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Civil disobedience expected in fast-food pay fight
Associated Press ^ | Sep 1, 2014 5:55 PM EDT | Candice Choi

Posted on 09/01/2014 3:14:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai

McDonald’s, Wendy’s and other fast-food restaurants are expected to be targeted with acts of civil disobedience that could lead to arrests Thursday as labor organizers escalate their campaign to unionize the industry’s workers.

Kendall Fells, an organizing director for Fast Food Forward, said in an interview that workers in a couple of dozen cities were trained to peacefully engage in civil disobedience ahead of this week’s planned protests.

Fells declined to say what exactly is in store for the protests in around 150 U.S. cities. But workers involved in the movement recently cited sit-ins as an example of strategies they could use to intensify their push for higher pay and unionization. Past protests have targeted a couple of restaurants in each city. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: civildisobedience; communism; liberalagenda; mcdonalds; minimumwage; unions; unionthugs; wendys
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To: Kit cat

Wait till they see the TAX DEDUCTIONS, AND UNION DUES taken from their NEW found wages they won’t even SEE the increase!!!!!! FOOLS all of them!!!!!

You got that right Kit cat....but then they aren’t really good at checking those things out. However let them find it out....I’ll cook at home.


81 posted on 09/01/2014 6:22:06 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
you should see the page, where the Col. famous secret recipe is printed..
it's blank. There's @ least 195 recipes.
82 posted on 09/01/2014 6:27:05 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: CatherineofAragon
I agree....and though I do cook I'm not very good at it...don't have the patience nor the “natural” understanding of spices etc. so many seem to have. And then you have to learn what works and doesn't...etc.etc.

I remember a woman cooked her steak in some sort of wine and it was fabulous!....so I added Mogan David wine, (given to me after a Jewish Wedding), to a roast beef one night...it was awful!!!!! Terrible tasting I about gagged! Ruined the meat entirely.. LOL!

83 posted on 09/01/2014 6:28:00 PM PDT by caww
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To: elcid1970
(iirc) 2 burger/coke/fries, under 2.00US$ in '72. 🍔🍔🍵🍟
84 posted on 09/01/2014 6:33:20 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Blank!... Guess he’s not going to give that away! I’d be overwhelmed with that many recipes. .....I’m doing good if I check one on line!


85 posted on 09/01/2014 6:33:29 PM PDT by caww
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To: Olog-hai

since “Occupy(tm) [your city here]” turned out to be such a bust they are trying a new way to rabble-rouse


86 posted on 09/01/2014 6:41:06 PM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: caww
of course; (i think :) it was meant as an "inside" joke. The buffet table
looked expensive..but goooood..I'll be there for the Sunday Buffet.
87 posted on 09/01/2014 6:47:39 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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I think there’s a conspiracy going on at my house. My wife and two teen agers agree that I make the best burgers and fries ever, never mind that my wife makes them the exact same way that I do. They all want me to make the burgers and fries every time we have them.


88 posted on 09/01/2014 6:49:06 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.)
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To: Graybeard58

“. They all want me to make the burgers and fries every time we have them.”


Sounds to me like you have an extraordinarily clever wife.

:-)

.


89 posted on 09/01/2014 6:52:45 PM PDT by Mears
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To: caww; All
the recipes; don't seem that complicated, vast majority
are fairly simple/one page/lot of spices & herbs

90 posted on 09/01/2014 6:52:57 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: Olog-hai
At one point in my life during the early 1980's recession getting a job at a Mickey D's would have been great even at minimum wage. Hey it would have been a job and income I didn't have. I needed work. I've dug graves with pick and shovel for minimum wage before. If a person wants more pay in a decent economy then education & training will likely produce it. It doesn't have to be college. Learn marketable skills. Fast food and stock clerks, cashiers, etc is entry or minimum wage jobs & with a few exceptions always has been.

The worker in charge of making French Fries which are never hot or ready on time for the rest of the orders is likely clueless as to what they are hired for wonders why they aren't the district manager. That's one of the reasons why they aren't in higher food services related paying jobs.

91 posted on 09/01/2014 7:05:17 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Olog-hai
At one point in my life during the early 1980's recession getting a job at a Mickey D's would have been great even at minimum wage. Hey it would have been a job and income I didn't have. I needed work. I've dug graves with pick and shovel for minimum wage before. If a person wants more pay in a decent economy then education & training will likely produce it. It doesn't have to be college. Learn marketable skills. Fast food and stock clerks, cashiers, etc is entry or minimum wage jobs & with a few exceptions always has been.

The worker in charge of making French Fries which are never hot or ready on time for the rest of the orders is likely clueless as to what they are hired for wonders why they aren't the district manager. That's one of the reasons why they aren't in higher food services related paying jobs.

92 posted on 09/01/2014 7:05:19 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Olog-hai

Ladies, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. But you already knew that...right?


93 posted on 09/01/2014 7:12:07 PM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: Olog-hai

4 letters explain this-—SEIU. and they will lose their jobs
permanently.


94 posted on 09/01/2014 7:16:04 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Timber Rattler

exactly

what firm has created these machines .
.
A great investment because this option will explode.


95 posted on 09/01/2014 7:24:08 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: Olog-hai

For the protestors I have 1 word (or 2, I can’t remember how they spelled it) BLOCKBUSTER. Remember parting 4 bucks to rent a movie and all the helpers at the store? Now 1 guy fills the redbox and the movie only cost a little over $1.

Like technology coming to a fastfood restaurant near you.


96 posted on 09/01/2014 7:33:16 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: dragnet2

Well, one is owned by an Iranian/American— the Steak & Shake. They have real steakburgers (OK it’s chuck steak) and a great $4 menus (with no drinks— bring your water or cheapo soda in a can). And it is a quality burger that tastes great.
Clean restaurants in general. And. real.milk.shakes.

Choice is clear, and it isn’t as fast food, too.

That and Chik filet.


97 posted on 09/01/2014 7:42:10 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Kit cat

The people really behind all this just “protested” at the Jackson Hole, WY annual meeting of the Federal Reserve. Janet Yellen met with these little red diaper doper babies. Most of whom are little a-wipe lawyers and people from Occupy. It is all run by this front commie outfit... for the SEIU.

This is a joke played on these dumbos for the greater skim off of the democraps, aka the front org. for the CPUSA.
We’ve gone to real labor reform to organizing the one most price sensitive industry in the country— fast food. The losers— the workers. Cause the franchises will just close down and sell off their real estate.


98 posted on 09/01/2014 7:46:55 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

The foreigners, Muslims and assorted whatever from Ustinkistan are coming in with wheel barrels full of cash.

They’ve been buying up all the greedymarts, hotel chains, and McWhopper franchises for years.

These guys wouldn’t know a labor law from a cowflop shake and could care less anyway...


99 posted on 09/01/2014 7:53:41 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

True. But Steak and Shake is not bad. Their quality is pretty darn good for the times. Nothing like the original Indiana American owned company.

I see your point. This dude is a so called “venture” investor who took over from the BOD of Steak and Shake. He is a Catholic Iranian/American, so there is that.

And not Valerie Jarrett, so far. Like that ustinkistan.


100 posted on 09/01/2014 8:05:14 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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