Restaurant workers are rarely unionized. In fact, their owners are subsidized as the fact customers usually pay extra in tips to pay the salaries that restaurant owners do not kick in for the people who make the business operate efficiently. The waiters,waitresses and busboys are among the most docile and abused workers in the American labor market and few see any changes. The Bergoff Restaurant was a hundred year old place in the heart of downtown Chicago. it was the only restaurant I never heard of having a unionized workforce. The old owners decided to close the place a few years back. They effectively wanted to end this practice of paying their workers a living wage. The kids took over operation and reopened the place as effectively the closure was just an excuse to get rid of the unionized work force. Restaurant workers should be the most vocal of all workers to unionize as they by far hold leverage and power over the owners. Unfortunately, like most of America they are in a baked daze never unable to bargain for better conditions in an industry that needs total revolution. The owners are never able to do all the things themselves that you need in a large staffed restaurant. The workers who cook the food and serve the customers are the ones that allow these restaurant owners to take the boat vacations on the lake or to go to the ski trips in Aspen. One of these days they will realize this inequality and walk off on these crummy jobs that make up too large a percentage of the modern day workforce.
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