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David Rolf

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[Wikipedia] David Rolf is an American labor leader, writer, and speaker. He was the Founding President of Seattle-based Local 775 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents health care workers, and formerly served as international vice president of SEIU. He is the author of The Fight

Quotes by David Rolf

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…

Annuals

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

Force

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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.

Basics

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The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income…

Assistants

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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…

Half

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

Income

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A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the…

Candidates

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Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

Compensation

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

Achieve

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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,…

Business

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

Employing

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The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.

Adults

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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…

Cost

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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.…

Bargains

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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…

Done

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