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....
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They want to be layed off so they can collect unemployment and sit sipping colt 45 out of a straw watching 1 800 lawyer for thier next buck
Used to go to the one in downtown Philly (probably Broad St., though it could have been Market) as a child in the early 60s; thought it was the neatest thing. Maybe it's why I learned to love Japan with all its vending machines...
The rest is all done via a touch interface with a credit card swipe.
Kinda prefer not being pestered by wait staff incessantly myself. Much more pleasant "dining experience" if you can call Chili's that.......
The one on the left looks like she was just told that the machine behind her now has her job.
The math of fast food restaurants is pretty much set in stone..a certain % of your cost is for food, another is for labor, another for the facility ( rent, mortgage, utities..etc..)double the labor cost, and a Big Mac will go up by about 65%..and how many will sell at that price?..and how many layoffs will then occur?
Of course I don’t think you could pay your way doing that today
Oh thank you federal government for “fixing” higher education!
McDonalds is already making more out of its overseas operations than in this country. The computerized ordering systems are not too far off here.
lol! Ain’t it great?
“but of course you realize its not the fast food workers themselves who are actually doing the organizing and writing the slogans.”
Of course, they’re parroting the words of their “Community Organizer.” Everyone should have one, the U.S. has one on Pennsylvania Ave.
$15/hr ain’t easy street. That’s how much I making repairing hemodialysis machines. I have to work a second job in order to pay my bills.
If they get $15, I’ll start flipping burgers.
I’ve made $1.25 an hour (minimum wage when I was a teenager) and I’ve made as much as $30,000 a day. I know which one I preferred. LOL
At $15 - these people are going to be replaced by recent veterans who know how to work efficiently.
And yet, some still manage to screw it up.
Yep, why doesn’t the union start their own fast food places and retail outlets with such great wages?
lol
Yeah, people like that ought to realize their limitations and be thankful there’s a place in the workforce for them.
Hon, if you’re
“worth more” then show us your college or trade school diploma. Show us any skill beyond, “Do you want fries with that?” At $15, they just signed their pink slip because customers will opt for a steak house over a high priced burger. Of course, that $10 they wanted last month wasn’t good enough.
See #7.
“I suspect in 10 yrs the typical fast food place will have 2 employees per shift, basically to do logistics and sanitation.”
Indeed. Each wage increase, government regulation of employees, obamacare, lawsuit, etc. provides yet another incentive for automation. Pretty soon fast food joints won’t be much more than automated self-serve kiosks. And as you say, there will be a need for an actual employee to load the raw ingredients into the input hoppers from the delivery trucks and someone to haul out the trash and swab the floors.
Coffee shops will probably be the first to go that route. 99.9% of coffee shops already have 100% automated espresso makers that require no more than punching in the number of shots and pushing the “START” button, not too much more difficult to operate than the self-serve soda-pop machines all fast food outfits have.
My prediction is that in short order the espresso makers will be moved from behind the counter to the FRONT of the counter where customers make their own espresso drinks, completely eliminating the need for a “barista” to push the “START” button for you.
It’s only one more step for the espresso machine makers to add a credit-card swipe unit that auto-charges you for the espresso you make based on the number of shots you dial in.
At that point, the only need for an employee is to load the beans in the hoppers. Big enough hoppers, and that need be done only once a day. At that point, many of these shops can then just be converted into totally self-serve kiosks.
Once this equipment gets built, installed and self-serve shown to be successful, the rest of the country will quickly move in that same direction.
This still goes on in America?
If we raise the cost of those burgers and fries with this demand of $15 per hour, wont they (above) just demand that we raise welfare payments because they (burgers and fries ) will no longer be ‘affordable’ for the welfare recipients?
They never stop demanding more free stuff.
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