School cafeterias are ordering pizza and getting volunteer parents in to feed students amid labor shortages. The Biden administration has an idea: Schools should hire cafeteria workers as full-time employees so they can be part of a union.
The task force is recommending that, when it comes to school cafeteria workers, the Department of Agriculture explore how it can use its"purchasing power with subgrantees and their contractors to employ full-time workers in the school lunch and child nutrition programs."that many cafeteria workers have"short-hour positions," where they technically don't work full time. That can disqualify them from receiving full-time benefits, such as health insurance.
"The Secretary of Agriculture has the authority to provide for USDA-administered school lunch and child nutrition programs and has the discretion to enact requirements necessary to carry out such programs in order to safeguard the public interest, including the nutritional needs of children," the task force's report said."This authority should be exercised to ensure that subgrantees and their contractors retain a stable and high-quality workforce of full-time employees.
Across the economy, many sectors are dealing with so-called labor shortages, although data on who's leaving suggests workers may see it as more of aThe task force's report said that using full-time employees would"likely ensure uninterrupted service delivery of food services." Moving workers to full time could also increase the union-membership-rate density since full-time workers were more likely to be union members.
said the union membership for full-time workers in 2021 was 11.1%, compared to 6.1% for part-time workers. Workers who were members of unions made almost $200 more a week compared to their peers who weren't union members., following a decades-long trend. Of the workers in occupations related to food preparation and serving, 3.5% were represented by unions.Subscribe to push notifications
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