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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: narses

Thanks, narses.


61 posted on 09/01/2014 4:56:16 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Both my (adult) daughters are stay at home moms and cook a lot.

They are really outliers among their peer group.

I don’t think “home economics” is taught anymore?


62 posted on 09/01/2014 4:57:50 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: Secret Agent Man; Veggie Todd

There’s a burger in that picture?


63 posted on 09/01/2014 5:13:55 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: nascarnation

“I don’t think “home economics” is taught anymore?”

“Home Ec” has become EBT/SNAP/WIC/SEC8 Management.


64 posted on 09/01/2014 5:14:56 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: nascarnation

So many women prefer a career over home life. To be fair, Obama’s economy has made it necessary for a lot of wives to bring in a check. I know that when I worked, I would come home exhausted, not even wanting to look at the stove. So we got restaurant takeout. I got sick of living like that, and so did my husband.

I think some schools do still teach Home Ec, but they call it something different like “Family Science”.

I took it in the 8th grade during the late ‘70s. We wore white aprons and had a great time.


65 posted on 09/01/2014 5:22:35 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: CatherineofAragon

I could never eat in restaurants 4 or 5 times a week and maintain any kind of reasonable weight.
I’d have to retrain myself.
I wonder if that’s one reason there are a lot more overweight persons these days?


66 posted on 09/01/2014 5:25:11 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: berdie

Nope, no sales.

I was quality control for oilfield pipe inspection.

I was the only one qualified to go on rig jobs for a couple of companies and the only one that could go on the King Ranch for Exxon.

The manager/salesman had sold the oil companies the service the company provided based on my knowledge and the guarantee I would be the one on the job, and they wouldn’t use anyone else.


67 posted on 09/01/2014 5:29:00 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: fhayek

Ya better get started now because there are already several burgers which cost well over six bucks.


68 posted on 09/01/2014 5:30:35 PM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: JW1949

You don’t want to eat fast food slop anyway....Trust me.

BTW, most of these McWhopper franchises are now owned by foreigners, Mid-easterners Muslims and on and on.


69 posted on 09/01/2014 5:36:02 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Olog-hai
I'm very,very,*very* price sensitive when deciding on patronizing McDonalds and similar places.A $15/hr minimum wage would,at the very least,cause me to dramatically cut down on my visits...if not stop them entirely.

But the union bosses will win big time regardless of what I decide.

70 posted on 09/01/2014 5:44:11 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Once that list is shared,...they will gladly sue you if their name is on it.........It's one thing to terminate an employee but to blackball them from future employment is going to get your company sued faster than you can replace them.
71 posted on 09/01/2014 5:44:56 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Is there such a thing as a vegan zombie?)
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To: nascarnation

Could be part of the reason, I’d think. The portions they give you are huge.

My sister-in-law works long hours, and she practically falls down when she gets home. She and her husband eat out almost every night. But the girl has restraint-—she never gains a pound.

I’d get sick of restaurant food, though. There are so many good things to cook.


72 posted on 09/01/2014 5:47:23 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
There would be nothing unlawful about fast food chains blacklisting troublesome employees.

Since most these slop joints franchises are now owned by foreigners, Mid-Easterners and Muslims, I'm sure they'd fully support that.

73 posted on 09/01/2014 5:49:03 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: fhayek; Veggie Todd
"Hamburger? What hamburger?"/// that would've been my responce. 🍔🍟🍵
74 posted on 09/01/2014 5:49:57 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: caww

Wait till they see the TAX DEDUCTIONS, AND UNION DUES taken from
their NEW found wages they won’t even SEE the increase!!!!!! FOOLS all
of them!!!!!


75 posted on 09/01/2014 5:51:15 PM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Olog-hai

Remember the fake protests in cities in the last run up to the election. Where are they now?
They were paid protesters and bums. This is a variation of it.


76 posted on 09/01/2014 5:54:32 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: caww; All
I just got a cookbook; from Claudia Sanders, (Col. Sander's wife)
look like good stuff...a weightwatcher's nightmare. 🍳
77 posted on 09/01/2014 6:12:39 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Making me hungry already! Sounds great....I’m not at all a weight watcher...seems I’m a fast burn as still maintaining the weight I had in high school. So I eat what I want.

I do love the Colonials Original Fried Chicken though...and it’s real chicken!


78 posted on 09/01/2014 6:19:56 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Back in the old days of the Golden Arches, that’s what fifteen cents got you. Almost worth it at that price.

Another fifteen cents for fries, fifteen more for a Coke.

This was around oh, say....1965.


79 posted on 09/01/2014 6:20:31 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Kit cat

Wait till they see the TAX DEDUCTIONS, AND UNION DUES taken from their NEW found wages they won’t even SEE the increase!!!!!! FOOLS all of them!!!!!

You got that right Kit cat....but then they aren’t really good at checking those things out. However let them find it out....I’ll cook at home.


80 posted on 09/01/2014 6:22:06 PM PDT by caww
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