[Popman]

The SEIU has been attempting to unionize fast food workers, and as part of a broader effort, trying to get independent franchisees declared as "joint employers" so as to facilitate that process and gain access to the much deeper pockets of the franchisors.

Well, that's a hail mary pass if I ever saw one...

Legally...I don't see how that would ever happen, but of course we are not in "normal" times...

Like living in a bad Ayn Rand novel...

The SEIU petition if found by the courts legally sound, would mean the end of the fast food industry as we know it...

All fast food companies would buy back all their franchises at some time..

[arthurus]

If they succeed in unionizing fast food they will have a union with no members but they will be able to get wages and benefits up to the level of that of auto workers or even higher. Or maybe there will have to be two $40/hour employees in each McD’s whose job is to stand around in spiffy uniforms pointing at the equipment between their 15 minute hourly breaks.

[arthurus]

Maybe fast food will all become Amazon deliveries by quadrotor.