Fast Food Slows Down as McDonald's, Wendy's Take a Hit
Posted on 08/28/2013 5:05:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-food customers in search of burgers and fries on Thursday might run into striking workers instead.
Organizers say thousands of fast-food workers are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the country, part of a push to get chains such as McDonald's, Taco Bell and Wendy's to pay workers higher wages.
It's expected be the largest nationwide strike by fast-food workers, according to organizers. The biggest effort so far was over the summer when about 2,200 of the nation's millions of fast-food workers staged a one-day strike in seven cities.
Thursday's planned walkouts follow a series of strikes that began last November in New York City, then spread to cities including Chicago, Detroit and Seattle. Workers say they want $15 an hour, which would be about $31,000 a year for full-time employees. That's more than double the federal minimum wage, which many fast food workers make, of $7.25 an hour, or $15,000 a year.
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I don’t believe these people are “striking workers” - more like union paid thugs.
Fast Food Slows Down as McDonald's, Wendy's Take a Hit
“Someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.”
-—Dr. Peter Venkman
and it won't spit in your food...
I’ve been striking fast food restaurants for years ...... what’s the big deal??
welders go on strike because few people can weld, semi drivers go on strike because few people can drive a semi, bricklayers, construction equipment drivers, carpenters, chefs, go on strike because they are hard to replace....fast food workers shouldn’t go on strike because virtually ANYBODY can quickly become a fast food worker. I didn’t imply that they had no value, just that they are easily replaced.
Effem.
I’ll pack a lunch.
After the last two restaurants we’ve been to we ARE going to stay home and cook.”
I agree. Told my family that somehow the food just wasn’t as good any more, even at our favorite restaurants. Thought it was just me.
Rule of thumb - If you want a successful garage sale or walkout, don’t do it at the end of the month. Wait until the first Saturday of the new month when those you expect to show up have received their government benefits.
If you want to have successful buycott, it doesn’t matter because these places are supported by Conservative hard working folks. Chick-fil-A is a prime example, the traffic is always steady, doesn’t matter whether it’s the 1st or the 30th of the month.
Just damn.
I haven’t been to McD’s since the late 70’s and I had my heart all set to go tomorrow and have this bunch serve me my food.
Now I feel like a deprived child.
Wildcat strikes got you down? Fire the bastids and hire some new people.
-——Laila Jennings, a 29-year-old sales associate at T.J. Maxx, was eating at a McDonald’s in New York City this week and said she hadn’t heard of the movement. Still, she said she thinks workers should be paid more. “They work on their feet all day,” Jennings said, adding that $12 to $15 an hour seemed fair.-——
She will be the first to bitch when her meal doubles in price........it seems fair as she put it...
Bingo! What's more, with the sad state of American industry (or lack of it) and our job market, these temporary jobs are about as good as it gets.
So how's that hopeee changeeee thing working for you, Obama voters ?
And the robot will probably not “excrete” any fluids on your meal if having a bad day or just feeling a little bit frisky.
She will be the first to bitch when her meal doubles in price........it seems fair as she put it...
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You can ‘bet your bippy!’ that she has absolutely no idea that management will pass the extra expense on to the consumers.
These people are sort of ‘brainwashed (in a lot of cases an impossibility) that the rising wages are absorbed by the money grubbers.
I am hoping that these are paid protesters. They look like the type that might spit in your food. I attended a conference some years ago and at our dinner table a state inspector who investigated food handling incidents had stories to tell that would make you never ever want to eat out. She only told a few but it was enough to make us all sick. This strike may be a way for management to cull the unwanted employee.
I think it would be marvelous if all the fast food customers went on strike and refused to eat at the establishments that these strikers work at. The franchisees will suffer, but recover however many of the strikers will not. Let them all get their paychecks from the union agitators.
Better yet, If I owned a fast food joint, I would close down Friday and Saturday. Just tell the strikers, no work for you those days. Screw them. Starve them out. Go find work elsewhere. Rots of ruck with that in the new Obama economy. Then hire strike busters and shove the trouble makers out.
In a at will state for sure, and probably elsewhere, not showing up for work or impeding the business is grounds for dismissal. I don’t believe not performing your job because you were protesting your employer is a valid excuse for missing work. So fire them for cause and dispute any unemployment claim.
Gonna be a big day at chik-fil-a again!
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