Collective Action Can Save Restaurant Industry Workers  - Eater Portland

"I’d been working at Little Big Burger a year when State Bill 828 passed, making it mandatory for businesses with over 500 workers to publish schedules with at least a week’s notice. Management promised to implement two-week schedules before the law went into effect in July. February and March came. Then April, May, June, and July went by — still, our schedules came out with only one or two days’ notice before our shifts. My co-workers and I were fed up. We got together and wrote a letter to management asking that they abide by the law. Many of us were scared of conflict, possible retaliation, getting hours cut, or losing our jobs. Yet every worker at the store signed. Each signature loudly said, we can’t plan our lives on a day’s notice." - Cameron Crowell