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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The bulk of ‘em are sporting iphones too....
My question is are these employees unionized? If not, then do they have a right to strike? If not - then fire their butts and hire people who do want to work. There isn’t a shortage of unemployed personnel. But, if they think their job is worth $15 an hour, I have to question their common sense. If they are making $8.25 an hour and getting a 40 hour work week, then their gross is $330 a week - McDonalds pays bi-weekly, I believe. So, if the employer caves to their demands - and cuts their hours in half - at $15 an hour for 20 hours - their gross is only $300 a week.
Guess they haven’t learned simple mathematics in school. What idiots!
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If they paid $15 an hour, do you think they would be hiring those people? Of course not.
Heck NO!
from $8.25 to $15 an hour.....??
What do they think will happen when nobody buys their food ?
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Charlie Ergen is a devout Baraqqi.
Nobody in the media will criticize him.
I don’t think they are actually striking, but rather protesting. And frankly, I doubt that its the workers protesting.
Here’s an idea: Fire all their lazy butts, make college education a hiring requirement and hire people that need to pay off their student loans. Make the student loan pay-off a major incentive for staying on the job.
No college/higher education=no job.
They seem to be looking for an excuse to riot, nothing more.
I thought only when a republican was president that any new job growth were “McJobs”.
I guess the media got THAT memo.
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