BIG LABOR’S TAXPAYER-FUNDED OCCUPY RESTAURANT SQUAD

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Human Events:

Organized labor has been on a steep decline over the past few years, so they’ve hit on a new tactic for flexing union power: a group called the Restaurant Opportunity Center that uses Big Labor and Occupy Wall Street tactics to pressure restaurants into paying high wages. And guess what? You fund them. You don’t have a choice.

 

Watchdog.org has a report on this new leftist parasite:

 

Using a combination of federal grants and grants from left-leaning organizations, the Restaurant Opportunity Center, or ROC, is technically a charitable nonprofit and not a union. But their pro-worker messages, anti-employer protests and self-proclaimed goal of organizing service sector employees for the purposes of negotiating higher wages make ROC look and sound much like a labor union.

 

Some see their tactics as a deliberate attempt to skirt the nation’s labor laws. Only unions elected by a majority of a workplace can negotiate with employers on workers’ behalf, though ROC seems to be doing so in the absence of any election.

 

But others, including the head of the AFL-CIO, an umbrella group for dozens of labor unions, see ROC and groups like them as the new face of labor organizing in America.