Posted on 12/05/2013 9:00:21 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Hourly wage increases advocated by labor groups could kill more than 450,000 jobs, according to a new report.
Union-backed labor groups, including Fast Food Forward and Fight for 15, are staging nationwide walk-outs and demonstrations at fast food chains across the country calling for starting wages of $15 per hour.
Their success could spell economic disaster for nearly 20 percent of the nation’s 2.5 million fast food workers, according to an analysis from the Employment Policies Institute.
“We find that roughly 460,000 jobs would be lost in the fast food industry as a consequence of a $15 minimum wage,” the EPI report found. “This is a conservative estimate because it only includes employment loss among those who hold a fast food job as their primary employment. Including those who work in the industry as a second job would increase the estimates.”
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Union wages are tied to min wage, which is why unions are always pushing for increases.
Hamburger flippers are paid what they are worth.
Most are paid more than they are worth from my experience.
It would cost more than that, because the moment one job can be automated, they pretty much all can, and quickly too.
And/or to inflation and this is an inflation causing proposal.
Fast food hamburgers can be flipped easily by machine. In fact, the entire operation from order taking to preparation to delivery of product to car window and payment could be automated.
I hope you are right, because if they are bluffing and the Leftists succeed in calling their bluff, you’re gonna see this country “fundamentally transformed” at breakneck speed.
The constant libtard refrain: “I got mine, screw you!” about us rethugs.
But, as always, their disingenuousness is exposed: Those who get the increase: “YAHA! I GOT MINE — THOSE OF YOU WHO GOT CUT, TFB!”
Those that lose their jobs: “how’s that 2nd term of obozo workin’ for ya?”
I know an engineer who was hired to work on designing an automated burger cook station in 2006. It was for one of the major chains. To my knowledge it has never been deployed. Either it never worked right or current minimum wage still makes the old way a better deal.
Union folks might study this video for a little insight.
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/how-the-amazon-warehouse-works
Jim,
There was another article ( which I thought was posted here) relating the comments of a VP at White Castle in which he stated that a change in the minimum wage of this size would cause them to close roughly half of their 400 plus locations. I guess the truth is, that wages, not food cost, drive these businesses because he is essentially saying that half of his locations become “uneconomic” at that point.
BTW nice to see that you are posting. Hope the recovery is going well for you.
But the union will make out with higher dues .....
Now I know why I’ve only ever had one (out of literally hundreds) of Amazon orders messed up.
Absolutely true, but the effect gets even worse.. We are now almost employees of every service industry that we interact with..
With the rise in wages at the lowest paid sector of service we now assume their duties.. We pump our own gas, pick up our own food, and cleanup after ourselves in food establishments.. Hell, we even pick up our own mail at the central mailboxes..
With an increase in low paid workers in fast food establishments a further reduction in the other duties will be done, as you aptly point out in more and more jobs taken by automation and less employment by entree level jobs traditionally done by youthful workers..
Young adults have less opportunities to learn to work, than ever before.. Most of the lost jobs do to the increase will further exasperate the problem..
Walmart has an average pay scale of over $12.00 p/h. They have thousands of outlets. People that have worked there for years and have earned $15 to $20 an hour will likely see their hours scaled back to accommodate the sniveling idiots who demand $15 as a starter.
Prices will go up an average of 25% because that’s how much Walmart pays in salaries and hourly pay out of their gross. And, of course, hundreds of thousands will lose their jobs.
This would affect suppliers, truck drivers, distribution, wholesalers, brick layers, carpet installers, all forms of construction, farmers. It’s endless.
Fast Food Strikes Ignore Technology
They're cutting off their noses to spite their faces!
What do you think happened when I offered to show her how to count out 85 cents in change with the minimum number of coins?
The phrase "You think I be stupid" eventually got blurted out ...
Last year I went to a MacDonalds TWICE and the people there got the order wrong BOTH TIMES!
That's why Liberals are so ignorant about how the economy works. :)
The unions don’t care. The people laid off will just be acceptable collateral damage. Their goal is to raise more money to elect more socialist Rats.
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