Code:Fast-food restaurant workers across the US are staging a 24-hour strike in protest against low wages.
Walkouts were reported in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, and also Detroit, Michigan; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Organisers hope workers in as many as 100 cities will participate in what is the latest in a series of such actions.
Unions want a $15-an-hour (£9.19) federal minimum wage. The current one, set in 2009, is $7.25 per hour.
The minimum wage in Washington State is $9.13 for 2013, the highest in the nation. $7.25 seems rather low.President Barack Obama, who has backed a Senate measure to increase the minimum to $10.10, specifically mentioned fast-food workers “who work their tails off and are still living at or barely above poverty” in an economic policy speech on Wednesday.
I would like to take that, but if I want it, I have to earn it. That is why I am improving my skills and trying to be promoted to team leader.How about $10 an hour, will you take that?
good thing the ceo’s at Mcdonalds taught you how to read and basic arithmatic…no what that was the tax payers through public schools, who are also paying for social security benifits to numerous fast food employees.I would like to take that, but if I want it, I have to earn it. That is why I am improving my skills and trying to be promoted to team leader.
No, it was not the taxpayers through the public schools. My Mom and Dad realized that the public schools in our area were terrible, and so they sacrificed time and money to homeschool me instead. It paid off, I am acing my college courses. However, my parents were still forced to support a backward, inefficient, corrupt, and incompetent public school system that they did not use.good thing the ceo’s at Mcdonalds taught you how to read and basic arithmatic…no what that was the tax payers through public schools, who are also paying for social security benifits to numerous fast food employees.
would you say the majority of your co-workers were similarly blessed with parents who could afford to homeschooling? Congrats on college, where are you attending?No, it was not the taxpayers through the public schools. My Mom and Dad realized that the public schools in our area were terrible, and so they sacrificed time and money to homeschool me instead. It paid off, I am acing my college courses. However, my parents were still forced to support a backward, inefficient, corrupt, and incompetent public school system that they did not use.
Non-union workers “striking” = Quitting.How do non union workers strike? Aren’t they basically just not showing up to work? They’re lucky they don’t get fired.
To my memory it is not a liberal who first broke the unions. It was then President Regan, or have you forgot the Traffic Controller Strike in which he had them all fired for expecting better work conditions and wages?How stingy, 9.13/hr. indeed, why not 119.13/hr.; what justification is there to keep unskilled- labor in slave pay. Where is the liberal outrage over the economic rape of the untrained, untalented and mostly not to bright labors flipping our burgers?
AFAIK, McDonald’s has already said they are getting rid of the dollar menu.The AFL-CIO seems to be a bunch of strange ducks with their constant suppose for gay marriage.
Why were they called in to do this protest in these smaller areas?
There goes the dollar menu. How much business do you think these fast food places would do if everything we take for granted goes up 1 to 3 dollars?
Everything goes up and people expect maybe a slight increase(so they will no longer to able to call it the dollar menu) but what will happen to McDonalds if their food prices take a major hit because of this desire to have a $15.00 minimum wage.AFAIK, McDonald’s has already said they are getting rid of the dollar menu.