Fast-food Workers Across The Nation Go On Strike, Demand $15 An Hour

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Max E.

These people are soon going to find out just how disposable they are, what kind fo loser looks at mcdonalds as a career choice?

FAST-FOOD WORKERS ACROSS THE NATION GO ON STRIKE, DEMAND $15 AN HOUR
Aug. 29, 2013 11:49am Becket Adams
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NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Fast-food protests are under way in at least 50 cities including New York, Chicago and Detroit, with organizers expecting the biggest national walkouts yet in a demand for higher wages.

Fast Food Workers Launch Nationwide Strike, Demand $15 an Hour
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Protesters are demanding that their wages be raised to at least $15 an hour.

Similar protests organized by unions and “community groups” in cities over the past several months have brought a decent amount media attention to a staple of the fast-food industry — the so-called “McJobs” people complain don’t pay well enough.

But it’s not clear what impact, if any, the protests will have on business.

In New York, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined hundreds of protesters in a march before flooding inside a McDonald’s near the Empire State Building on Thursday morning.

Shortly after the demonstration, however, the restaurant seemed to be operating normally and a few customers said they hadn’t heard of the movement. The same was true at a McDonald’s a few blocks away.

Here’s footage from a protest in Chicago:

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The lack of awareness among some illustrates the challenge workers face. For instance, protesting fast-food workers, who are demanding $15 an hour, represent a tiny fraction of the industry. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, which works out to about $15,000 a year for full-time employees.

True, the movement has the support of the White House and economists like Paul Krugman. But not even President Barack Obama is asking for $15 an hour (at most he has requested that the federal minimum wage be raised to $9 an hour).

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents more than 2 million works in health care, janitorial and other industries, has been providing financial support and training for local organizers around the country.

Thursday’s protests follow a series of strikes that began last November in New York City. The biggest effort so far was over the summer when about 2,200 of the country’s millions of fast-food workers staged a one-day strike in seven cities.

Ryan Carter, a 29-year-old who was walking out of the McDonald’s where workers demonstrated on Thursday, said he “absolutely” supported workers demand for higher wages.

“They work harder than the billionaires in this city,” he said. But Carter, who was holding a cup of the chain’s coffee he bought for $1, said he didn’t plan to stop his regular trips to McDonald’s.

McDonald’s Corp. and Burger King Worldwide Inc. say they don’t make decisions about pay for the independent franchisees that operate the majority of their U.S. restaurants. Wendy’s and Yum Brands Inc., which owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, did not respond to requests for comment.

Here’s footage of a protest in St. Louis:


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Lots of illegals waiting to take those jobs at min wage...or less.
 
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Maybe they considered roofing but didn't want to work on a hot roof or have to live in a camper. :D
 
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LOL, almost choked on my drink laughing when i read this :D
 
As we have been telling the leftists their programs of spend and tax combined with Feds monetization of the debt have destroyed the value of the wages and savings of those who work for a living. Particularly those who work in the private sector.


Its a multi faceted private sector torture.

1. those getting the govt handouts are now competing for the rentals, the houses and the goods with those who do nothing but get govt money. Getting your first job or tow does not give you an advantage over those who sit home. You need a phone... you can work for it or you can get it for fee and sit home. You need a home... you can work for it or you can compete with those who get section 8 money. You need a non slum rental... guess what you now have to compete with those on handouts.

You want to buy food at the store... guess what those goods that only workers could afford... now everyone can buy them with their handout card.

Plus, they don't even have to waste their time once a week picking up their checks.

2. there has been massive inflation on the goods workers spend a large percentage of their disposable income on.... food, energy, rent, insurance.

Why?

Too big to fail, handouts, monetization, obamacare.
 
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As we have been telling the leftists their programs of spend and tax combined with Feds monetization of the debt have destroyed the value of the wages and savings of those who work for a living earn money in the private sector.

Basically the program of inflation has stolen the standard of living from the middle class and given it those who take handouts from the govt, those who work for the govt and the cronies who own the companies which buy the politicians.

Its a multi faceted private sector torture.

1. those getting the govt handouts are now competing for the rentals the houses and the goods those who work for a living used to get more cheaply.

2. there has been massive inflation on the goods those working spend a lot of their budget on... The good they compete with the rest of the world for.

Energy and food.
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Well stated, despite rectum's absurd claims of non existent inflation.
 
The thing that lefties dont seem to understand is that if we were to raise wages to 15$ an hour inflation would simply knock that increase out, rent, food, clothing, and everything else in the service sector would cost twice as much, thus eliminating the benefit of the increase, its just a stupid inflationary plan so liberals can pat themselves on the back and talk about "what good guys" they all are.

Quote from jem:

As we have been telling the leftists their programs of spend and tax combined with Feds monetization of the debt have destroyed the value of the wages and savings of those who work for a living earn money in the private sector.

Basically the program of inflation has stolen the standard of living from the middle class and given it those who take handouts from the govt, those who work for the govt and the cronies who own the companies which buy the politicians.

Its a multi faceted private sector torture.

1. those getting the govt handouts are now competing for the rentals the houses and the goods those who work for a living used to get more cheaply.

2. there has been massive inflation on the goods those working spend a lot of their budget on... The good they compete with the rest of the world for.

Energy and food.
More...
 
Quote from Max E. Pad:

The thing that lefties dont seem to understand is that if we were to raise wages to 15$ an hour inflation would simply knock that increase out, rent, food, clothing, and everything else in the service sector would cost twice as much, thus eliminating the benefit of the increase, its just a stupid inflationary plan so liberals can pat themselves on the back and talk about "what good guys" they all are.
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Indeed.

We covered this exact topic a few months back. I thought the stupidity of this "fight for fair wages" died an ignominius death; but as we've seen with all these ridiculous leftist meme's, it just reaches a new level of absurdity.

Seriously, I hope they are all replaced with bots.
 
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And bots don't spit on the hamburgers they make either.

Years ago I worked with a guy who admitted to routinely putting dead fly's on the pickle of the hamburgers he made when he was younger.
 
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