Back of the house.WHEN IT'S ALWAYS a Latino male who busses your table and sweeps the floor and a white male who takes your order--and your tips--is it merely coincidental co·in·ci·den·tal adj. 1. Occurring as or resulting from coincidence. 2. Happening or existing at the same time. co·in ? The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of spent the last two years canvassing restaurants, setting up focus groups and sending 43 matched pairs into restaurants. The results are educational, if not surprising. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The group found that employers use a vague but clearly racialized set of criteria to hire an overwhelmingly male and disproportionately dis·pro·por·tion·ate adj. Out of proportion, as in size, shape, or amount. dis  pro·por white staff for the most lucrative "front of the house" jobs,
while people of color Noun 1. people of color - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important are sent to the "back of the house." In the study, employers expressed little interest in hiring whites as runners and bussers because they are not as "willing" as Latinos to stay at the same low-wage job. Armed with this initial data, the group is now planning to organize restaurant workers in cities across the country to fight for equitable equitable adj. 1) just, based on fairness and not legal technicalities. 2) refers to positive remedies (orders to do something, not money damages) employed by the courts to solve disputes or give relief. (See: equity) EQUITABLE. wages and hiring practices. For more information, go to www.rocny.org. |
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