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Single Mom Takes On McDonald’s in Wage Fight [instead of getting better job skills and a husband]
yahoo.com ^ | December 17, 2014 | Elise Solé

Posted on 12/17/2014 2:53:48 PM PST by grundle

She’s a mom on a mission. A single mother-of-two from the Los Angeles neighborhood of South Central recently went on strike against her employer McDonald’s. Maribel makes $9.35 per hour working as a server but that’s not enough to support her family (she shares a home with 10 other people including her children, grandmother, and niece). “I need fifteen to buy my babies diapers, their wipies, their clothes,” she explains. “Its hard with nine dollars per hour — you can’t do that. It’s really hard to pay rent.”

On December 4, Maribel, along with a large group seeking $15 per hour and union rights for fast food workers, picketed a McDonald’s location in downtown Los Angeles. “It’s really exciting going inside my own store,” she says before leading a group of chanting protesters inside. Maribel was not alone in her efforts — that day, fast food workers walked off the job in more then 150 cities across the country.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: entitlementculture; latin; mcdonalds; minimumwage
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To: grundle

It’s curious that a business hires a person without knowing if they even have a ‘family’ and if they do or if they expand their family once hired - the business needs to pay up to support all those involved within the family unit.

Sounds socialist.


21 posted on 12/17/2014 3:09:46 PM PST by relentlessly
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To: Cyman

That as one of my most important lessons from my parents. Usually when I got arrogant or ignorant as a teenager. “you gotta earn it, the word doesn’t owe you a damn thing” was heard more than a few times growing up.

CC


22 posted on 12/17/2014 3:11:17 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Tagline Constructon zone- low humor ahead)
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To: Organic Panic

I would say that counting change, it is well into 7digits.


23 posted on 12/17/2014 3:11:47 PM PST by sport
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To: grundle

If no one else will hire you for more money you can figure that you are already being paid all your labor contribution and skills are worth.

Either upgrade your skills or get a second job.

Or two or three.


24 posted on 12/17/2014 3:11:48 PM PST by Iron Munro (D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: grundle

I think she needs to demand $480.77 per hour. That way she will make, roughly, $1,000,000 per year before taxes. Of course, with Barry’s tutalage, she will only be able to work part time. So, she will need to work, at least, a couple of years, maybe up to four, to get the whole million, but what’s a month or two among friends?


25 posted on 12/17/2014 3:12:04 PM PST by stevem
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To: grundle
Maribel, meet your replacement.

And unlike you, it knows how to "hablo ingles."

26 posted on 12/17/2014 3:12:23 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: CaptainAmiigaf

McDonald’s is already screwed (at the lower wage levels); I’ve noticed a lot less customers there over the past couple of years, and the stock price seems to bear this out. The food is too expensive, and people that loved it as teens can barely stomach it 20 years later. Today’s teens are more likely to eat tacos than Big Macs...


27 posted on 12/17/2014 3:13:20 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: grundle

has she been fired yet?


28 posted on 12/17/2014 3:13:35 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: Kozak
SEIU. Union wages are based tied to minimum wage.

Some perhaps but I worked under U.A.W. contracts for 30+ years and no contract had anything whatsoever tied to the minimum wage.

29 posted on 12/17/2014 3:14:10 PM PST by Graybeard58 (1Timothy, 5: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus)
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To: kearnyirish2
Today’s teens are more likely to eat tacos than Big Macs...

If McDonalds were to offer decent tacos, I'd probably buy them....and they'd probably double their business.

30 posted on 12/17/2014 3:15:47 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: kearnyirish2

McD’s food is too expensive. They have a discount menu for $1.19 including a double burger. They have a sausage and egg burrito at breakfast for just over a buck.

If you want a big mac combo it can be expensive, but that’s just part of the menu.


31 posted on 12/17/2014 3:15:55 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: eyeamok
"She is the reason I almost NEVER eat at fast food places, especially McDonald’s."

That, and the food.

Chick-fil-A. The employee turnover is a fraction of other fast food chains.

32 posted on 12/17/2014 3:15:58 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: grundle
but that’s not enough to support her family

Well boo feakin hoo. What does she want? $30 an hour to clean tables and take orders? Does she think people are going to pay $10 for a hamburger to support her sorry, lazy ass? Get better skills. Use this as an entry level job and move up through hard work and initiative.

33 posted on 12/17/2014 3:17:17 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: grundle

“Elise Solé you ignorant slut.” as Dan would say back in the day.
She writes what Yahoo wants her to and Yahoo’s advertisers love stupid women.


34 posted on 12/17/2014 3:18:50 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: grundle; MeshugeMikey
she shares a home with 10 other people including her children, grandmother, and niece

What % are illegals? What do you figure that their combined welfare WIC entitlements etc. comes out to way more than salaries of regular American families who barely scrape by because these "I deserve more" entitlement leeches suck citizens' paychecks dry?

The Yahoo comments are less charitable than the ones on FR.

Oh, and the video is disgusting. That's what democracy looks like all right... mob rule and threats.

35 posted on 12/17/2014 3:19:15 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Celtic Conservative
That was then, this is now. Not, the operative word to the parasites is, “You deserve”, until the rulers consolidate their power. Then the parasites will be in for a rude awakening. They will find themselves eliminated very quickly and very efficient. They are only being used by their masters to destroy the United States. Once their task is complete, they go from asset to liability. Their masters will get rid of their liabilities very rapidly. You might say they have a liquidation sale.
36 posted on 12/17/2014 3:19:29 PM PST by sport
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Stop procreating with losers.

That's a BIG one.

37 posted on 12/17/2014 3:20:16 PM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: grundle
She also certainly gets Medicaide and Food Stamps...at least.

And, she should have thought of her plight before she took her panties off.

Now she wants to make it McDonalds, and OUR problem.

Society would be better off by taking her kids from her and putting them in a orphanage...and so would the kids.

38 posted on 12/17/2014 3:20:51 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: grundle

If she has additional children that she cannot afford her wages should be increased to 20.65?


39 posted on 12/17/2014 3:22:56 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: Organic Panic

OMG. She has time to spread her legs? I hear you. You get to the point of what’s up with her being a single mom, and where is the dad or dads of her children?

There is poverty measured in dollars and cents, and then there is a poverty of values and behavior too. We as a culture seem incapable of discussing the poverty of values which so many people are afflicted with. Violates political correctness to talk about certain subjects.


40 posted on 12/17/2014 3:24:13 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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