Topic: Mcdonald's Employees strike for $15/hr and Unions

[pisskop]

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/29/fast-food-workersstrikein60citiesdemanding15anhour.html

Thousands of fast-food workers kicked off a day of coordinated strikes in more than 60 cities nationwide on Thursday, walking off their jobs and forming picket lines to demand salaries of $15 an hour and the ability to form unions.

More than 4 million people work at fast food restaurants in the U.S., earning an average annual wage of $18,130 in 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But in New York City, for example, fast-food workers earning the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour struggle to pay their bills in a city where the average apartment rents for $3,017.19 a month, according to real estate research firm Reis.

Fast-food restaurant employees started picketing at 6:30 a.m. Thursday in front of a McDonald’s on 5th Avenue in midtown Manhattan, brandishing signs and chanting for better pay and benefits.

Bwahahahahahahah!  Ill tell them what, pretty lucky they just don't get replaced.  I know NY is full of people willing to work for less than $15/hr.  And its not like one needs a BA to operate a fry machine (yet).

[Glock32]

Imagine if they put that energy and ambition into developing some skills that employers are willing to pay more than $7.25 an hour for.  I've always operated under the assumption that my best avenue to a pay raise can be found in the Want Ads.

[Weisshaupt]

They got to get the Fast Food union done before the Mexicans come across the border after amnesty and take their jobs for $5 an hour

If I ever owned a Business and my employees wanted a Union I would tell them flat out that 1) They don't provide $15 of value to the business in the jobs they are doing 2) If they succeed, the franchise is closing and you all loose your jobs 3) if they don't like it, and think they are worth more, to go find the employer who thinks so too and who willingly will pay them that,  and  stop trying to extort more like a mafia.

[IronDioPriest]

Fire them all, now, for failing to show up for their assigned shifts. Replace them within a day.

[Glock32]

See this also demonstrates the liberal/collectivist mentality that everything is a static entity. The economy is a fixed figure to them, so going from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour in their minds means they've just more than doubled their purchasing power. In reality of course, it merely shifts everything else in the economy up by a more or less equivalent magnitude so that doubled wage is immediately met by a doubled rent, a doubled bus fare, what have you. I mean, who is going to pay $10 for a hamburger at McDonald's?

The only thing these minimum wage demands accomplish is pricing out people at the very bottom rung of the career ladder, and that's precisely the people who these types of jobs are meant for anyway. Sorry, but jockeying a register at McDonald's isn't supposed to be a job for someone in their peak earning years. It's for young people, or senior citizens looking to bring in some extra cash. If you're 30 years old and working a minimum wage fast food job as your day job, don't blame "society" for it.

[IronDioPriest]

But remember Glock, Obama's willing servant Ashton Kutcher has had praise heaped upon him for driving home the conservative notion that "no job was ever beneath me."

Maybe we're supposed to start thinking of McDonald's as a career path.

[LadyVirginia]

they just want and they don't care where it comes from--

[Pandora]

they just want and they don't care where it comes from--

Heard a clip on the radio today and that's exactly what was said; "we want .... ".

Instinctive response is "how does it feel to want?"

I'd fire 'em all and let the Fed Department of Whatever do it's stuff.

[Predator Don]

Striking employee: We want to be paid 15.00 hour!

Owner: How bout I biggie size your lunch?

[pisskop]

Why, they already get discounts!

[trapeze]

We are living in a time when there are more than a few people who are caught up in a mass delusion. Their view of the world is distorted in many ways. This notion, that everyone is somehow entitled to a "living wage" (whatever that is) for showing up and doing menial labor is crazy. But to these people it makes sense. Because they are nuts.

One of the first things that I learned in the work world was, "We aren't here to have a job, we're here to get a job done." I heard a lot of sayings like those in my youth but that is the one that I seem to remember out of all of them. I don't suppose that sentiment is tossed around very much theses days.

[AlanS]

"We aren't here to have a job, we're here to get a job done."

And hopefully have another job to do tomorrow.

[Libertas]

Thanks for walking out on me, now, you are free to pursue your $15/hr job elsewhere, what sh*t you have here is out on the curb, have a nice life.

Oh, and meet the replacements - RoboFlipper!