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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDarden Restraunt Brands...So you know....Against sick pay for their employees..
See the story below..This chain is against sick pay for employees. It helped to draft a bill with Disney World in the Florida Legislature to prevent localities from passing laws which would have mandated sick pay.
original post in Latest News by onehandle
from his post.............
"The Florida Senate voted Friday to prevent local communities their enacting their own wage and benefits laws until a statewide study can be conducted, The Orlando Sentinel reports."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014467902
Here are the brands..
Red Lobster
Olive Garden
Long Horn Steakhouse
Bahama Breeze
Seasons 52
The Capital Grille
Eddie V's
Yard House
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So, local communities cannot have local control....sounds like the big government from Florida wants to control the localities.....
.doesn't sound fair to me...if localities want to control their businesses...say like zoning..they have that right..don't they? or is that also controlled by the state...? Think about the hypocrisy...
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Red Lobster and Olive Garden particularly. They are prolly on an "austerity" footing.
Journeyman
(15,024 posts)You'd think, for a chain that specializes in obesity and heart disease, they'd favor health care as a means to keep their best customers coming back.
antigone382
(3,682 posts)Enjoy your "buttery sauce" (also known as MSG-infused, partially hydrogenated soybean oil with proprietary seasonings).
It was hands-down the most inhuman, soulless place I ever worked.
edhopper
(33,479 posts)than factory produced corporate swill.
randr
(12,409 posts)our waitperson coughed the whole time. We felt so sorry for her because we knew she had to work or else.
timdog44
(1,388 posts)having sick pay. Ridiculous not to.
The thing I see here is that the states that push the hardest for state's rights are the first in line to deny locality rights. The hypocracy of, lets see -- which party?
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)The asshats in Tallahassee have over ridden local governments from gun laws to school taxes to pensions and everything in between. They basically want to starve local governments into submission.
Two years and I'm outta this festering hellhole.
timdog44
(1,388 posts)holding out for the next years.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)If businesses don't like it and move, then localities will change it back, if it matters that much to the area.
lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)And if they have something communicable (cold, flu, etc) they
are more likely to pass it on to Darden's valued customers.
Thanks a lot Darden on behalf of your employees.
Initech
(100,038 posts)And I hope that day comes soon. This is shit that should not be.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)I hope to live long enough to see the public rise up against our corporate overlords.
freedom fighter jh
(1,782 posts)At a restaurant. Many of them handling food. Spreading germs.
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)I know it is not loved on DU but I've always liked it. I hardly ever eat there since they don't have one in my town but it was something I might do on occasion when traveling. But I won't eat there now after hearing this. Disrespectful to both employees and customers.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)onethatcares
(16,161 posts)is worried about big government intruding on state government. they cannot see the irony here.
the florida senate, the best bought representation in the U.S. of A.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)until we do it?
Omaha Steve
(99,497 posts)K&R BTW!
http://www.seashepherd.org/documents/seals/red_lobster.html
The Canadian commercial seal hunt is the largest marine mammal slaughter in the world. Every year, Canadian fishermenmost of whom are from the province of Newfoundlandbludgeon or shoot, and then skin over 300,000 young seals. Most are only a few weeks old. Tens of thousands are skinned alive.
The fishermen kill the seals for their skins. Other products like marine oil, meat, and penises are of secondary importance. The seals' skins are sold to satisfy the frivolous whims of the fur trinket, fur fashion, and exotic leather industriesindustries that thrive on ignorance, vanity, cruelty, and greed.
At the end of the sealing season, most Newfoundland sealers, and particularly boat owners who profit most from sealing, go crab fishing. Snow crab is the sealers' and Newfoundland's most important seafood export. In 2003, Newfoundland exported $467 million worth of seafood worldwide; $350 million of that was snow crab sold to the United States where the Red Lobster restaurant chain is the sealers' largest customer.
Please ask Red Lobster President Kim Lopdrup to help end the Canadian commercial seal hunt by not serving Canadian seafood to his guests until Canadian fishermen stop killing the seals.
Kim A. Lopdrup, President
Red Lobster Restaurants
PO Box 593330
Orlando FL 32859-3330
5900 Lake Ellenor Dr.
Orlando FL 32809-4634
Tel: 1 (407) 245-4000
1 (800) 562-7837
e-mail: www.redlobster.com/contact_us/
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)Do not pay minimum wage, do not provide health care or sick days. Clearly these people have no concern or respect for their employees or their customers. I bet they live in nice houses, drive nice cars and go to church and pretend to be nice people.
alp227
(32,006 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)rucky
(35,211 posts)when I'd never set foot in one on the food alone?
Doremus
(7,261 posts)Do your best to discourage anyone you know from patronizing these places.
That's what I plan to do.
TRoN33
(769 posts)I never really liked all of these restaurants at all anyways. I can make my own Philly Cheese Steak 110% better than Longhorn Steakhouse.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)wilsonbooks
(972 posts)I did.
rl6214
(8,142 posts)Specifically Red Lobster. They lost their compassion for their employees about 2005 with a change in upper level management. I left in 07 just for that reason.
antigone382
(3,682 posts)Absolutely the worst job of my life. They made it so abundantly clear that your humanity was not important, that you were completely replaceable, and that employing you was almost a burden to them. I would never work there again, much less eat there.
rl6214
(8,142 posts)The Kim lopdrop regime ruined the company.
Mopar151
(9,975 posts)Kicks ass of any mass produced italian, and the difference in price does'nt pay the gas to go further to the chain joints.
eppur_se_muova
(36,247 posts)The reason she kept cooking for people was that she needed the income.
TacoD
(581 posts)I see they bought them in 2012.