Fast Food Workers Go On Strike For Higher Pay From The Business Men

DEMAND for labor to build up for WWII...which left the US the lone industrial power... caused that "boom" (bubble)

as a trained chimpanzee can manage the tasks, demand for hamburger flippers and change makers will ALWAYS be easily filled.

Supply and demand. It applies to labor, too

 

They have no shortage of illegals they could hire who'd be willing to work for $3 per hour so fat chance of them getting anywhere with this charade.

 

Ok now read post #18.

 

Yes, I know what "rights" are.

Ok, I answered your question.

Now, what rights are being violated?

 

I never said any rights were being violated; only that people should have rights in the work place such as the right to work in a safe environment, the right to bargain collectively, the right to be discharged only for cause, etc.

 

Well I agree , but what was the point of bringing that up pertaining to the OP ? Maybe I got the wrong idea due to the context .

 

No, that did NOT "put this salary increase into "perspective""!

What puts it into TRUE perspective is learning that Mcdonald's serves 68 MILLION PEOPLE PER DAY!

Using YOUR percentages of meals in the USA, we get a figure of 12.8 BILLION meals served annually in the USA. Assuming McDonald's DOUBLED salaries for a cost of ANOTHER $2 Billion per year, we discover that Mcdonald's would have to charge an additional:

FIFTEEN CENTS PER MEAL!

Ohh, Blessed and Great Romney/Republicans, SAVE US from these extravagant costs threatened by the Liberals!!!

Have Righties NO mathematical perception AT ALL!?? A small, pathetically-paid crew at a Mcdonald's serves MANY THOUSANDS of meals per shift! Their pathetic wages add a trivial cost to what customers pay. Just like the sub-legal wages paid farm workers adds a FEW PENNIES to the cost of a $2.50 pound of tomatoes!

The brainwashing propaganda by corporations that "Labor is the main cost of doing business" for these kinds of mass-production businesses is ABSURD! That may be true for an high tech aerospace engineering company, It is NOT true for a McDonalds franchise, not matter how much sobbing and moaning the corporate owners make as they spend the lion's share of the business's money on themselves ( most of it BEFORE the income taxable "profits" are calculated! "Net profit" is a joke!)

 

Remember , McDonald's is one of thousands that have min wage employees . When you add the increases together , you are asking for billions and billions to be instantly generated and sustained for the wages . Not to mention , most companies don't enjoy the same margins as McDonald's . That 15 cent increase per unit could destroy many companies .

 

I would shut the stores that went on strike down and move them elsewhere.

 

Dave, do ya know what a franchise is and does?

 

There is still the fact that nobody deserves to make a profit just because he invested in a business.

We long ago outlawed slavery in this country. It is not in the best interest of America or the human race to allow capitalists to conspire to steal labor by paying less than a living wage, so that the working class has to accept working at a loss or starving rapidly.

Of course, we do have the option, when it comes to that point, of killing and eating the rich to survive.

 

True, but they wouldn't do it if they couldn't.

No one is being forced to work for anyone, that was done away with in the 1860's. If Liberal Democrats didn't support stealing labor by paying less than a living wage, they would seal the border and make sure those would work for such wages wouldn't get in, but they don't.

Your chances of that happening are very slim. The rich can afford to hire experienced mercenaries to slaughter anyone who tries. But, it would cut down on the poor population.

 

I get coffee from the same McDonalds several times a week for the past ten plus years. The same people are there today who were there then so at least this particular restaurant must be treating the employees pretty well. The people are generally polite and the service excellent.

 

Do they speak English?

 

Yes indeed. I am lucky to live in an area that has not yet been invaded.

 

You are indeed lucky. In So Cal, if you don't speak a foreign language, the chances of your order being correct are slim to none.

 

I have friends out there who wouldn't live there if not for the business they are in.

 

Only entitlement minded leftists and their "championed" useful idiot "victims" believe (have been conditioned to believe) they "deserve" things. Investors know there are risks involved with capitalizing an enterprise.

Modern "slavery", as you call it, is self inflicted. NO ONE one forced Sally Shoe Sales Clerk to limit herself to a life of entry level employment. In fact, it is those legions who limit their value to such markets who stagnate entry level wages. Supply and demand. I can walk into any 10th grade classroom, pick 10 random kids, and train them to cook a hamburger, run a cash register, or pull a box of shoes off a shelf.

When kids stop 'dropping out, tuning in, and turning on', entry level labor markets will experience scarcity, and wages will rise accordingly....and not before. (enter the progressive left's public "education" system...where "fairness" and "social justice" conditioning trumps preparation for the real world)

Just for (*)(*)(*)(*)s and giggles, what's your stance on "amnesty"? (not that you'll make the connection)

ye old extortion argument...."if central planners don't facilitate the "sharing" of other "lucky" people's labor and money, they'll rise up and kill you"....("oh....and by the way, we want your guns" ).

Bring it, son.

ah, that's right....state collectivist progressives cower behind politicians....sending them to the front lines to steal for them.

next.

 

Those are the people who are striking, during the New York Hotel strike it was mostly Mexican's protesting.

The liberals are giving rights to illegal immigrants, and they are protesting for higher wages lol.

 

... but the most tragic and unacceptable thing about it all, is that the "poor" people of Detroit are being denied their daily doses of burgers and fries. What good is a welfare card if they can't use it to enjoy fast food? "Poor" people are America's treasure; they have busy schedules and don't have time to cook and wash dishes.

Our Obama must intervene immediately to rectify this unspeakable and intolerable situation. He must give fast food workers what they want.

 

Fire them. Then prepare to have to arrest many of them when they vandalize their ex-employers, cause liberal parasites will most certainly cause damage.

 

In other news, countless pimply faced high school kids now have plenty of options for summer jobs.

These jobs are always high turnover. Do these idiots really think they're irreplaceable? Let 'em walk. They're the ones who will end up unemployed. The burger joints will be fine.

 

Translation of Thread Title: " Fast Food Workers Willfully Join the Unemployed...in DETROIT, no Less!"

 

It also shows how bad our economy is under 0bama. These jobs are entry level, no skill jobs for 15 year olds cutting their teeth, a spouse taking a part time job while the kids are in school, and college kids working their way thru school. but in this 0bama economy, these burger flipper jobs are all people can find, and they can't raise a family on them. People are desperate, and looking at 0bama's priorities, they will be increasingly more desperate over the next three and a half years..

 

That automation machine is very slow, there have already been several violent encounters at Macdonald's because the service was poor.

Raising wages for the poor will also raise wages for those who are college educated, so the Middle class should get in this fight as well.