[SeekAndFind]

Because surly, lackadaisical service is just what customers love!

But restaurant industry officials and lawyers who represent the industry said the proposal was just the latest stratagem employed by a national union that has been trying to organize fast-food workers ever since they first staged protests for better wages and working conditions in 2012.

The Service Employees International Union adopted the workers’ Fight for 15 campaign, which spurred New York and other cities and states to raise minimum wages to $15 an hour and in some places higher.

“We’re always skeptical about any efforts by the S.E.I.U., that they’re really anything more than a front to help them increase their dues-paying membership and their political agenda,” said Matthew Haller, an executive with the International Franchise Association in Washington. Read the rest of this story, if you can. It's a blend of economic self-interest, labor union tub-thumping, social justice crusading, and a good old sob story about workers who got fired for missing a shift, and other such trivial matters. Wait til the downsizing at the burger counter really gets underway in earnest. Then you'll really see some wailing, although not from the kiosks -- and not from the customers, either.

[griswold3]

Social Justice Warriors’ method of guaranteed jobs thru Democratic Socialism. (Who says the State must ‘own the means of production’?)

[bk1000]

Now that some blacks are getting red-pilled, Democrats are importing a new loyal base that cannot attain goals above a minimum wage job. They must be unionized, protected, exalted, and held up as the true beacons of the New American dream: incapable of self-sufficiency at any level and completely dependent on Uncle Sugar. Minimum wage jobs are grunt jobs for young folks just starting out. It was never intended to be a career, and the idea of raising a family if that’s all you can earn is ludicrous, but that’s the loonie left for you.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Poll: 1 in 3 #FightFor15 activists believe movement is related to lowering the age of consent across America

Source: the People’s Cube

[NonValueAdded]

I recently moved from one side of the state to the other and what struck me the most was that customer service folk, whether fast food, convenience, or grocery, are invariably friendly, and not in a phony way. That’s how it should be, but it stood out because it was so rare. And yes, it is a redder county. Might that have something to do with it.

[mjp]

the iron laws of economics once again prove stronger than leftardism

The principles of economics are like the natural laws of physics. They are real and objective and not arbitrary or subjective, because they are based on human nature, the nature of realty, and reason. They cannot be negated or nullified by wishful thinking or utopian fantasies of leftards.

[themidnightskulker]

I had a shop unionize while i was there.

* No new worker protection (Management just made sure ALL paperwork was properly documented)

*HUUUUGE pay raise - .15/hr.

* union mandated insurance that nobody could afford as we paid half.

*worker/ management relations destroyed

*everyone who agitated for union (some long time employees) left within 3 months.

I know the article relates to raising minimum wage; just pointing out how well “improving” the organic market relationship between business and employee works out when “improvements” are imposed.
Sorry for the loosely related rant.

[Fiji Hill]

I have noticed that bus boys are disappearing from restaurants. So thanks, at least in part, to increased costs imposed by government, dirty dishes are now being handled by the waiters and waitresses that handle your food.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Eventually this country will have French levels of insane job protections. That’s what Millenials seem to want, and in the end I don’t see anything that’s going to stop them from doing that.

[bert]

I’ve heard that some got fired for not wearing enough flare

[ssaftler]

Given all these non-union union protections, I see two things happening here:

1) Fast food restaurants become 95% automated, from order taking to order prep to order delivery, with a tech-savvy manager to keep the machines running, and one or two minimum wagers to clean up the tables, empty the trash and see that the floors and bathrooms don’t get disgusting, or

2) The union thugs try to organize these places, in which case option 1 above comes into play.

[Vince Ferrer]

On to the last stage, “get government to put restaurants into food desert areas previously crammed with food choices.”

[econjack]

Any economist could tell you what would happen. Minimum wage laws are aimed at the young, inexperienced, often minority worker. Yet, when the law goes into effect, more often than not, the employer is going to realize he cannot sustain his current staffing level and he is going to have to fire some people. So, who should he fire? It's to his own interest to fire the least experienced worker, who is often young and a minority. On the bright side, those who are no longer working can say:

But, if I could find a job, I'd be making $15/hr.

Little comfort when you can't find a job.