The Fight for $15 low wage movement has long had two goals: winning a $15 -an-hour wage for low-paid workers and a union for fast-food workers.
A Manhattan-based union local that works closely with the Fight for $15 has launched an effort to unionize Chipotle and McDonald’s workers, getting workers at more than 50 restaurants to sign pro-union cards.
We’re organizing in order to lift workers and improve their lives.”.
Union officials say a majority of the hundreds of fast-food workers organizers have approached have signed cards supporting a union.
Jeremy Espinal, who works at a Chipotle in Greenwich Village, said he supports unionization because managers often treat workers with little respect.
The more than 40 Chipotle restaurants in New York where Local 32BJ has begun organizing efforts are all owned and run by the parent company.
“A majority of people who work at Chipotle” in New York “are minorities or immigrants or children of immigrants”, he said. »
