-PJ
Posted on 09/09/2018 8:05:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Employees at a Pacific Northwest burger chain triggered a new policy after employees wore buttons that read “Abolish ICE” and “No one is illegal” with their uniforms.
Ten employees of fast food restaurant Burgerville, located in Portland, Ore., were sent home for a day last month when they refused to remove the buttons while on their shift, The Oregonian reported.
The silent protest came amid national outrage regarding the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy that previously separated thousands of migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border.
Calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be dissolved has become a popular pledge for many Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.
Burgerville Human Resources Director Liz Graham told the newspaper that customers complained about the employees' buttons.
"Guests provided feedback that they didn't want to see personal and political messages while they ate," Graham said. "Additionally, some employees expressed that the content of the buttons was drawing unwanted attention that made them uncomfortable."
The company said in a statement to Fox News on Sunday that the employees violated a longstanding non-written policy to abstain from politics while on the clock.
“Some of our employees have been wearing buttons expressing their political views at work. While Burgerville had a long-standing verbal policy prohibiting the wearing of personal buttons, we did not have a written policy about this," the company said in the statement.
The buttons led to the creation of a new policy in an effort to create a “universally welcoming and inclusive environment.”
“We are instituting an updated uniform policy, and buttons and other messaging – both political and personal – will not be allowed. It is a policy that is common in public-facing businesses and is in alignment with our mission to Serve With Love," the statement read.
The new rule will go into effect on Sept. 13.
The move comes amid negotiations between the company and fast food chain’s union, Burgerville Workers Union.
Workers at the Oregon restaurant chain made history in April by becoming the first formally recognized fast food union in the country
Workers at the Oregon restaurant chain made history in April by becoming the first formally recognized fast food union in the country
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They’ll make history again as they are replaced by machines.
Wow, common sense with tolerance and respect for other people’s views?
What a novel idea and in Oregon of all places.
To the virtue signaling lib employees... Wear your uniforms, do your jobs and keep your yaps shut about politics. Works every time it’s tried.
Too bad they went Union. The only way to undo this co-ownership trap may be to find enough reason to fire, lay off, or suspend all the present staff. The kids working there show zero loyalty to their employer. There must not be any Shift Manager or Lead Staff at all.
4 months after allowing their employees to unionize, the union embarrasses them on the national stage. This is not good for business, idiots. liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
I’m surprised they did go union. They are an independent burger company in Oregon that doesn’t seem to toe the line...but, I guess their workforce does.
Abolish ICE = Abolish USA
-PJ
When flair goes bad.
What happens if some workers don’t want to wear the buttons?
It’s not very hard to hire 10 more people who can be taught to flip burgers.
+2!
Hope the union doesn’t cause them grief over this. There are unwritten dress code rules at my place of employment and if I had a dollar for every, “It’s not in the handbook”, I’d be rich.
sheesh - give em a Union and the next thing they go all Occasional-Cortex on ya.
Stupid on parade, yea its Oregon.
Burgerville Workers Union? LMAO
Now if GoodBurger had had a union, Ed would have been properly compensated for his special sauce.
Next you know they will be wearing “Occasional-Cotex” campaign buttons.
Want to see the protesting workers heads explode? Go in and order an “ICE T” and see them crap in their pants as they won’t know whether you are referring to the drink, ICE the agency, or the actor.
Better yet, coming in singing “ICE, BABY, ICE” and watch them scatter like roaches in a spotlight.
A smart manager will ask the customer, “Would you like free fries with that”?
Good.
Go, get a hamburger at that place. Good management.
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