an investigation for the new york times says lobbying effort to keep their $15 a year for mandatory food handling course annexed by a company called serve safe. so safe is owned by the national restaurant association. to some of the money from that chorus to lobby against raising the minimum wage. so far, the national 3.6 million workers. that s according to the report. the statement to the new york times, the president of the association said, quote, the associations advocacy work keeps restaurants opening and keeps workers employed, and finds pathways for work or opportunity that keeps communities healthy. president of one fairway ridge joins us now. david, walk us through your reporting and what happened, and how is the national restaurant association been able to do this? well, we found this was something that has been going
well. the one we wrote about is something called food handler training and it s basic training like you should bathe every day, and that is required in five states, and they all take it and paid $15 to a company called serve safe. what they don t know is where that money goes? it s part of a national restaurant association, and it takes the worker s money and uses that money to lobby against the worker s interest, to keep the wages low. what has the reaction been to your findings? this is extraordinary stuff. the money that should be there is being used to lobby against them. i was stunned. given this arrangement has been around for ten years, i was stunned at how few people knew