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'Fight For $15' Minimum Wage, McDonald's Unveils Job-Replacing Self-Service Kiosks Nationwide
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| NOV 29, 2016 @ 01:37 PM
| Ed Rensi
Posted on 12/01/2016 5:42:58 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
As the labor union-backed Fight for $15 begins yet another nationwide strike on November 29, I have a simple message for the protest organizers and the reporters covering them: I told you so.
It brings me no joy to write these words. The push for a $15 starter wage has negatively impacted the career prospects of employees who were just getting started in the workforce while extinguishing the businesses that employed them. I wish it were not so. But its important to document these consequences, lest policymakers elsewhere decide that the $15 movement is worth embracing.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: fastfood; jobs
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:45:14 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(Clinton's supporters crying is the best thing ever..)
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
It is cheaper to build a robot than to send a child to school for 12 years to run a cash register that makes the change for you!
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
There was a guy on FB that wrote regarding the Soros protestors, but it fits here:"Trump isn't even president yet and already people are getting fifteen dollars and hour."
MickyD's is still a fast food leader as long as I can get a QPer for less than $4 bucks.
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:48:56 PM PST
by
Karliner
(Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
To: Karliner
I remember when a qtr pounder was .90 cents.
I’m getting old.
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:51:26 PM PST
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Robots triggering mass self-deportation? WHO KNEW?
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:52:45 PM PST
by
Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
((Some of you characterized my FReep name as 'paranoid' a few years back.. Care to apologize now?))
To: unixfox
Hehehehe.... how about those ads at Christmas — “50 cent gift certificates”. My husband and I laugh at that. Check out YouTube for a blast from the past.
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:52:53 PM PST
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is public enemy #1)
To: Herman Ball
A robot will build a better burger, faster. And it won’t have an attitude.
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:53:52 PM PST
by
Artemis Webb
(Ted Kennedy burns in hell.)
To: All
These “$15 an hour” protestors are protesting themselves out of jobs....
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:55:20 PM PST
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: Karliner
You couldn't pay me to eat McDonald's food now. I even stopped drinking the coffee. Ever since they got rid of the french fries cooked in a mixture of beef tallow and cottonseed oil (and they immersed the fries in cold water before frying them) and added unnecessary crap like salads, McVeggie burgers, and such - I passed.
McDonald's needs to go back to their roots.
To: All
Have the protestors ask the air traffic controllers in the ‘80’s how well their walkout worked with Reagan....
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:57:14 PM PST
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: Artemis Webb
“A robot will build a better burger, faster. And it wont have an attitude.”
Or spit in it
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:59:10 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(PIAPS for Prison 2016)
To: unixfox
Me too. I used to stop at White Castle after school for an 8 cent slider.
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posted on
12/01/2016 5:59:15 PM PST
by
granite
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left - Ecc 10:2)
To: Artemis Webb
Nor will it spit in your shake if you’re wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat....
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:02:07 PM PST
by
moonhawk
(My Basket of Deplorable is Irredeemably mired in the Swamp of Crazy.)
To: Fai Mao
Beat me by 17 seconds... :-)
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:02:54 PM PST
by
moonhawk
(My Basket of Deplorable is Irredeemably mired in the Swamp of Crazy.)
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:04:05 PM PST
by
knarf
To: Artemis Webb
Or spit in it (I’m always late to the party.. LOL)
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:04:49 PM PST
by
Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
((Some of you characterized my FReep name as 'paranoid' a few years back.. Care to apologize now?))
To: Artemis Webb
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:11:53 PM PST
by
coydog
(Time to feed the pigs!)
To: Artemis Webb
“A robot will build a better burger, faster. And it wont have an attitude.”
And it won’t call you a pig, spit in your food and say it doesn’t serve cops.
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:12:16 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Election 2016 - Best election ever.)
To: Artemis Webb
A robot will build a better burger, faster. And it wont have an attitude. And it won't spit on the burger or put mustard in your drink.
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posted on
12/01/2016 6:16:06 PM PST
by
ProudFossil
(" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
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