![]() ![]() That day, protesters held up a poster board with a timeline of the “racist, fraudulent history of the other NRA” – a play on words comparing the National Restaurant Association to the National Rifle Association.Īsked about the Times report, Chip Bouchard, a spokesperson for the Illinois Restaurant Association, said the state association supported an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour when the measure went before Chicago’s City Council in 2019. “They closed their doors on us without any warning, wouldn’t pick up the phone, wouldn’t answer any questions about what was going on, and I never got my final paycheck, yet ServSafe is working against us.” “I showed up to work one day in 2019 and the doors were locked,” said Morano. Morano, a former server at a North Side Applebee’s, said at the rally that, if the restaurant association insists on charging fees for workers to complete ServSafe certification, he’d prefer funds from the mandatory training go towards lobbying for legislation that would protect workers from abrupt layoffs. 14 rally in front of the National Restaurant Association’s Chicago headquarters brought out restaurant industry worker Julio Morano. ![]() Samantha Callender / WBEZThe National Restaurant Association is based in Washington, D.C., but has an Illinois chapter headquartered in the Loop. He said he’d rather lobbying funds go toward protections for service workers from abrupt layoffs. ![]() Julio Morano previously worked as a server at a North Side Applebee’s. ![]()
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