I agree it would suck for the workers in the mean time, but I think the labour market would adapt pretty quickly if servers actually started making $3/hour. No one would want to be a server and restaurants would be forced to pay competitively if they expect to hire anyone.
I think stopping patronizing those restaurants altogether doesn’t send any clear message about why it’s happening. Maybe combined with some large-scale public campaign, but on its own it wouldn’t achieve too much.
They could skip all of the “quit en masse to force an entire industry to change” (which would never happen, by the way, as many tipped workers in the US will tell you that they want it to be like that), and just unionize instead.
Maybe then it could be done without putting millions of people out of work for an unknown period of time.
Well, they would be making the legal minimum wage in their area since their tipped wage does not meet or exceed minimum wage per hours worked. Still not a liveable wage, especially considering the amount of unclocked labor that occurs in the food service industry.
I agree it would suck for the workers in the mean time, but I think the labour market would adapt pretty quickly if servers actually started making $3/hour. No one would want to be a server and restaurants would be forced to pay competitively if they expect to hire anyone.
I think stopping patronizing those restaurants altogether doesn’t send any clear message about why it’s happening. Maybe combined with some large-scale public campaign, but on its own it wouldn’t achieve too much.
They could skip all of the “quit en masse to force an entire industry to change” (which would never happen, by the way, as many tipped workers in the US will tell you that they want it to be like that), and just unionize instead.
Maybe then it could be done without putting millions of people out of work for an unknown period of time.
Well, they would be making the legal minimum wage in their area since their tipped wage does not meet or exceed minimum wage per hours worked. Still not a liveable wage, especially considering the amount of unclocked labor that occurs in the food service industry.
Ah interesting! Yeah fair enough… either $3 or $7, it’s gonna be real tough to staff those positions.