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Wage Strikes Planned at Fast-Food Outlets in 100 Cities
NY Times ^ | 12-1-13 | STEVEN GREENHOUSE

Posted on 12/01/2013 3:12:04 PM PST by dynachrome

Backers of the movement for higher pay point to studies saying that the average age of fast-food workers is 29 and that more than one-fourth are parents raising children.

Simon Rojas, who earns $8.07 an hour working at a McDonald’s in South Central Los Angeles, said he would join Thursday’s one-day strike. “It’s very difficult to live off $8.07 an hour,” said Mr. Rojas, 23, noting that he is often assigned just 20 or 25 hours of work a week. “I have to live with my parents. I would like to be able to afford a car and an apartment.”

Mr. Rojas said he had studied for a pharmacy technician’s certificate, but he had been unable to save the $100 needed to apply for a license.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aflcio; evilcorporations; mcdonalds; minimumwage; strike; unions
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To: Little Ray

I’m sure it’s short time before we’re ordering and paying via smartphone for our robotically prepared grub. There will be 2 employees on each shift, to clean up and receive the incoming stock from the warehouses.


61 posted on 12/01/2013 3:53:38 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: Cloverfarm

You can look at tax law and ObamaCare for that, how is 29 hours counted as “full time”??


62 posted on 12/01/2013 3:53:59 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: nascarnation

Maybe he can do what Venezuela did and institute the 6-hour workday


63 posted on 12/01/2013 3:54:38 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: dynachrome

agree...total BS. living at home with mom (maybe dad) and you can’t save $100??

get another job. if it were that important I’d cut grass again.


64 posted on 12/01/2013 3:54:42 PM PST by ealgeone (obama, border)
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To: Cloverfarm

Edited to add (in addition to the part about screaming for more hours)... if you figure in that they are probably eligible for Medicaid, Food Stamps and housing assistance ... they should be OK. Not rich but OK-ish.


65 posted on 12/01/2013 3:55:51 PM PST by Cloverfarm (This too shall pass ...)
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To: Vendome

“You just know he has an IPhone with a fancy case and awesome headphones.”

I’ll bet my ass you still won’t throw away money like that even though you can now.


66 posted on 12/01/2013 3:57:08 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: Cloverfarm
They probably are all screaming for more hours but management wants to keep them part-time.

Then maybe they should say it. This idiotic screeching has been going on for several months and so far all I hear is gimmie more money. Its a damn starter job and only a moron would believe they should make a living at it.
67 posted on 12/01/2013 3:57:30 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: nascarnation

I’ll have to use the kiosk - my phone is a flip-top. But I can see it now “McDonalds - scan here to download the app!”


68 posted on 12/01/2013 3:58:39 PM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: cripplecreek

meanwhile the SEIU-paid protesters are likely getting paid less that day than the jobs they are protesting


69 posted on 12/01/2013 4:00:45 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: VerySadAmerican

And I’d bet he still thinks Obama is the greatest president ever.

Don’t be ridiculous! Obama is not the president of Mexico.


70 posted on 12/01/2013 4:00:54 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: nascarnation
I’m sure it’s short time before we’re ordering and paying via smartphone for our robotically prepared grub. There will be 2 employees on each shift, to clean up and receive the incoming stock from the warehouses.

Hell, that sounds like a job I would be willing to do.
71 posted on 12/01/2013 4:01:00 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: dynachrome

It would seem to me that, if $100 was all that standing between him being dependent and him being indeendent and gainfully employed, the father would consider it money well sent to just give him the money.


72 posted on 12/01/2013 4:01:15 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: ToastedHead

Idiot loser is the only one holding himself back.

Dude needs a dream. Something that compells him to aspire for more.

More for his kid at least.

I don’t have kids but, if I ever did I wouldn’t make just the money I do now.

I’d make enough to put the little punk in private school, fund his college and a decent dowry if he ever married.

But, that punk would have to work for whatever he wanted.

Need money ti date girls? Gotta job fer you.

Need to go on an awesome vacation with the other sophomores? Here’s some stuff for you take care of.

Gotta learn em the value of aspirations and werk...


73 posted on 12/01/2013 4:01:45 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: dynachrome
Have fun with your little day off, Senor Red.

Next time I'll spend my money on fast food is to see the new robots make my Pink Slime pellets.

74 posted on 12/01/2013 4:02:20 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Little Ray


These things are huge in Japan. No reason why most of the stuff from McDonalds cant easily be done the same way here.
75 posted on 12/01/2013 4:02:30 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

It will, sooner or later it will


76 posted on 12/01/2013 4:03:03 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: GeronL

I’m not sure about that one.

Here in Indy, when they advertise on Craigslist for astroturfers, they “claim” to pay 8.50/hr.


77 posted on 12/01/2013 4:04:04 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: cripplecreek
My nephew got a minimum wage job at Best Buy just to help make ends meet while he went to the local junior college. Once he had all the credits he could transfer to a four year degree, he gave them notice and told them his plans.

Because he simply showed up for work on time and did the best job that he could, they asked him not to quit as they would arrange a transfer to the Best Buy nearest his new out of state campus. They did and he made the transfer. They want him in their store management program after he graduates.

I don't know whether Best Buy is just an unusually good outfit to work for or if kids like my nephew are that hard to find these days.

When I was a pup (early 1970s when the largest number of boomers were entering the workforce), you had to hustle to even get a McDonald's type job.

78 posted on 12/01/2013 4:06:15 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: VanDeKoik

The Japs will vend anything. A loooong time back, I remember someone setting up a meat vending machine.


79 posted on 12/01/2013 4:06:42 PM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: dynachrome

What are they bitching about? They’ve all got “free” Obamaphones, don’t they?>


80 posted on 12/01/2013 4:07:00 PM PST by Gritty (You can't fix crazy any more than you can fix stupid. Obamacare was never going to work.-Steve Deace)
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