Women workers take on MN restaurant lobby over tip penalty

[Omaha Steve]

June 28, 2018 by Union Advocate


St. Paul barista Evann Zuckerman joins a march on the Minnesota Restaurant Association’s offices in St. Paul.

Women workers delivered a message to the state’s powerful restaurant lobby yesterday that an attack on tipped workers’ wages is an attack on women.

Tipped workers joined union members and other supporters in a march on the Minnesota Restaurant Association’s offices in St. Paul, where the women staged a rally and delivered a letter demanding the organization end its campaign to carve out a subminimum “tipped wage” in St. Paul.

“I want to keep one fair wage in my industry,” St. Paul barista Evann Zuckerman told other activists at the rally. “I want the MRA out of the way, and to stop putting profits over people.”

Mayor Melvin Carter, who made a $15 citywide minimum wage the centerpiece of his 2017 election campaign, wants an ordinance on the books by the end of the year. Among the biggest questions he and City Council members face in drafting the ordinance is whether to include a tipped wage.

FULL story: https://advocate.stpaulunions.org/2018/06/28/women-workers-take-on-mn-restaurant-lobby-over-tip-penalty/

[MichMan]

1. Wonder how many servers are on board with this?

Not sure that a large number would really favor eliminating tips to trade for a $15 hourly wage.