Posted on 11/03/2014 6:47:05 AM PST by YankeeReb
In a surprise move CEO Donald Thompson of McDonald’s Restaurants announced they had reached an agreement with the SEIU and would start paying its workers a “Living Wage” of $15.00 per hour the first of October. Mr. Thompson issued a press release stating, “As a company we realize we have been negligent in paying our employees a real living wage for the last 60 years, so in the spirit of social well-being, we have decided to comply with the wishes of the White House and the SEIU.”
The Service Employees International Union spokesman, Seymour Pecunia, said that he “was very happy that McDonald’s had agreed to their demands.” He was also hopeful that McDonald’s decision would lead to similar agreements with Burger King, Wendy’s, Hardee’s and Taco Bell. As the largest retail seller of fast food, the agreement will set a high bar for other fast-food chains to meet.
It is estimated the move will cost the company over 100 million dollars the first year. Much of the cost will be made up in higher food prices according to management sources. “We have been working on new price guidelines for several months and think we have come up with a workable menu pricing guideline for our franchisees.
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If this was not satire an agreement to $15 would automatically make the unions come back and demand 20.
The cost of eating at McDonalds is directing proportional to the cost of toilet paper.
I knew it.
McDonalds has a long, long track record of surrendering to the prevailing populist (liberal) winds. This comes as no surprise to me.
With the crap food that McDonalds sells and with the higher prices that will now be required, I strongly suggest selling your McDonalds stock.
I thought the gay one would cost a single $3 bill...
I thought the gay one would cost a single $3 bill...
Satire, or not, I don’t worry about it...haven’t been to mcdonalds’s for over 5 years, no plans to go there in the future.
This article is almost two months old. Confused as to why you’d post an article that old and not, at least, put that it’s satire in the first comment space.
Well.....if several $7.50 employees are replaced with one or two $15.00 employees maintaining several automated burger makers/servers....the price of a Big Mac may rise only slightly if at all.
Of course, expect SEIU thugs to come in and trash da place!
Some of the worst labor violence of the past 100 years has been due to automation.
SEIU is a gangster, shakedown outfit whose former Capa di Tutti Capi, Anna Burger, is a cultural radical. Perhaps McDonald’s took this move after dealing with the Yakuza in Japan. If they become family unfriendly like “Orange & white stencil hardware” or “red & white bullseye” discounter whom we already boycott, we’ll stop going there.
Push the button, pink slime on, pink slime off.
I have been predicting for some time that Walmart would eventually agree to accept unionization as the price to stay on the good side of gubbermint and maintain their quasi-monopoly.
I could foresee McDonalds doing the same. Especially if it would call off Moochelle and her Food Police.
Please include “satire” or “humor” in headline. Otherwise, you are the kid ringing a doorbell and running away.
Reads like satire.
$8.00 Whopper at McDonalds?
Weird.
I thought I put it in the keywords. I may have missed it (my 15 year old windows 2000 computer is very unreliable). Apologies, my bad.
At least I asked, LOL.
Satire- SEIU spokesman “seymour pecunia”.
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