The rule — announced late last month by the National Labor Relations Board –- sets new standards for determining when two companies should be considered “joint employers” under the National Labor Relations Act.
It sounds wonky. But essentially, the rule could widen the number of companies that must participate in labor negotiations alongside their franchisees or independent contractors. For example, it might require Burger King to bargain with workers even though most of its U.S. restaurants are owned by franchisees. Or it could require Amazon to negotiate with delivery drivers who are employed by independent contractors.
Look, we need to be demanding free education because there’s no world in which McDonalds allows a union. You guys seen the price of a burger and the SIZE recently? The only way they’re going to respond is by firing everyone and putting a rush on flippy.
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Some careers get automated, some jobs aren’t worth keeping and this is absolutely one of them. Fast food work is going away and it’s not coming back, just like the milkman or the newspaper delivery kid.
Good. Using machines to do the work we don’t want to is how we started producing more food than we can eat and enabled us to focus more on what we enjoy.