The Dirty Secret On Every Restaurant Menu

If you were to devise a system to get and keep a big chunk of America sick, you couldn’t do much better than what we’ve done for restaurant workers. They get paid low wages, get no paid sick days, and are in constant contact with the food we eat every time we go out. Heavy sigh, America, heavy sigh.

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If you were to devise a system to get and keep a big chunk of America sick, you couldn’t do much better than what we’ve done for restaurant workers. They get paid low wages, get no paid sick days, and are in constant contact with the food we eat every time we go out. Heavy sigh, America, heavy sigh.

ORIGINAL: By ROC-United In Action. Found by Marianne Bellesorte who is fighting the good fight at Philadelphia’s Earned Sick Days Campaign.
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