Posted on 04/15/2015 10:31:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Fast food workers in the city and around the country are walking off the job today to demand $15 an hour.
Protesters started lining up at the McDonalds on Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn early this morning.
It's the latest day of action organized by the Fight for $15 movement.
Many workers taking place in today's protest say that they work 40 hours a week and still don't make enough to cover their rent and the basic costs of living.
"Every month, I make two-thirds of my rent, and that's the only thing I can do, is pay my rent. I can't buy food, I can't buy toiletries, I can't treat my grandchildren to a day out," said one person at the protest. "It's very difficult."
"It's real difficult because I got to support a wife and four kids, and $8.75 just can't make it," said another. "We need $15, and we need a union to back us up in case if cost of living keep going up, transit going up, food going up, everything going up."
More protests are scheduled to take place later this afternoon. A march from Columbus Circle to Times Square is also planned for this evening, where thousands more are expected to join.
The group says tens of thousands of people will be demonstrating in more than 200 U.S. cities.
Demonstrations are scheduled in 40 other countries around the world.
Oh yeah.
“I worked at Shakeys for $1.90 an hour. I wanted more money so I went to drafting school. Then I got $5.75 an hour. I wanted more money so I went to COBOL programming school. Then I moved to $6.75 and peaked at $125 an hour.
If someone want’s more money, they make themselves more valuable - or get used to driving an old Vega.”
POST OF THE DAY.
Same here.
They fixed that with their never ending conga-line of millions of low wage workers $$.
Profits regardless of consequences.
What difference does it make right?
America is beginning to show more of thise early signs pointing toward collapse.
One of my favorite scenes!
The dumbing down of the American youth really worked.
It seems like the average modern 25-30 y/o is the equivalent of the average 18-19 y/o of say the 1980’s? You almost are required to treat them like children they are so clueless.
Many of them have not even attempted to leave home or if they did it was for a few month and then back to moms. Where they pay little or not rent. Do not save any money for the future. Mom does their laundry, even cooks and cleans their room?
Its really kind of embarrassing. Adult children.
“Every month, I make two-thirds of my rent, and that’s the only thing I can do, is pay my rent. I can’t buy food, I can’t buy toiletries, I can’t treat my grandchildren to a day out,” said one person at the protest. “It’s very difficult.”
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That’s what happens when you spend your entire lifetime voting for Big Government and tolerating its corruption in exchange for entitlements.
Some people will never make more than minimum wage. They need to be told that minimum wage was never meant to support a family of four. In many places it cannot support a single person without pitching in and room with two or three other workers.
You’re probably old enough to remember when fast food was termed “McJobs” by Pelosi.
In the Baraqqi Depression they are suddenly supposed to provide a middle class living for a family of 4.
Fire those who walk.
” You’re probably old enough to remember when fast food was termed “McJobs” by Pelosi.”
Heck, I’m old enough to remember when 45 cents bought a burger, fries and a shake at McD’s.
“In the Baraqqi Depression they are suddenly supposed to provide a middle class living for a family of 4.”
If they work 120 hours a week, they will be fine : )
Those jobs are typically for teenagers so that they can buy gas and enjoy life a little. Who in his right mind would even mistake one of those jobs for one that could support a family?
Some people will never make more than minimum wage.
It does appear that some will work many, many hours just to survive. Well, unless we have a welfare state. ;-)
Why is that?
It does appear that some will work many, many hours just to survive. Well, unless we have a welfare state. ;-)
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because some are just not intelligent enough, motivated enough, disabled, uninterested, or unfocused.
There will always be impoverished and low wage earners. Very rarely did these people expect to have more, and they were fixutres in their families homes, caring for parents, babysitting and doing small jobs. Not a bad life back then.
It will never end.
With five dependents and a minimum wage job, he's not paying any taxes. In fact he gets a goodly sum in the form of the Earned Income Tax Credit EITC.
He may even opt for Federal Withholding because he loves all the money he gets back in February or March. And people of this intelligence level thinks the EITC comes from the great and benevolent federal government.
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