Episode 173: Union-backed Black Lives Matter Strikes Gaining Traction

Media coverage around Monday’s “Strike for Black Lives” continues to intensify signaling that the unions and their labor community allies will be pulling out all the stops to ensure a signature event. We will bring you the latest on that and how operators should prepare. And the politics of masks took a significant turn this week as major retailers took unilateral action and mandated that customers wear masks in order to enter their stores. We’ll discuss the potential political impacts for the restaurant industry which has resisted taking similar actions. And we’ll update you on the week that was in the political world and who’s up and who’s down as a result. We’ll have those stories and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.