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Fast food workers vow civil disobedience (Demand $15/hr. minimum wage, unions)
The Tampa Tribune / The Associated Press ^ | July 26, 2014

Posted on 07/26/2014 5:59:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

VILLA PARK, Ill. — Comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement, fast food workers from across the country voted today to escalate their efforts for $15-an-hour pay and union membership to include nonviolent civil disobedience.

More than 1,300 workers gathered in a convention in center in suburban Chicago to discuss the future of a campaign that has spread to dozens of cities in less than two years. Wearing T-shirts that said “Fight for $15” and “We Are Worth More,” the workers cheered loudly and said they would win if they stuck together.

“People are just fed up,” said Cindy Enriquez, 20, of Phoenix....

(Excerpt) Read more at tbo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: economy; fastfood; food; illinois; minimumwage; seiu; unions; wages
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Obviously, you aren't worth more.
1 posted on 07/26/2014 5:59:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

and lazy, fatso americans will be terrified by this movement.


2 posted on 07/26/2014 6:01:04 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds like some of the “newly arrived” WILL be able to find work on their work permits. Heck, they’ll work for $7.15/hr no questions asked. Well at least til laraza tell them the white man is stickin’ it to them.


3 posted on 07/26/2014 6:01:38 PM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I suspect in 10 yrs the typical fast food place will have 2 employees per shift, basically to do logistics and sanitation.


4 posted on 07/26/2014 6:01:46 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If they are fed up, they should quit the job.

They also need a reality check. Fast food hired help in the labor market just isn’t worth what they seek.

They also need another reality check, which is that the jobs in the economy that pay well require schooling, training, college, and/or experience gained in lower level jobs which qualify them for the better jobs.

Bottom line — They can and should seek out other opportunities if they feel under paid and under valued. They should also educate themselves about what it takes to get the better paying jobs they would like to have, and do what it takes to get education and training to fill such jobs.


5 posted on 07/26/2014 6:02:46 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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1,300 out of how many million? All three of our daughters were fast food workers for 3-4 years of high school and college. They are all working professional jobs now.

It is called graduation and moving up. Ever heard of it?

6 posted on 07/26/2014 6:02:56 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: nascarnation

The machines already exist, they just have to be purchased and installed:

Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts

You can’t tell me that NO ONE at SEIU knows about this.


7 posted on 07/26/2014 6:04:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Bring the machines in. Layoff60%


8 posted on 07/26/2014 6:04:20 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: rktman

Well, anecdotal evidence where I live, is that most fast food workers were not born in this country. I can’t say anything about work permits or legal status. Just observing, that we no longer see big numbers of young American born people in such jobs.


9 posted on 07/26/2014 6:05:19 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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But many people now are staying with fast-food restaurants for years, because they’re often the only ones available, workers said.

Yes, ever since the jag-off most of you pea brains voted for begin his "fundamental transformation of America."

10 posted on 07/26/2014 6:05:54 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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11 posted on 07/26/2014 6:06:00 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Many of these individuals probably already have degrees. Alas, they are probably in womyn’s studies, French literature, philosophy and medieval arts & crafts.


12 posted on 07/26/2014 6:06:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: nascarnation

There will be at least 3.

The 2 you point out and a third to check your permit to see what Moocher Obama’s food police will allow you to eat.


13 posted on 07/26/2014 6:06:42 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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Let’s run ‘em over a scale. From what I see, I’d bet 8 out of 10 are plenty well “fed” as well. And let’s put all the smartphones on the table and see how they shake out too, and then check the kind of cars in the parking lot.


14 posted on 07/26/2014 6:07:38 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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You know what would be hilarious: A one-minute ad showing the corporate board of some fictitious restaurant chain giving in to the demands, then one month later (within the ad) shows customers placing their orders at the drive-thru, only to cancel and speed through when they hear the prices of the food.

And then the employees whining why no one is buying food, and the store manager calmly explains the effects of the minimum wage and that they're going to be fired and replaced by robots.

15 posted on 07/26/2014 6:08:26 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Legal Plunder Has Many Names

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.

The Law - Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850


16 posted on 07/26/2014 6:08:38 PM PDT by PGalt
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They can demand whatever they want and it won’t matter, there won’t be enough customers that can afford the product to keep the business open, but hey neither they or the predatory unions goading them have the slightest idea of how business works.


17 posted on 07/26/2014 6:10:25 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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Set one of these babies alongside, paint some yellow arches and you're good to go:


18 posted on 07/26/2014 6:10:30 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

why don’t we do a little civil disobedience until they eject the illegals?

btw... someone should let these morons know that 0bama’s flooding the country with illegals... which will drop the wage they get... IF they can find a job


19 posted on 07/26/2014 6:13:09 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: bigbob

20 posted on 07/26/2014 6:13:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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