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Letter: Listen to employees on tipping, not activists
September 2023 · Rebekah Paxton · New York Daily News
Arlington, Va: In her Sept. 4 op-ed, “On this Labor Day, a tip for New York’s leaders,” Reshma Saujani argues for eliminating New York’s tip credit without acknowledging how doing so would hurt the very employees she claims to advocate for. Saujani says “people hate tipping.” Yet, her source for this claim finds that 83% of restaurant-goers are routine tippers. In fact, the growing use of alternative… -
Letter: This Labor Day, remember to give workers tips
September 2023 · Rebekah Paxton · Santa Cruz Sentinel
If you dine out this Labor Day weekend, remember to tip your server or bartender. Tips and the tipped wage system allow restaurant workers to earn 3-4 times the minimum wage, on average. Top earners can bring in $40 or more. Anti-worker activist groups such as the Restaurant Opportunities Center are spending big to eliminate the tipping system. They oppose it for ideological reasons, and would rather… -
Remember to tip your food servers
September 2023 · Rebekah Paxton · The Eagle
If you dine out this Labor Day weekend, remember to tip your server or bartender. Tips and the tipped wage system allow restaurant workers to earn three to four times the minimum wage, on average. Top earners can bring in $40 or more. Anti-worker activist groups such as the Restaurant Opportunities Center are spending big to eliminate the tipping system. They oppose it for ideological reasons, and… -
Taylor Swift should ignore the hollow hysterics of Unite Here Local 11 and continue shows as normal
August 2023 · Michael Saltsman · Orange County Register
Thousands of spirited Swifties will descend on Los Angeles starting this weekend, for a six-night run of Taylor’s ERAS tour at SoFi Stadium. The fans will bring with them millions of dollars in needed economic activity for Inglewood and the surrounding community. The only group unhappy about this? Self-interested hotel union Unite Here Local 11. In a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times, the union called on… -
Los Angeles’s Inhospitality Union
July 2023 · Michael Saltsman · Wall Street Journal
They want to impose a 7% guest fee and put vagrants next to tourists in hotels. Visitors to Los Angeles can soak up the sun this summer, but good luck finding a quiet hotel room. Thank Unite Here Local 11, the city’s militant hospitality union, which according to federal filings represents more than 20,000 workers. This month, members have gone on three raucous strikes during peak tourism season. Hotel workers… -
Lawmakers should learn from DC’s harmful tipping experiment
July 2023 · Rebekah Paxton · Washington Examiner
On Saturday, the District of Columbia sees its second wage hike for tipped restaurant workers this year — going up to $8 per hour after rising to $6 per hour just two months ago. Yet even in its early stages, the city’s restaurants and employees are already feeling harsh consequences. Until this year, the district’s tip credit allowed employers to count service employees’ tips toward the regular minimum wage requirement. This…