Posted on 07/30/2013 12:52:55 PM PDT by kevcol
EAST ST. LOUIS, IL (KTVI) – The morning shift at a Metro-East McDonald’s started Tuesday with protests and a heavy police presence.
The crowd gathered and almost immediately started chanting: “We can’t survive on 8-25!”
Both the driving rain and the predawn darkness were not enough to keep striking workers off the McDonald`s parking lot on 25th and State Streets in East St. Louis. Just in time for the 6 a.m. breakfast rush, workers demanded a pay increase to $15 an hour. That would be up from the Illinois state minimum wage of $8.25.
“I’m barely making it, barely” said McDonald’s employee Jamiya Little, still chanting under a soaked red slicker. “I’m late on car payments. I’m late on late on everything. This is not enough.”
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About a dozen officers asked the protestors to leave the dining room, then the property.
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Some simple photo-shop circles showing (1)”obama phones”, (2) $50-coifs and (3) $50-tats should be sufficient to call these slackers out.
Well...
it ain’t lit, mah bruthah!
I’m late on car payments.” and she’s probably late with her period again as well.
“I’ve heard that East St. Louis is a bad neighborhood. Not just parts of it but the whole city.”
Yup! I got a call yesterday to go fix a roof in east st louis. I have done some work over there selectively, but after Trayvon’s shooter being acquitted, no way.
When funding for a new Busch Stadium was still up in the air, the Cardinals made some noise about moving to East St. Louis.
Some Missouri official got in hot water for making a crack about how they’d have to hold Body Armor Night.
“” “I’m late on car payments.”
But not late on the cell phone, and cable TV?
Because they shut THEM off fast : )
Close the store for a week and see what happens to their car payment.
Perhaps has Obamaphone and govt subsidized $10/mo high speed internet.
Seriously, my cell phone bill is $35 a month
My sister, who works part time, pays $150 a month
That’s not a crack, that’s the truth.
Even when I did go over there, I would never work past 2 pm.
Looks like a bunch of entitled Holder’s people.
These “protestors” should develop some marketable job skills, and then apply for a higher paying job.
Zing!
I wouldn’t doubt it.
Feeding time at the Mac_Zoo. Didn’t Ma Moochelle give the order to eat healthy at veggie burger joints only? Try finding a good paying job at one of those—if you can even find one of those to work at.
These kinds of bigotted comments make FR look and smell like the fecal matter that spew them.
Moderator, do your job.
Wow. What a snapshot of 2013 America.
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