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Local McDonald’s Forced To Close Amid Protest For Higher Wages
CBSlocal ^ | 29 Aug 2013

Posted on 08/29/2013 8:53:01 AM PDT by shove_it

SOUTHFIELD (WWJ/AP) - A local McDonald’s restaurant was forced to close after its employees walked out and hundreds gathered outside to protest for higher wages.

The restaurant on 8 Mile and Lahser roads along the Detroit/Southfield city line was just one location locally where fast food workers are participating in a nationwide “walkout for better wages.”

Over 200 protestors crowded the restaurant, carrying signs that read “We are worth more. Strike for 15,” as in $15 an hour...

(Excerpt) Read more at detroit.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: detroit; mi
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To: rhubarbk

Has been awhile since I’ve darkened Kmart’s door. Last time I swear half an hour after Katrina shops on Bourbon Street were cleaner and more organized.


41 posted on 08/29/2013 9:10:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: shove_it

And....Soon this plot of land will sport a vacant building with small trees growing through the roof.


42 posted on 08/29/2013 9:10:42 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: shove_it

No jobs, no McDonalds. Now wait for the ‘food desert’ complaints about how there is nowhere to eat and no business in da hood!


43 posted on 08/29/2013 9:11:09 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (When anyone says its not about Islam...it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: V_TWIN
If your looking for a goog burger and the 5 guys burger chain is in your area I would recomend it. A little pricey but the food is fresh...............and best of all the staff hasn’t got an attitude, If u know what I mean. ;)

I just want to go where as a white guy, I don't have to worry about saliva sauce being added to my food. If you know what I mean.
44 posted on 08/29/2013 9:11:29 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Who am I to judge homosexuals? That's what the Tony Awards are for.)
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To: shove_it

Were I the manager of that McD’s, every staffer who walked out the door would have been handed pink slips and their final cheque, and barred for life from my store(s). I would NOT ask the staff who were off duty to report until a day or two later, I’d just shut the doors until then.

I would also have adequate security on site in case there was a sudden eruption of “mob-ness”. It’s amazing how well even the feral behave when confronted with armed men.


45 posted on 08/29/2013 9:11:31 AM PDT by Don W (Know what you WANT. Know what you NEED. Know the DIFFERENCE!)
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To: BubbaJunebug

“Robotics....get rid of the fat twerking ass, can speak any known language employees...”


Given their product line , and my knowledge of manufacturing automation, this would not be that difficult.

The biggest problem would be designing a customer operated touch screen so easy to use a cave man could do it as in some areas like Detroit a cave man would have superior intellect.


46 posted on 08/29/2013 9:11:47 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
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To: shove_it

The comments are brutal against the strikers and this is not published CBS Detroit site.


47 posted on 08/29/2013 9:13:52 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: cuban leaf
There is a GREAT all you can eat chinese place by where I work. $4.99 all day.

Do you know how a restaurant has to "purchase" to be able to offer "all you can eat" for just $4.99 all day?

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48 posted on 08/29/2013 9:14:29 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: shove_it
All things aside, with obamaflation, $15 an hour is the new minimum wage. With inflation of price for basic necessities, and unimpeded taxation, you'll be lucky to outrun inflation, let alone being able to keep more than 1/3rd of your pay after the IRS gets through with you.
49 posted on 08/29/2013 9:15:49 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: left that other site
he only obnoxious smart-alec robot I have ever encountered was in the Woody Allen Movie “Sleeper” LOL.

You never heard of Marvin the depressed robot in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?

Marvin: Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust or just fall apart where I'm standing?

50 posted on 08/29/2013 9:17:46 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

$12 for lunch at McDonalds. WOW! That’s more than going to Five Guys.


51 posted on 08/29/2013 9:17:50 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: shove_it
“We are worth more. Strike for 15,” as in $15 an hour...

My first job was at Kentucky Fried Chicken and I got $1.35 per hour.

My next job was working in a hospital for $3.39 per hour. And I bought a new car, paid for my wedding and saved for a down payment on a house.

These people ought to just shut up.

52 posted on 08/29/2013 9:17:58 AM PDT by Slyfox (Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
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To: shove_it

There’s a spirit flitting around in this world that comes to “kill, steal, and destroy” [paraphrase].

That’s what these unions have latched onto. It lies and tells the unions that it is power. Power alright... to ruin stuff. In general to get in God’s face... a God who desires earnestly to bless. A really spiritually stupid thing for the unions to get involved with... but this is the age old choice of repentance (or not, and if so, when) from the folly of the Garden.


53 posted on 08/29/2013 9:18:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Old Yeller

“don’t have to worry about saliva sauce being added to my food. If you know what I mean.”

I do know what you mean, thats whats so great about 5guys, the food is prepared right out front where you can watch every step.


54 posted on 08/29/2013 9:18:05 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: radec

When I was in a wholesale business in Florida in the 80s, during the bad economic periods, I had some (retail) customers that had a strange understanding of economics.

Business got slow, profits down, so they *raised* their prices. Their “logic” was that since selling fewer items, they had to make more on each item. Want to know how well that worked?

Once, for an experiment, I offered to cut my price if they would cut theirs also & work on a smaller margin. No takers.


55 posted on 08/29/2013 9:18:28 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: reg45

please see my post #44


56 posted on 08/29/2013 9:18:48 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: econjack
The judge was stupid enough to say that "it's the cost of being a citizen". Really? If my beliefs and my religion prevent me from sanctioning gay marriage, where does it say in the Constitution the gov't has the right to force me to subvert my beliefs? Oh...wait...this administration has tossed out the Constitution.

Amen, econjack. Welcome to post-constitutional America. We still have private property, but government manages each and every least, last aspect of it for its own benefit.

57 posted on 08/29/2013 9:19:31 AM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: reg45

sorry, i meant post 22


58 posted on 08/29/2013 9:20:35 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Slyfox

Nothing wrong with negotiations per se, but it would work far better if done in the RIGHT spirit and not in the WRONG one. There ought to be MORE sweetheart deals, in fact where EVERYBODY is a sweetheart... dig?


59 posted on 08/29/2013 9:21:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: shove_it; econjack

Oh, but they do. You just don’t realize it when they conscript your taxes to pay for their Obamaphones, EBT cards and other transfer payments which enable them to buy food you can’t afford and drive off with it in cars you can’t afford.


60 posted on 08/29/2013 9:21:48 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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