New York fast food workers strike over low wages [want $15/hr]

guardian.co.uk ^ | Thursday 29 November 2012 19.32 EST | Gizelle Lugo

[eyedigress]

I’ll take it up.

Snarky, I started at .02 a bale 14 years old. I learned early in life to get smarter and work just as hard. I finally made it to minimum wage @ 3.15.

I am now at the 60-75k range because of hard work and paying attention. Do you not see that Bronco is killing this initiative?

[SamAdams76]

I used to work in fast food...like when I was 16 and living at home with my parents. It was a way for me to get experience in the working world and have some pocket money to buy sneakers and Led Zeppelin albums. Yes, that was back in the 1970s.

I'll never understand the mindset that one should be able to support a household by working an entry-level low skill job.

The typical McDonalds job of slinging fries or taking orders should only last a few months. After that, you should either be a shift supervisor or find some some other higher skilled job.

No knock against a career at McDonalds. Many have gone from flipping burgers to owning/operating a chain of restaurants and becoming millionaires in the process.

[TexasTransplant]

Trust me... for $15 an hour I could get “You want Fries with that” down pat

I’d work full time (do I still get the Obama Phone if I work?)

TT

[Cronos]

flipping burgers is not a specialized skill. I'm sorry workers, but you can easily be replaced by people who would want the job at the same rate

easily

[Cronos]

I was reading an article about wage comparison between Mexico and China in factory workers -- semi-skilled laborers in particular

in China, this went up from 0.3 dollars per hour to 1.51 from 2001 to 2011

People vote with their feet and employers have to raise salaries based on the market (supply and demand)

[rwfromkansas]

Midland.