Opinion: I’m one of the service workers who left the restaurant industry during the pandemic. Serve yourself

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From 2021: 'Before the pandemic, many of us working-class people were hustling so hard we didn’t have time to question the way we were living, nor the way we were being treated by our employers – which is to say, in both cases, often poorly.'

And yet that hasn’t stopped pundits, and even some restaurateurs, from decrying our lack of good ol’ fashioned work ethic and blaming the government dole for keeping us from returning to our rightful place: tableside, making them money and waiting on our betters.

It’s also indicative of the way much of society thinks about working-class bodies: as expendable, interchangeable, replaceable parts of a capitalist machine over which it has ownership. Some people not only feel entitled to our labour, but to pay as little for it as possible. found the risk of death during the pandemic increased 40 per cent for food and agricultural workers in California.You’ll have to excuse us if we’re not champing at the bit to get back to bringing you your dinner.

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Regardless of who wins the next election, this is why we need to take in even more immigrants! Canadian workers are too lazy and entitled to work for poverty wages! JustinTrudeau PierrePoilievre theJagmeetSingh

Nice picture, in multiculturalism Canada, with most cultures, the person in the picture looks like a questionable figure. Any way, that render the article meaningless.

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