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“Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.”

Quote by David Rolf

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David Rolf is an outstanding labor leader, born in 1969. He is renowned for his leadership in the labor rights movement, particularly in organizing and advancing the rights of service industry workers. Rolf has played a significant role in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), making substantial contributions to improving wages and working conditions for millions of service industry workers. more

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“The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.”

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“Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.”

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“Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.”

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“Most fast-food workers can't easily join a union, because they don't work directly for their parent company, such as McDonald's or Subway. Instead, they work for individual franchise owners, ensuring that each individual fast-food outlet would have to organize and win union recognition separately. So there's not one central employer to bargain with, as in a traditional union campaign.”

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“We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.”

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“The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.”

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“People decide what markets should do - they are not a force of nature.”

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“When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.”

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“Businesses generally deal with minimum wage increases by finding efficiencies in their business practices or slightly increasing prices if they have to, not cutting jobs. Of course: because they need staff to make their businesses run!”

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“When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.”

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