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Civil disobedience expected in fast-food pay fight
Associated Press ^ | Sep 1, 2014 5:55 PM EDT | Candice Choi

Posted on 09/01/2014 3:14:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai

McDonald’s, Wendy’s and other fast-food restaurants are expected to be targeted with acts of civil disobedience that could lead to arrests Thursday as labor organizers escalate their campaign to unionize the industry’s workers.

Kendall Fells, an organizing director for Fast Food Forward, said in an interview that workers in a couple of dozen cities were trained to peacefully engage in civil disobedience ahead of this week’s planned protests.

Fells declined to say what exactly is in store for the protests in around 150 U.S. cities. But workers involved in the movement recently cited sit-ins as an example of strategies they could use to intensify their push for higher pay and unionization. Past protests have targeted a couple of restaurants in each city. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: civildisobedience; communism; liberalagenda; mcdonalds; minimumwage; unions; unionthugs; wendys
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To: CatherineofAragon

But why pick on JUST females? Males should know the basics too. God gave them two hands as well. Certainly well enough to whip up a burger. Most of the males that cook do a good job of it too. EVERYONE should know the basics.


101 posted on 09/02/2014 12:59:36 AM PDT by gemoftheocean (...geez, this all seems so straight forward and logical to me...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

One of the fastest growing majors in college is Robotic Engineering/Technology.


102 posted on 09/02/2014 5:39:36 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: nascarnation

Yes it is. Now its called Family & Consumer Sciences.


103 posted on 09/02/2014 5:45:15 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Hot Tabasco

That’s an ideal. Back when there was some degree of honesty anywhere, even in government, if someone broke the rules it was often obvious. But the standard now is discretion when breaking the rules, followed by denial and quick destruction of evidence and legal stonewalling. If that sounds familiar, it is.

At the corporate level, a lot of it began with a surfeit of lawsuits against typically legal criticism. For example, if an employee was fired for stealing, yet used his former employer as a reference, and they told his potential employer why he was fired, they would get sued.

So most corporations refuse to give any references at all. But if an employee was particularly heinous, they have many ways of indirectly indicating that he should not be hired.

This just knocks it up a notch. There are innumerable lists in the “listverse” on the Internet. Vast numbers of them are little more than people’s names and are password bot protected. If say, 5% of the names on the very long list are union agitators, and the other 95% are random names, it would be a superb blacklist.

Say McDonalds got a whole bunch of new potential hires. Somebody in their corporate hiring office checks the list, then authorizes the hiring of the needed percentage of potential hires, not hiring the rest, which includes the union troublemakers. That should be invisible enough to escape scrutiny, as long as there is no direct computer “paper trail”. That is, no corporate computers were used.

The one employee, the list manager, lives in another country, and is on an obscure payroll.


104 posted on 09/02/2014 6:02:52 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Olog-hai

everyone should go to mcdonalds.com, email them that you want automated front end and food prep. Let them know you support them. If you do. If not, just prepare to pony up double for anything you currently buy there. no way around it. they are stripped to the bone already on profit margins.


105 posted on 09/02/2014 6:06:57 AM PDT by Colehill1999 (Obama - he has become death, destroyer of the world.)
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To: gemoftheocean

How is that “picking on” females?

When my husband was a teenager, his father showed him a few cooking basics...told him he should know how to feed himself without having to rely on fast food and takeout, because he would be on his own soon. I took over when we got married.

I don’t have a problem with men being in the kitchen. But I also don’t mind admitting I like the traditional setup, with the wife taking care of that side of things.


106 posted on 09/02/2014 8:31:30 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: caww

LOL!!


107 posted on 09/02/2014 8:31:59 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy; Hot Tabasco
Say McDonalds got a whole bunch of new potential hires. Somebody in their corporate hiring office checks the list, then

Corporate?

Probably 85% of McWhoppers are franchises.

Corporate just sticks their hand out collecting franchise fees and payments...

Once again, it's the foreigners, Muslims and assorted whatever from Ustinkistan who for years have been coming in with wheel barrels full of cash buying up these franchises. They've been buying up all the greedymarts, hotel chains, and McWhopper franchises and on and on.

And they hire their own foreign family and and muzzie friends to cook the books and to help avoid all that legal mumbo jumbo.

It's all part of the chaos and decline.

108 posted on 09/02/2014 9:45:46 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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