Chicago leaders joined city restaurant workers Monday in cooking up a rally to ask for more money for workers.
leaders joined city restaurant workers Monday in cooking up a rally to ask for more money for workers.
They talked about Illinois' role in a recently exposed scheme by the National Restaurant Association. The scheme allowed the association to use funds from workers required to take food safety training towards lobbying efforts to suppress the same workers' wages and maintaining the minimum wage for tipped workers.
"These workers have been struggling with the highest rates of poverty and sexual harassment of any industry in the United States for decades because they've had to put up with so much to get tips from customers. That became unlivable with the pandemic.
Advocates want to end the subminimum wage for tipped workers, despite the National Restaurant Association lobbying, given the staffing crisis.DAILY NEWSLETTERthat I have read and agree
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