• @Adalast@lemmy.world
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    13410 months ago

    This is 100% bullshit and they 100% know it. They pay employees in Denmark over 20$/hr and the food is actually cheaper there than it is here. If it was unsustainable, then they wouldn’t be doing business in Denmark. The difference between there and here, Denmark is essentially 100% regulated by industry-wide labor unions. Starbucks employees shouldn’t be trying to unionize, the entire fast-food industry should be unionizing together.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-workers-denmark/

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      1410 months ago

      Interesting, I don’t think I’d heard of an industry union like that. It’s a great idea

      • @Adalast@lemmy.world
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        5110 months ago

        Yes you have, the Screen Actors Guild is an industry-wide actor’s union. The Writers Guild of America is an industry-wide guild for writers. The Teamsters as well. Actually most “Blue Collar” unions are industry unions. Plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc. all have industry-wide unions. It is a recent phenomenon relegated to service and sales industries that are forcing unions to be only at single stores instead of industry or even company wide.