Lucas –
I wanted to pass on this email from KFC worker Joesph Barrera who's standing up against wage theft. In a recent study, 84% of Fast Food workers surveyed had expirenced wage theft at least once last year.
There's no excuse Fast Food CEOs to be stealing wages from minimum wage employees. Click here to stand with workers like Joseph.
- Olivia, NYCC
----Forwarded Message----
From: Joseph Bararra, Fast Food Forward
Subject: This is theft!
Dear Olivia
I'm being stolen from. Almost every week. By KFC. AKA, my employer.
See, I often work more than 40 hours a week. By law, that means I should get overtime pay.
But I don't. And it's not just me. It's me and, according to a recent survey of New York City employees, about 84% of other fast food workers who have had their wages stolen in some way or another by their employers, whether it's working off the clock, not getting paid overtime, being forced to pay for our uniforms, or other ways.
This is shameful and appalling. And it's got to stop. I've asked my boss over and over to stop stealing from me, but I need help. All of us need help.
Will you join me? Please, tell companies like McDonald's, Domino's, Taco Bell, KFC, Popa John's, Pizza Hut and Burger King not only to stop paying their workers poverty wages, but also to stop stealing from us!
Theft is a harsh word -- but that's exactly what this is. I truly believe that the companies will stop -- but only with a public outcry from folks like you (and me!).
For a $200 billion dollar fast food industry, there's just no excuse for short-changing workers, but time after time we see illegal deductions, bounced paychecks, forced hours off the clock, refusal to reimburse for work expenses, and more.
There's a whole lot that needs to change about how fast food companies operate. But at a minimum we should all be able to agree about them not stealing from their workers.
Stand with us today: http://action.fastfoodforward.org/page/s/wage-theft/?utm_source=NYCC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FFF&subsource=email-NYCC
In Solidarity,
Joseph Barrera
KFC Employee
Fast Food Forward