The minimum wage “movement” in Seattle has already been exposed as a move by local Service Employees International Union leader David Rolf to exert political power (and grow his share of union dues). Now a lawsuit has uncovered even more details on Rolf’s anti-small business agenda.
The association which represents franchise owners has filed a lawsuit against Seattle’s new minimum wage law, for treating franchise businesses – no matter how small – the same as large (500+ workers) businesses for purposes of imposing a $15 minimum wage requirement on them sooner. According to internal emails, “This blatantly unfair and discriminatory provision was added at the request of the SEIU.”
Further, documents obtained reveal that “David Rolf, president of the SEIU in Washington, admits that part of the union’s motivation for the higher wage in Seattle was to break the business model for franchises. In so doing, he would clear the way for the SEIU to more easily unionize fast-food employees and expand the union’s dwindling membership ranks and financial coffers.”
Far from the minimum wage effort being driven by grassroots pressure, evidently Kshama Sawant and rest of the Seattle City Council, and Mayor Ed Murray, have just been tools for David Rolf’s attempt to fatten SEIU’s bank account.
This guy makes a ton of money and spends dues money to sit first class on airplanes on his way to Washington. He always sits on seat 1A. Really? And you’re for the little guy?
This guy makes a ton of money and spends dues money to sit first class on airplanes on his way to Washington. He always sits on seat 1A. Really? And you’re for the little guy?