[TangoLimaSierra]

The owners of these franchises should have a meeting of employees and show how X workers will have to lose their jobs
in order to go to $15 per hour wages. Let them vote on who goes. It would probably be the first informed vote they
ever made.

[re_nortex]

The owners of these franchises should have a meeting of employees and show how X workers will have to lose their jobs in order to go to $15 per hour wages. Let them vote on who goes. It would probably be the first informed vote they ever made.

I disagree. These types lack the intelligence to be reasoned with. Overwhelming force is the only way to knock any sense into their thick skulls. The Pinkertons were effective to neutralize the strikers in Homestead, Pennsylvania. It's long past time to deal with union scum and the minimum wage rabble in that no-nonsense manner again.

[grania]

Assume 12 workers make $10 an hour each. That would be 10 workers at $12 an hour (a more realistic increase). They'd have better workers and less benefits to pay out. I say go for it.

Those numbers a realistic. McDonalds and the dregs of the fast food industry get the worst workers who don't last long. They're always training new people who mostly don't stick around. How is that profitable?

The problem would take care of itself if US workers didn't have to compete with invaders. If low-income workers had any brains, they'd be protesting having to compete with unnecessary foreign labor.