Posted on 05/23/2019 11:59:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Democratic presidential contender Julian Castro joined a march to a McDonald’s restaurant in North Carolina on Thursday to draw attention to workers’ efforts to raise the minimum wage and secure other protections.
Nearly all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have expressed support for the idea that the federal minimum wage should be more than doubled, to $15 an hour, and several were joining actions around the country Thursday.
The McDonald’s annual shareholder meeting is also Thursday in Dallas. Striking cooks and cashiers planned to travel to the shareholder meeting, where they’ll attend a video town hall hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders, another Democratic presidential candidate.
Castro, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development and current San Antonio mayor, marched with roughly 200 activists, minimum wage workers and union representatives from a park in Durham to a nearby McDonald’s. He joined them in chants of, “Put some respect in my check,” and “What do we want? 15! When do we want it? Now!”
Workers banged on makeshift drums, waved red flags saying “NC raise up” and carried a giant effigy of McDonald’s cartoon character Ronald McDonald. The march ended in a rally front of a McDonald’s. …
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I assume McDonald’s is the only place Julian can find gainful employment.
He’s basically admitting this publicly.
“No Justice, no peace.
No burgers, no buns.”
About what I’d expect to hear.
Remember when high school kids did these jobs?
Now they think “Manual Labor” is the name of some Mexican guy.
You’re probably right-he doesn’t have enough customer service skills to say “would you like fries with that?” without sounding condescending...
If you are out of your teens, still working at McDonalds and think the path to higher wages is to get McDonalds to pay you more, then yes, you are stupid.
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My 19 year old student son just got a job at W-M at $11.00 per hour stocking shelves. He’s happy as a lark, he knows it’s not going to be his carrier. He’s determined to make it through school with no student loans.
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