Posted on 07/19/2022 12:48:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain.
Employees at the Augusta, Maine, Chipotle filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board in June asking to hold a union election at the store. It was the first of the Mexican food chain’s stores to file such a petition, according to NLRB filings.
The NLRB had scheduled a hearing Tuesday on Chipotle’s objections to the union election. But early Tuesday, Chipotle announced it was permanently closing the store.
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Instead of lousy jobs you now have no jobs. Well done.
One of their gripes is not enough workers....Sooooo, the store closes, idiots.....
These people see restaurants as cash machines. They don’t seem to realize that restaurants operate on tiny margins, and the line between survival and insolvency is a thin one.
Unionized food poisoning 🤪
When I was a young manager we learned that there was a term for managers who allowed a union to come into our operation:: Fired.
I wonder if they had a Plan B...
Isn’t Chipotle a big dem doner?
Woked corporations don’t like to play by woked business rules.
Restaurants don’t have the profit margins to survive union workers. So it’s a matter of close now or close later.
Their food is overpriced and not very good. Not sure why anyone ever goes there.
“Instead of lousy jobs you now have no jobs. Well done.”
Looks to like typical corporate greed. The employees asked for help and the company said no, we like making all the money with as little labor cost as possible. We like paying one person to do the work required of three.
It’s funny how people who have never had to do crappy work treat the people who do like crap.
and now they won’t.
Whoops!
Few understand what a “margin” is .
Works both ways.I know having seen the difference in workers and management pre union and post union.
The union , just like management, get all they can get out of from the other side. The net effect is a lousy product or service. Eventually the money and job generating endeavour dies....see what unions have done to u.s. car manufacturing, or teachers as great examples.
It is probably easier to close shop or lose business and go bankrupt instead of constantly negotiating with unhappy union workers. Union bosses are just as corrupt as the management. Probably more.
That may be but the employees there aren’t altruists either. I’ve worked food service. My daughter used to manage a Noodles & Co restaurant. Working conditions are more dependent on the local Franchise holder and the employees that work there than corporate demands.
Fast Food companies have relied too long on the desperation of their workers to keep working....
its going to implode....and I don't blame them...
those wages can't pay for gas to get to and from work....
.......what these Union Organizer goons don’t get is that nationwide there is a shortage of labor type employees. In Central Texas, one store offers a $5,000 bonus just to hire a hamburger flipper. He was, or is, so desperate he put the advertisement on a 40’x 14’ billboard 50’ in the air.
These Union guys can file their lawsuit and if they get a favorable venue they might find a marxist judge to help them out but “labor” right now IS HARD TO COME BY and the Unions will lose on that point.
“Not sure why anyone ever goes there.”
Especially not nowadays, when actual Mexicans have been imported into every corner of the nation. And where Mexicans go, taquerias follow.
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