TESTIMONY
Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public, on the Rights and Protections for Fast Food Workers and Delivery Personnel
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Christopher Leon Johnson, speaking as a member of the public, advocates for better rights and protections for fast food workers and delivery personnel.
- He discusses his background as a shop steward in a security workers' union and his efforts to support fast food workers.
- Johnson criticizes corporations for being greedy and trying to avoid unions to fire workers easily.
- He calls for delivery workers to be included under the same labor laws as fast food workers in New York City.
- Johnson urges the city council to classify delivery workers in the fast food division to provide them rights and a $20 minimum wage.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Hey.
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Good morning.
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My name is Christopher Leon Johnson on the record.
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Let me make this clear.
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I used to be a member of dirt to be j as a shop steward under the security division.
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So I know the plight of you, fast food workers.
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I used to fight with you guys, with the help of my business person, Benita Mercado, and Mister Izzy Melendez.
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Let me make this clear.
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Right?
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You know, what's going on is these corporations, they're really greedy, and they really corrupt.
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And what they're doing is they what they wanna do is try to find ways save as much money as possible.
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The problem with the thing about unions is it's hard to fire people.
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Once you're part of union, it's hard to fire people.
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And the thing that the unions have to make clear is that they have to help the the employers get rid of bad employees.
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Because if we don't get rid of bad employees, it gives the the businesses, the ammunition to be anti union.
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This goes on with Amazon.
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This happens a lot of places where unions like Walmart.
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And maybe Walmart.
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But let me make this clear to put my last one minute.
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The delirrisas, you know, they're gonna have a hub down at right outside the hall, very soon.
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Lost over the knee stones.
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Right?
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Grand bike, Denver, just a project.
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You know, what you guys need to do as the city council is find a way to put these guys in the same category as the fastened workers so they could be get the same rights and privileges as the fastened workers under New York City.
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Workers passed passed passed Workers Law with the best in 14 days.
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If you just make them regular, like, put them in the division of the Liberalistas, it's not going to do 8 things.
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You're gonna make you have to make more bills and more laws instead of saying, okay.
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When you make these people employees here, put them into the fast food division.
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And I hope you guys and city councilor, you missed the chairman and majority leader, Farrias, you need to talk to Izzy Melendez and have him put the deliris with the help of Liggetalapo and Gustavo and Antonio and Alejandro and and and Marty, wait wait.
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I know I know into the the fast food division of Thrifty BJ, not a separate deliveries does because 65,000 deliveries does You add them to the fast with the vision.
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It will save a lot of headache and a lot of paperwork, and they'll have a lot of right, especially with the minimum wage rate.
Julie Menin
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I'm just gonna ask you to wrap Okay.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Yeah.
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I'll schedule the minimum the minimum wage laws that they put implemented $20 an hour.
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So I gotta go.
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I'll schedule you guys.
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I gotta go.
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Thank you for the time.