreepress.org/12527/breaking…

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