feh...Duhhhhh.is CEO position next on the extortion list
/johnny
“Research also shows that fast food companies haven’t shared their profits equally among their workers. “
You mean they’re supposed to?
1. Illegal immigrants have pushed teens out of many entry level jobs like this. These ‘mothers and fathers’ referred to in the article are often illegal immigrants in many parts of the country.
2. Fast food burger-making bots are already being made. http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/11/burger_making_r.php Raise the wage just $2 and it will suddenly make far more sense to just go ahead and replace the people with the bot.
Nope, it wasn't.
They look more and more like Dre Finley, who earns $8.78 an hour at Arby's in Tampa, Fla. He is 24, has a five-year-old daughter and another child on the way.
Anybody else seeing a pattern here?
Finley also holds an associates degree from a community college.
In what? An AA in Liberal Arts or Communications in worthless. Far better to learn a trade.
Tanika Smith, a 25-year-old with a college degree, says her $8.75 hourly wage has barely budged since she started seven years ago at a McDonald's in Chicago. "I never imagined working at a fast food place with a B.A. I imagined I'd be working downtown at a law firm making major bucks," says Smith, who hopes to earn a master's degree and aspires to be a judge.
feh...This is exactly where Obama wants them.
If they are hard-working and prosperous and paying their own bills and living a fine Middle-Class life, they are of no use to the Progressives
If older staff members are hard workers at Mickey D’s they will be moved to management in a VERY short time that IS the TRUTH of the matter!!!
And WHO was president during this shocking decline of quality of jobs? And HOW does a shocking decline in quality of jobs alter the market dynamics affecting the jobs in question? And how is it possible to NOT consider CNN a collection of excuse making damnable idiots?
Anybody remember when Pelosi accused Bush of only creating “McJobs” ?
In the era of Baraq, fast food it the new “breadwinner job”.
#puke
Dre Finley, 24, has a college degree and works at Arby’s for $8.78 an hour. He has a 5-year-old daughter and another baby coming soon.
Dre Finley, 24, works 40 hours a week at Arby’s on Fletcher Avenue, and between 10-12 hours a week across the street at McDonald’s. He says if people didn’t believe that the fast-food workers were serious about getting a raise, they know now (Finley was later one of approximately 100 protesters who were arrested after this interview took place).
“I think it’s so serious, they shut down one of their facilities today,” Finley told CL by phone from Oak Brook early this afternoon. “They were supposed to have a big meeting going on and I think they were afraid and they shut that down.”
Finley has been working at McDonalds for just the past month, where he makes $8.00 an hour. He’s been working a couple of years now at Arby’s, where he makes $8.25. He’s the father of a five-year-old girl and is wife is now pregnant with their second child. This was the third month in a row he was late on his rent payment.
When asked if the fast-food workers demand for a living wage of $15.00 is realistic — particularly when Democrats are calling for the minimum wage to only to go $10.10 an hour, Finley said he believes it is, considering how large a corporation McDonalds is. But he said personally, he’d be quite content to make at least $10 or $11 an hour. “I would settle for that,” he says.
I don't see anyone who looks like they are starving!
Some of those arrested were uniform-wearing McDonald's employees who had come for the protest from 33 U.S. cities. Also arrested was Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, according to the union. Police could not immediately confirm that. The union is the financial and logistical backer for Fast Food Forward, the group organizing the protests.
Dre Finley, Tampa, Florida
Electronic voice: “Welcome to Burger Boss! Please select your menu choices from the touch screen of this kiosk. I will prepare your order quickly and hygenically. Thank you for your patronage!”
Blame the Obama economy. The place where I work has been cutting hours and positions, and restructuring the remaining positions to bring management level jobs down to entry level wages. I also see people walking in all the time leaving resumes showing their college and beyond education seeking basic entry level cashier work. This is the kind of thing that is happening all over the place. There may be some people who are just screw ups with a degree, but there are too many well educated and experienced people out there struggling to get by working jobs for which they are ridiculously overqualified.
these fast food employees are so stupid they think the Corporations OWN these restaurants! They have no idea about how the business works.
So what does that mean for fast food places like McDonalds?
Well, there's the rub - because what we refer to as the minimum wage in Australia is in fact the minimum adult wage.
And for these purposes, 'adult' kicks in at age 21. People under the age of 21 are entitled to a lower minimum depending on their age. Sixteen year olds are entitled to just under half the minimum wage, twenty year olds get close to the minimum - but the point is, the younger you are, the cheaper you are.
Which places like McDonald's hire as few adults as possible (except, of course, in those managerial roles etc, that have real responsibility - and which also pay more than minimum wage).
The point is, yes, maybe in America, there are a lot of adults earning a 'low' minimum wage - but it's better to be earning that than being unemployed and earning nothing at all - which would be their probable fate if they lived in Australia, where the jobs they are doing simply aren't available to adults at all.