Support the Fast Food Workers Strike!

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Howey

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This week fast food workers around the nation are striking to make notice of the horrible pay they receive.

Fast food workers across the country are walking off their jobs this week in protest of what they describe as low wages and unfair labor practices.

The employees, in New York, Chicago, Detroit and other cities, are calling for a $15 per hour wage as well as the right to unionize without fear of retaliation. The campaign launched Monday in New York City, and has been aided by Fast Food Forward, a New York City-based advocacy group of fast food workers:

A crowd of hundreds of workers stretching an entire city block crowded outside a Union Square McDonald's Monday afternoon, holding signs amid chants of "we can't survive on $7.25" and "hey hey, ho ho, poverty wage has got to go."
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Nobody can survive on $7.25 an hour and contrary to misguided belief of some idiots on here, the average age of the fast food worker is 29 and a half years. In other words, they're not just snot-nosed high schoolers anymore. They're increasingly single working moms, the elderly and displaced workers.

Over the past decade, the average age of a fast food worker in the United States has surged higher, mainly because many older workers are not able to find work elsewhere. Fast food positions don't pay well, but many people just aren't able to find work anywhere else.
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We need to increase the minimum wage. No, we don't need to increase it, we need to double it.

Here's an incredible fact:

If the salary of every McDonald's minimum wage employee - and the CEO - was doubled, yes doubled, the effect on the price of a Big Mac would be a whopping 68 cents.

I don't eat fast food crap but to know that by paying 68 cents more for a Big Mac would ensure a living wage for that single mom with kids or elderly woman off food stamps it would be worth it.
 
Howey said:
I don't eat fast food crap but to know that by paying 68 cents more for a Big Mac would ensure a living wage for that single mom with kids or elderly woman off food stamps it would be worth it.
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you see, you're missing out on an opportunity to create change......what you should be doing is going on a petition campaign promising McDonalds you will buy food from them at least three times a week if they pay their employees $15 an hour.....get enough people to sign up and I can guarantee McD will act.....
 
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Here is a thought, do not try to support a wife and kids on a minimum wage job, you cannot afford to breed on those wages. Those jobs are low wage, because any idiot could do them. If you want a high paying job, do not drop out of school, put down the crack pipe, stop getting pregnant at 14, and for God's sake pull up your pants.
 
LMAO... because burger flippers should make $15 an hour? No skills, yet we should pay them $15 an hour?

The average age is up, but break that down for us... is it the young and the very old? Or are there a bunch of thirty somethings working at McDonalds now? Link us up to the data. Your link did not do so, it simply linked to the Census bureau.

No way in hell should we be paying unskilled labor $15. You do that and what will the low skilled, semi skilled and skilled labor demand?

The continuing chant that all jobs should be able to provide this 'living wage' is ridiculous.
 
Howey said:
This week fast food workers around the nation are striking to make notice of the horrible pay they receive.



Nobody can survive on $7.25 an hour and contrary to misguided belief of some idiots on here, the average age of the fast food worker is 29 and a half years. In other words, they're not just snot-nosed high schoolers anymore. They're increasingly single working moms, the elderly and displaced workers.



We need to increase the minimum wage. No, we don't need to increase it, we need to double it.

Here's an incredible fact:

If the salary of every McDonald's minimum wage employee - and the CEO - was doubled, yes doubled, the effect on the price of a Big Mac would be a whopping 68 cents.

I don't eat fast food crap but to know that by paying 68 cents more for a Big Mac would ensure a living wage for that single mom with kids or elderly woman off food stamps it would be worth it.
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Totally agree.
 
Superfreak said:
LMAO... because burger flippers should make $15 an hour? No skills, yet we should pay them $15 an hour?

The average age is up, but break that down for us... is it the young and the very old? Or are there a bunch of thirty somethings working at McDonalds now? Link us up to the data. Your link did not do so, it simply linked to the Census bureau.

No way in hell should we be paying unskilled labor $15. You do that and what will the low skilled, semi skilled and skilled labor demand?

The continuing chant that all jobs should be able to provide this 'living wage' is ridiculous.
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What kind of work do you do, SF?
 
Darla said:
How about we just do that for financial advisors?

Oh wait...
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lol... most don't make it in this industry... there is a reason. Just ask Suze Orman... though she did a phenomenal job of self marketing nonsense after failing at actually providing advice.

That said, why not pay them $30 per hour? Why not $50?

There is a reason unskilled labor makes what it does. Those are jobs for the unskilled workers (typically teens) to gain experience and work habits. To learn the value of the dollar. To provide incentive to actually gain skills.

You raise the minimum wage and those fast food places will simply become more automated. Bye bye jobs...
 
Superfreak said:
lol... most don't make it in this industry... there is a reason. Just ask Suze Orman... though she did a phenomenal job of self marketing nonsense after failing at actually providing advice.

That said, why not pay them $30 per hour? Why not $50?

There is a reason unskilled labor makes what it does. Those are jobs for the unskilled workers (typically teens) to gain experience and work habits. To learn the value of the dollar. To provide incentive to actually gain skills.

You raise the minimum wage and those fast food places will simply become more automated. Bye bye jobs...
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Supefreak please, do you know who you are talking to? I probably know more FA"s than YOU do. LOL They are in all my networking groups. You know how many of you superfreaks have tried to date me? And I am smarter than any of them. Sorry, all true.
 
Darla said:
Supefreak please, do you know who you are talking to? I probably know more FA"s than YOU do. LOL They are in all my networking groups. You know how many of you superfreaks have tried to date me? And I am smarter than any of them. Sorry, all true.
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You're need to improve your standards....you're not setting the bar very high. ;)
 
To show my sympathies for the fast food workers I'm going to boycott all fast food joints!!!

Of course since I never eat at them anyways that pretty much makes me an asshole, doesn't it?
 
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