Posted on 11/29/2016 12:41:44 PM PST by mdittmar
Scores of demonstrators were arrested on Tuesday as U.S. workers from fast-food chains staged nationwide protests for higher pay, union rights and immigration reform in their first major action since Donald Trump was elected president.
McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) restaurants in 340 cities were prime rally targets, while baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and sky caps at Chicago's O'Hare and Boston's Logan international airports planned to demonstrate in support of workers demanding starting pay of $15 per hour, organizers of the "Fight for $15" campaign said.
More than 200 protesters gathered before dawn at Zuccotti Park in New York City's Financial District, the site of a camp set up in 2011 by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, where they banged drums and chanted slogans.
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He wouldn’t be out with the riff raff,he just funds them.
I agree with your take on it, and I’m glad to hear that is working out for your son.
Also glad to hear McDonald’s has figured it out too.
I think those jobs are very important as an introduction to the work-force.
Rents will go from $2000 to $3800.
Homes go from $400,000 to $800,000 and states like CA with Dem super majorities will blanket the people with new real estate taxes to try and pay for 250 billion in unfounded union perks and other insanities.
Don’t give a fig about Kohl’s. They’ve been letting men inside the women’s dressing rooms for years. I complained about 8 years ago just got stares back as if I’d grown a second head.
Fast food is doubling their cost to customers.
Carl’s Junior Big Burgers two years ago were 99¢. Now they are $2, which to me is a doubling of the cost of food.
Absolutely they are. I had a few jobs when I got started. One only lasted a day. (I quit. It was a restaurant that observed very shoddy cleanliness practices) Another I had for four years. My first job was doing janitorial maintenance at a racquetball club.
It’s amazing how much you learn and retain. The job that lasted four years was working at a small sporting goods shop. I even had a key to the shop and often opened or closed. Once, I stopped by on my day off to get may paycheck after closing the night before. My boss was furious at me. I forgot to lock the door when I left. He didn’t speak to me for a few days but I kept my job.
I’m still paranoid about locking doors. Just last night, I left an event at church, got in the car, got out of the car and doublechecked to make sure I locked up.
First jobs are meant to be more valuable than what you get paid. Personally I believe minimum wage should be zero.
Maybe Stein could order a recount.........
where be the robots and kiosks?
unions still only get 650 protesters to show up nationwide,major fail;)
Technically, they're correct. "Scores" did show up. Twenty scores equals 400. That's a score-scores!!
Value meals are ridiculously high already. A drive thru burger/fries/drink shouldn't cost $8-10. I've posted several times I can make 5 homemade copycat Schlotsky's sandwiches for the price of a store bought. Cheapo bean burritos cost pennies at home compared to Taco Bell. A $3 bag of chips cost 25 cents to make at home. Slice and fry isn't brain surgery. And forget about Pizza Hut. Pizza is the most over charged item out there next to coffee. $15/hr. may wake people up about sack lunches and leftovers and they'll start learning to cook again. Shocker, my aunt called on Thanksgiving and said they weren't going out for dinner. They used to eat out daily.
My actual first job was a paper route. I was paid $3.00 for five afternoons of work. It was the Joplin Missouri News Herald.
My second job was at a religious boarding academy. I was paid $0.48 cents an hour.
When I joined McDonalds as a teenager, I was paid $1.25 an hour and considered it moving up. LOL
I’m not convinced that minimum wages are good. We have essentially created a black market of workers. Employers should be able to price their pay at whatever the market will bear.
If a guy is only paying $2.50 an hour, he won’t have many takers. They will only work for a short period and move on to a place that pays more. There they will stay longer, moving on again when an opportunity arises.
Citizens who play by the rules, don’t work for under the table wages. This screws with their Social Security quarters. Granted Social Security needs to be revamped, but we still need to play by the rules until it is.
I won’t be surprised at all if Trump addresses Social Security and Medicare during his first term.
No matter how much they scream, and no matter what laws get passed, the minimum wage will still be $0.
I saw Taco Bell testing them 12 years ago on Orangethorpe Fullerton.
Jacks in LA also 5 years ago worked on them, same for McDonalds.
First jobs used to be at restaurants and gas stations. Look what happened to full service gas stations. The same will happen to fast food.
Arby’s has already set up kiosks where you place you own order
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Sheetz (PA based Gas Station/Conv Store/Sandwiches) has had auto order for food for years.
going to be a lot of $15 an hour jobs evaporate.
Wawa has had touchscreen kiosks for years where you could order hoagies and other things. I’m amazed that other stores haven’t gone the same way already.
Not really. The restaurant still needs the same number of employees no matter the wage.
The problem is when the min. wage is doubled, the price of a loaf of bread is doubled. Everything is doubled so you’re back where you started from if you’re luck but most likely you’re further behind. Salaried employees won’t get their paychecks doubled. All those dollars you scrimped and saved are now worth less. Your retirement that was once adequate is now laughable.
Beginning minimum wage jobs were never ment to be adult permanent careers.
CA already ordered a gaining minimum going toward $15.
Companies will flee in droves and only takers and people who got homes long ago will stay.
The state has to collapse. Where do they get the 250 billion they never should have made pensions for?
A hand picked Judge will just say raise all taxes.
People could lose it all in CA.
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