Protesters target McDonald's headquarters in pay fight

ChicagoTribune.com ^ | May 22, 2014 | Jessica Wohl

[Biggirl]

Hundreds of McDonald's workers and community activists staged a protest Wednesday near the fast-food chain's headquarters in Oak Brook, seeking a wage increase to at least $15 per hour for employees.

[driftdiver]

Just nationalize the burger joints and be done with it. For the good of the many (translated into few union bosses) of course.

[SoFloFreeper]

Fire them. Close the restaurants for “re-tooling” and release all the employees.

Rehire those who did not whine.

[VideoDoctor]

“What fools these mortals be”

[albie]

from what I understand the dollar menu is already over. What’s next the discount 5 dollar menu?

[deoetdoctrinae]

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[StoneWall Brigade]

15 dollars an hour just to flip a hamburger in what world are we living in?

[4yearlurker]

I don’t know anybody that is with the “Do you want fries with that” crowd. Fire them all!!!

[hal ogen]

What’s wrong with these protesting people? Going to a fast-food joint isn’t a necessity to live for the rest of us. Can you spell “unemployed”?

[Yo-Yo]

"Extra Ketchup does not compute. Have a nice day."

[detective]

“Cherri Delesline, 27, from Charleston, S.C”

The article said there were community activists and McDonald's workers from throughout the country blocking traffic and trespassing.

My first question is if these people don't have enough money to survive as they claim how can they afford airfare, hotels, transportation to Chicago and the McDonald's headquarters.

It is obvious they are flown or bussed in and herded to the protest site.

Who is paying for this?

[mountainlion]

Used to be you could get 8 hamburgers for a dollar on one night a week. I quit going when they took the malt out of the malts. Campbells soup out of the can is fast food now.

[Charlemagne on the Fox]

Robert Bruno, a professor of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said civil disobedience is a long practiced and developed form of resistance that groups without money or political clout use to drag out their “oppressor.” The fact that workers are willing to travel and get arrested shows that the movement is getting stronger, Bruno said. The election season, he said, creates a platform for the McDonald's workers' campaign.

Right . . . the groups are without money but willing to travel. And in a paragraph above a protester from South Carolina said her flight was paid for by a union.

[Jane Long]

Who is paying for this?

Usual suspects, leftist groups....like the SEIU, etc.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”“We need to show McDonald's that we're serious and that we're not backing down,” said Jessica Davis, a 25-year-old McDonald's crew trainer.
Davis, a mother of two, works at a company-owned McDonald's in Chicago, said she earns $8.98 per hour and works part-time despite requests for more hours. Most of the protesting workers are employed by franchisees. That makes them a hard group to organize because the union would have to launch a campaign with every employer and gain the support of the majority of the workers at every location.”

Maybe if she worked full time she would advance in her work.

She has time for this though, demanding freebees.

[andyk]

Cherri Delesline, 27, from Charleston, S.C., said that she makes $7.35 an hour at a McDonald's and has been working there for 10 years.

That is because you have no skill set, and in the past 10 years, you did nothing to change that.

[CGASMIA68]

Same ole socialist union organizer crap....the organizers don’t give a crap about these fools,,,,,the organizer still gets paid even if their “TOOL” gets canned, and what happens to the apprentice electrician,plumber etc now at 15 an hour and paid for an education and training 30.00 I don’t think so

These “tools” are such idiots.....can em all as I am sure each store mgr has a stack of apps on there desk.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Liberal war on jobs continues.

[sportutegrl]

Hundreds of McDonald's workers and community activists . . .

What percentage of the protesters were actually McDonald's workers, I wonder.

[sport]

I will be willing to go out on a limb and say George Soros.