The film “Eyes on the Fries: Young Workers in the Service Economy” will be shown Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, 1501 Hennepin Ave. S. The screening will be in Room L3000 of the library in Whitney Hall (take the elevator to the third floor and follow the signs).
The screening is free and open to all. Following the 20-minute film, workers active in the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) will hold a panel discussion on organizing in the fast food sector in the Twin Cities.
Young people are coming of age in a service economy. Seven of the ten fastest-growing jobs are in the service sector: jobs like cashier, sales clerk, and fast food preparer. These positions are low-wage, part-time, and offer few benefits, little training and no job security. Young workers, who are concentrated in service sector jobs, bear the brunt of the rapid and unregulated expansion of the low-wage, service economy.
The voices of young workers are rarely, if ever, heard in public debates about issues that affect their lives. "Eyes on the Fries” features the successful campaign to raise the minimum wage in San Francisco, and the daily struggles of young workers from Oakland to Brooklyn. The video and discussion give young workers the opportunity to talk about their struggles to survive in the service economy.
The Nov. 10 event is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service as part of its Labor in the Community programming, the Minneapolis Community and Technical College Departments of Philosophy and Political Science and the IWW-Twin Cities.
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The film “Eyes on the Fries: Young Workers in the Service Economy” will be shown Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, 1501 Hennepin Ave. S. The screening will be in Room L3000 of the library in Whitney Hall (take the elevator to the third floor and follow the signs).
The screening is free and open to all. Following the 20-minute film, workers active in the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) will hold a panel discussion on organizing in the fast food sector in the Twin Cities.
Young people are coming of age in a service economy. Seven of the ten fastest-growing jobs are in the service sector: jobs like cashier, sales clerk, and fast food preparer. These positions are low-wage, part-time, and offer few benefits, little training and no job security. Young workers, who are concentrated in service sector jobs, bear the brunt of the rapid and unregulated expansion of the low-wage, service economy.
The voices of young workers are rarely, if ever, heard in public debates about issues that affect their lives. "Eyes on the Fries” features the successful campaign to raise the minimum wage in San Francisco, and the daily struggles of young workers from Oakland to Brooklyn. The video and discussion give young workers the opportunity to talk about their struggles to survive in the service economy.
The Nov. 10 event is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service as part of its Labor in the Community programming, the Minneapolis Community and Technical College Departments of Philosophy and Political Science and the IWW-Twin Cities.