YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND
the
34th Annual McBride Lecture
Behind the Kitchen Door:
Restaurant Workers & Their Struggle for Justice
With Saru Jayaraman
Monday, March 24
7:30pm
Hesburgh Library Auditorium, University of Notre Dame
Free and Open to the Public. Free parking is available directly east of the Library.
With more than 10 million workers, the restaurant industry is one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the U.S. economy; it is also the lowest-paying. Six of the ten lowest-paying jobs in the United States are restaurant jobs, and seventy percent of tipped restaurant workers are women. While the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, the minimum for workers who receive tips is just $2.13. Many of the women and men who put food on our tables cannot afford to feed their families. Servers use food stamps at double the rate of the rest of the U.S. workforce, and are three times as likely to live in poverty. Saru Jayaraman, author of Behind the Kitchen Door, will discuss restaurant workers and their struggle for justice in the workplace, including liveable wages and better working conditions.
Saru Jayaraman is the Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley and the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United). She is the author of Behind the Kitchen Door, (Cornell University Press, 2013) and a collaborator/co-writer of "A Dime A Day: The Impact of the Miller/Harkin Minimum Wage Proposal on the Price of Food" (October 2012) and "The Hands that Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain" (June 2012). Saru is also the co-editor of The New Urban Immigrant Workforce (ME Sharpe, 2005). She is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Sponsored by the Higgins Labor Studies Program and the United Steelworkers with co-sponsorship by the Center for Social Concerns.
