The Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) is a labor union front group disguised as a restaurant industry employment center and watchdog. ROC’s tactics have been compared to mob-style shakedowns; often employing intimidation and outright extortion in an effort to force restaurants into submission. Continue reading →
Jun 12, 2013
ROC’s Fight Against Restaurant Workers’ Paychecks
ROC often boasts about lobbying for higher wages (though it reports to the IRS that it “does not lobby”), but now this labor union front group is expressing support for the elimination of tips for restaurant workers. In the words … Continue reading
Jun 6, 2013
IRS Prohibits Protests, But Permits ROC’s Shakedowns of Businesses
The IRS remains under fire for the alleged targeting of conservative groups, but perhaps the government agency should also be scrutinized for the groups that it has neglected to investigate. While the IRS was allegedly preventing groups from protesting the … Continue reading
Jun 3, 2013
Embarrassed By Its Own Hypocrisy, ROC Finally Ponies Up Cash For Interns
Heard about the epidemic of part-time, labor-intensive jobs that don’t pay well and where there’s no room to move up? We have, too—in job postings from the same group that complains about the employment practices in the restaurant industry. The … Continue reading
May 21, 2013
Memo to Congress: ROC Should Be Investigated Alongside IRS
Today, ROC Exposed reached out to Hill staffers of the committees and Congressmen who are currently investigating the IRS. In the memo, we explain how the government entity should have spent less time targeting conservative groups, and more time investigating … Continue reading
May 14, 2013
Arrested: Former ROC Coordinator
ROC is no stranger to skirting the law. It avoids labor law by operating as a “worker center,” failed to report its lobbying activities to the IRS, and has been sued by its employees for failing to pay them the … Continue reading
