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| Honey Butter Fried Chicken signs on to 'sanctuary restaurant' movement |
| 2017-01-07 |
| [Chicago Tribune] Chicago's Honey Butter Fried Chicken is among a couple of dozen restaurants across the country to sign onto a new "sanctuary restaurant" movement meant to offer safe workplaces for immigrants, Muslims and other communities they feel are under threat in the current political climate. The movement is a joint project of ROC United, a national group that advocates for higher wages for restaurant workers, and Presente.org, whose mission is to "advance Latinx power" (Latinx is a gender-neutral alternative to Latino and Latina). Check the above links and 'follow the money.' It's not about employees, it's about cheap labor and market share. According to a news release Wednesday, sanctuary restaurants do not allow harassment of individuals based on immigrant or refugee status or race, religion, gender or sexual orientation; participate in peer networks to exchange ideas for protecting targeted workers; and agree to place prominent signs that state "SANCTUARY RESTAURANTS: A Place At the Table for Everyone" at their establishments. ROC United co-founder and co-director Saru Jayaraman said in the news release that restaurant workers "are on the front lines of discrimination and hate in America." "While the restaurant industry suffers from a labor shortage, anti-immigrant and sexist rhetoric is now commonplace. Sanctuary Restaurants seeks to create the world we want -- establishments free from hate and discrimination, where everyone has a seat at the table," Jayaraman said. ROC in November had urged signatures for an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump penned by RAISE, its subgroup of supportive employers, asking him to alleviate fear of deportation and harassment of immigrant workers in the restaurant industry. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Who? Never heard of them. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2017-01-07 20:12 |
| #11 My guess is that they will only hire minorities in black population dominated areas, so by definition, blacks are not minorities, so they are SOL, IMHO. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-01-07 17:59 |
| #10 I hope nobody gets upset with me for noticing the name Honey Butter Fried Chicken sounds like it was concocted to appeal to customers in predominantly black neighborhoods. But how many blacks will be employed by this chain? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-01-07 13:16 |
| #9 If you act like a lightning rod, don't whine when the lightning hits you. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-01-07 12:44 |
| #8 'Sanctuary restaurants' = 90% of all U.S. restaurant's kitchen staff. I agree w/ Darth Vader - start checking the I-9's, stat. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-01-07 11:19 |
| #7 Sounds like an excellent place to rob. Sounds like an excellent place to raid - to see how the illegal immigrant employees are treated & paid. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-01-07 10:54 |
| #6 It's a sweatshop, but it's a "sanctuary sweatshop". |
| Posted by: Shipman 2017-01-07 10:42 |
| #5 I suspect the further one 'drills down' into the so-called 'Sanctuary Cities' issue, the more insidious and divisive it may become. Curious isn't it? Seems the recent intelligence report on hacking sited similar 'divisive' goals pursued by Russian intelligence. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-07 10:40 |
| #4 Sounds like an excellent place to rob. After all they wouldn't want to make criminals feel 'threatened' by calling the police or do anything to defend themselves - or their paying customers. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-01-07 10:33 |
| #3 Someone check her papers and taxes, we have to start the line of deportation somewhere. |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2017-01-07 10:30 |
| #2 Who is Saru Jayarman ? [Wikipedia] Jayaraman was named a Champion of Change by the Obama administration in 2014, listed in CNN's "Top10 Visionary Women," and was awarded a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in 2015. She was named one of Crain's New York Business "40 Under 40," 1010 Wins' "Newsmaker of the Year," and New York Magazine's "Influentials" of New York City." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-07 10:24 |
| #1 Sounds like we need to make sure this chain is doing their due diligence with their i-9s. Would be a shame if we had to fine them into bankruptcy... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-01-07 10:14 |