Senators are demanding answers from the National Restaurant Association (NRA) after an explosive New York Times investigation revealed that the group has secretly used millions of dollars of workers’ own pocket money to lobby against raising their wages.
to keep restaurants open despite the high risk to diners and workers, much of its lobbying efforts are aimed at suppressing workers’ wages.New York Times
investigators wrote. The last time the lobby lost a campaign was in 2007, when Congress passed the current minimum wage. That was when the group started contemplating new forms of revenue, including buying ServSafe, the report finds. On the federal level, the industry has been winning ever since. As for states, the NRA sends lobbying funds to state level industry organizations, and has won state-level fights like convincing four of the largest states to mandate food safety training like theirs.
“Requiring these workers to fund advocacy for policies that keep their wages down and leave many of them in poverty is unconscionable,” the lawmakers wrote. “The National Restaurant Association’s underhanded and unscrupulous weaponization of ServSafe to fund its anti-worker lobbying operation by funneling the fees workers pay for the program into the very lobbying scheme that advocates to keep their wages and benefits stagnant deserves further scrutiny.
The letter asks the NRA to elucidate how much it’s made from ServSafe courses and how much of the money was spent on lobbying, and to indicate whether it plans on communicating with workers over how the fees are being used in the future.. Lawmakers have been pushing to raise the minimum wage for years now, but their efforts have been thwarted time and again by conservatives on both sides of the aisle; the original “Fight for $15” campaign waged by fast food workers is now over a decade old.
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