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Low income workers march in Detroit for $15 minimum wage
Kim Russell ^ | 12 FEBRUARY 2018 | WXYZ.COM

Posted on 02/12/2018 4:49:40 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

DETROIT (WXYZ) - On this day in history, 50 years ago, black sanitation workers marched in Memphis protesting unsafe working conditions and low wages. Protesters marked the day by marching in front of a McDonald's in Detroit.

Low income workers including cooks, cashiers, janitors, and hospital workers marched with their supporters from the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial park— to the McDonald’s on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit.

“We hope to have our voices heard and have some of our needs meet, so we can make it in society in this economy,” said Darrell Bonner, Lead Custodian Detroit Public Schools Community District.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: astroturf; detroit; incometaxes; mcdonalds; michigan; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

And I seriously doubt any of the people whinging for a $15/hr minimum wage will be installing and/or servicing the kiosks that will replace them. God, these people are ignorant.


21 posted on 02/13/2018 4:03:19 AM PST by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Fools doing the bidding of those who want to oppress them.

Minimum wage is one of the most insidius ways to keep a population poor and oppressed. It drives away jobs, and hurts most the most vulnerable in our society: the young and the elderly.

Minimum wage is Not a living wage. It is a starting wage, a supplemental wage.

If they want more money the should ask for a raise.


22 posted on 02/13/2018 8:37:58 AM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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To: dforest; freedumb2003
Automation in McDonald's makes sense - the process is already so heavily standardized they just need to make it make financial sense

Instead of cashiers, the touchscreens are cheaper. Next, a machine to put together your burger and fries.

They need to slim down the menu further, but I'm going to guess that by 2020 you will have close to fully automated McDonald's places.

23 posted on 07/17/2018 12:43:59 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: dforest

>>McDonalds workers will soon be replaced with automation. This will hasten the automation.<<

Someone should introduce them to the concept of marginal cost. If a robot costs $12 an hour (all in), then a human is the correct economic choice until the human costs $12 an hour — all things being equal a robot is better.

AFTER that decision makes itself. At $15 a $12 robot becomes cheap.


24 posted on 07/17/2018 4:14:37 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("please pass the winnamins" (/Principled on 6/27/2018))
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To: Cronos

At DFW they have gone to all kiosks in the MacDonalds.


25 posted on 07/17/2018 4:17:04 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("please pass the winnamins" (/Principled on 6/27/2018))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Ummm, Detroit. Might wanna give DC a call on this subject. :-)


26 posted on 07/17/2018 4:17:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

I’m amazed at how there is such a lack of intelligence on this. If you don’t like your job, get another one. If you are disruptive at your job, you’ll lose it. Except when unions are involved, which is was too often, I don’t think the employees set the standards. Two weeks notice, look at monster.com.

rwood


27 posted on 07/17/2018 4:36:12 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: freedumb2003

The same here in Warszawa.


28 posted on 07/17/2018 4:41:06 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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