http://www.greerconsultinginc.com/ Fast food workers strike, but do the have all the facts about labor unions, labor relations & the SEIU? Jason Greer Labor Relations expert explains.

My name is Jason Greer, Labor Relations, labor law and Employee Relations Expert and Former Board Agent with the National Labor Relations Board. Perhaps you've heard about fast food workers protests calling for pay of $15 an hour. Workers have staged protests in restaurants such as McDonald's, Burger King and Taco Bell. This movement has supposedly grown so large that a world-wide day of fast food protests is expected in the United States and 30 other countries. This whole thing is being pushed by the Service Employees International Union or SEIU as they are commonly referred. SEIU is one of the largest unions in the United States. They commonly work within the Health Care industry but it seems that they are now venturing into the uncharted waters of attempting to organize fast food employees.

Here's my take...labor unions are dying off in this country. They barely represent 6.9% of the privatized work force. They are struggling for relevancy especially as more companies have worked to strengthen their employee relations and industrial relations practices. This is why unions are venturing into the world of fast food. My message to these fast food workers who are being fed all of these promises by union organizers is very simple don't buy it. If unions are incapable of protecting the jobs of workers they have historically represented, then what protection are they going to offer you? Have they clearly articulated how they plan to force McDonald's, Burger King and Taco Bell to pay you $15 dollars an hour? What's going to happen to you when the media attention dies down, as it eventually will, and SEIU has moved on to another industry?