Posted on 05/11/2013 12:02:04 PM PDT by mdittmar
Fast food workers at more than 60 restaurants in Detroit walked off the job Friday. This may be the largest fast food strike in American history, involving more than 400 workers from McDonald's, Long John Silver's, Burger King, Popeyes and KFC. Some locations were forced to shut down. At issue is workers' right to form a union and an increase in base pay to a minimum of $15 per hour.
Pastor W.J. Rideout III, a leader in Detroit’s Good Jobs Now coalition, said the organic action was a result of a long history of mistreatment of fast food workers:
“They’ve been wronged in so many ways, it really doesn’t take much coaching to say, hey, we’re going to organize together, we’re going to stand up together,” he said.
“There are 50,000-plus fast food employees in the Detroit metro area…and they’re not even giving them the proper amount of hours,” Rideout said. “At 40 hours a week, they’re making about $15,000 a year, and they’re not even getting 40 hours a week.” Instead, managers hire many employees on an exclusively part-time basis. “Some of them are getting between 15 and 20 hours a week, and that’s barely enough to pay a cellphone bill.”
Reports are coming in that one McDonald's called in replacement workers, some of whom then joined the strike.
The strike in Detroit follows on the heels of similar actions in New York, Pennsylvania, Chicago and St. Louis.
Will anybody pay that much?
Fast food prices have risen enough this past year that a person takes pause before diving into the burgers and french fries. I say it has reached the price peak.
Consumer price increases for basic necessities have out outpaced low end wages for some time now. Obama has failed the lower class yet they continue to love and vote for felon.
$31,200 a year for saying “Would you like fries with that”,not bad,if you can get it;)
The problem is that fast food jobs are no longer what they were supposed to be. The majority of the jobs were to be part time jobs held by students and housewives looking for extra income. Now because our children have been taught that these jobs are demeaning and beneath them they have turned into sole income for the illegals and uneducated. So now they are demanding a living wage that will destroy the industry since very few, and certainly not the employees will be able to afford the food.
Wow.........what does a burger cost in Detroit? $20 a burger?
Interesting that we haven’t heard the term “McJobs” in the media since Jan 2009.
One wonders if the guards that will be hired to protect the property against Trumka’s terrorists will be union?
Will the terrorists be shot during their violent rampages?
Will the terror spread across the city?
why don’t they just change jobs? Is this the only employer left?
...will they ever learn?
I may have gone to a fast food place maybe 2 times in the past 4 months. Generally, I bring leftovers to work and nuke them in the company lunchroom. When we go on trips, I just pack some cheese and cold cuts in a cooler, rather than stopping at a fast food place.
This just increases the incentive to automate more. The sandwich counter at my local convenience store does a brisk business. They have touch screens where you enter your order, so they just need somebody to make the sandwich.
Once somebody figures out how to make a robot that can make burgers and fries, these fast-food workers are gone.
Interesting that Obama went to Texas to talk about "jobs", period.
Haven't heard much from Plugs about "Recovery Summer 2013", after the results of "Recovery Summers 2009 - 2012."
15 hours at $7.50 per hour works out to $105 per week, $400+ per month.
If their cell-phone bill is anywhere near that, they need to hang-up and get to work.
That’s assuming they don’t have free 0bamaphones.
Likely they not only have Obamaphones, but Section 8 housing, “energy” assistance, food stamps, TANF, medicaid, school lunch, 10 dollar high speed internet, etc
http://www.benefits.gov/benefits/benefit-finder#benefits&qc=cat_1
I always thought organic meant that its source of growth stimulation came from BS.
Had to quit,couldn't wait 2 years,the manager was disappointed.
Always had a strong work ethic,always found a good job.
As Rush says, the best way to illustrate absurdity is to be absurd. I like it!
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