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Papa John’s isn’t the first restaurant chain to wind up in the crosshairs of New York’s attorney general.

Union, Prosecutor Team to Push Papa John’s to Pay More


By Heritage Foundation Kevin Mooney——--December 1, 2014

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A union operative generously praised New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman when he announced he was taking a Papa John’s pizza franchisee to court on behalf of workers who claim they were underpaid. The state attorney general, like the unions, called it “wage theft.”

The thing is, the union official knew about the government’s lawsuit before the pizza franchisee did. “Fast-food workers all across the city and country are organizing for higher pay and union rights,” said Kendall Fells, organizing director for Fast Food Forward, a group dedicated to increasing wages and benefits for fast-food workers. Fells added: More...

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