Posted on 12/05/2013 8:40:49 AM PST by RS_Rider
Dozens of people gathered outside Dunkin Donuts and McDonald's locations Downtown on Thursday morning to protest low wages as part of a national campaign energizing fast-food workers.
Carrying placards and shouting slogans such as “No justice, no doughnuts,” about 75 people rallied in front of the Dunkin Donuts in Market Square and the nearby McDonald's on Stanwix Street.
The actions are part of push by labor unions, worker advocacy groups and Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage of $7.25. President Obama says he would back a minimum wage of $10.10 an hour, and on Wednesday addressed income equality in a speech.
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Instead of protesting that fast food business pay them more they should get their own fast food business and pay themselves what ever they want, $15, $25, $50 per hour. Why depend on someone else = do it yourself.
If you worked for me back in the day and no showed for work or called in sick, and then were seen “protesting” outside the store you earned a fast track ticket to the unemployment line. There were too many employees who wanted to work and wanted the hours for me to hold on to deadwood, but then 99% of these “strikers” are union paid outsiders.
Jobs disappear, purchasing power declines, and just maybe this triggers the hyper-inflation that’s been building out there ever since the Fed started papering over the deficits with “Quantitative Easing.”
All of these economic “experts” that claim raising the Fast Food worker pay to $15 would have no effect on jobs are idiots with no real world experience. I can speak definitively from 22 yrs. experience that every time the minimum went up, staffing levels and hours went down, prices went down and profits went down.
That's where I'm baffled. There seem to be more "help wanted" signs in retail businesses and better franchise restaurants that start at $10 or more an hour than in those places that pay minimum wage. The good workers can move to a better situation or at least one that promotes from within. Add to that, if US citizens' wages weren't depressed by invader and other non-citizen labor, supply and demand would cause wages to increase.
I remember when I graduated from Tech school in 1983 and one of my classmates was leaving his job at McDonalds and offered to “get you in” to a couple of us. Times were really bad in Pittsburgh at that time and the offer was not taken lightly.
The actions are part of push by labor unions, worker advocacy groups, Communists and Democrats ...
fixed it.
That particular McDonalds was recently busted for being a major drug selling site. I’m thinking that the workers were and probably still are making much more than minimum wage on their “happy meals”.
Hell you don’t have to sell drugs as a McD employee to increase your take home. Some one who is saavy enough can keep track of prices in their heads and alter the register after taking the money they can build a healthy bank. This was being in one store I know of and the thief was actually teaching his share the wealth technique to others.
The franchise owner should just paste a “NOW HIRING” sign inside the windows and doors...See how many of the real “protestors” panic.....
I remember when I graduated from Tech school in 1983 and one of my classmates was leaving his job at McDonalds and offered to “get you in” to a couple of us. Times were really bad in Pittsburgh at that time and the offer was not taken lightly.
When I first went to work for McD in the mid 70’s it was actually fun, you worked hard but we had over a hundred hourly employees on the schedule, then came the laugh if you will, burger wars and waves of minimum wage increases. When I left in 98 I had a total of maybe forty hourly employees in the same store trying to keep the same high standards as in 1976. It’s just not possible as I see in almost ever Mcd’s I visit, rarely, the norm is now something I would have lost my job for.
The Union will force up their wages to $10.00 an hour and charge them $3.00 of that to join the Union.
Can you think of anything worse than a union made Big Mac?
On second thought, that may be the only way to make that sandwich worse than it is now.
How many are paid protesters and what are they getting paid per hour?
“NO JUSTICE, NO PIZ-ZA!”
Dozens? Dozens? This is clearly a mass movement!
It would take 6,000 Tea Partiers to get this much press attention in downtown Pittsburgh.
Shouldn't they be at work?
I remember a photo the local paper ran of a “die-in” protest at the start of the Iraq war. It was cropped to show three 20-ish kids in “death poses” with a caption citing “protestors” without trying to number them. I was watching from across the street and was tempted to offer to take the photo so that all four of them could be in the shot. Unsurprisingly, at least one of the participants was a newspaper employee.
I use them for Constipation.
When I get constipated I get a Big Mac and within a half hour I am moving.
Bingo, but fire them to the crowd of protesters, and immediately offer their jobs to some protesters who would take the jobs!!
When I was between my junior and senior years in high school, my family was poor, so I worked as a car hop on the weekends for 65 cents an hour, plus tips, and then washed dishes at a restaurant for $1.10 an hour. I needed the money to buy my school clothes and help my single mom out - so that I wasn’t a burden on her. I was thrilled to have both paychecks and I had no skills at that time. The $1.10 an hour job included washing the pans from the cafeteria. That was back breaking, but I did it. I worked 7 days a week too. I loved my jobs - or should I say the money? A little of both I guess.
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