Posted on 05/15/2014 6:19:16 AM PDT by Biggirl
Greenville, Pitt County-Fast-food workers in Greenville held a strike on Thursday demanding a raise in pay. Strikers want a $15 an hour minimum wage. The fast-food employees from McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King also want to form a union without retaliation.
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Let's see how much you make when people refuse to pay 10 dollars for a burger they used to get for 2 dollars.
Fire them all.
I have two words for them. “Crock Pot”.
They are demonstrating why they are only making minimum wage.
Saw a bunch of idiots “on strike” outside the McDonald’s on 7th Ave and 28th Street in NYC this morning. I doubt many (if any) actually work for the McDonald’s.
Just a show by Big Labor/Big Marxism.
If fast food workers have skills worth $15 an hour, they should have no problem finding someone to hire them at that wage. If not, they should be glad they have a job paying whatever they are getting, and look to acquire some marketable skills that will bring in more income.
Is it McDonald’s, BK, KFC and Taco Bell’s fault that you cut class, smoked weed and dropped out of high school, instead of putting in a minimal amount of effort?
Even at $15 per hour, I bet they still can’t get a simple order correct.
And besides a job in the “fast food” industry is not supposed to be a career, so boo frickin hoo that they struggle to make ends meet. Go back to school, get your GED and find a REAL job.
I say go for it. Next thing gov’t bailout like GM
People in hell want ice water......
Perhaps these low wage workers need a lesson in economics. Then they will see why they make such low wages........It was their choices..........
Best sales job today would be selling automated fast food service machines.
I have no problem with a State or City setting a minimum wage. I do NOT want to see a Federal Minimum Wage.
I have two words for them, as well, and they sure as heck ain’t ‘Crock Pot’!..............
The current group of workers with low/no job skills will be handed pink slips.
“Fire them all”
If any of them actually work there, they might well be fired.
But, this has the stench of a Big Labor, “strikers for hire” media show. I’d be willing to be you anything from the value menu that 90% or more of the picketers are paid union activists, probably being paid less by the union thugs than the real fast food workers are paid.
There already is..........................and no government should tamper with wages, city, county or state....................
Was there not a famous strike in the Carolinas years ago wherein the textile workers went on strike and when they went back to work after getting some kind of agreement, the companies had moved production off shore and closed the plants?
As a practical matter, I don’t care if they do get paid $15 or more dollars an hour, if employed. But if the companies can replace them for less, so be it, it is called supply and demand.
I knew a guy once who told me he got something like $50 an hour, which was an enormous wage at that time. His one problem is he found about one hour a work a week at that rate during tax season doing a return for some dope who paid him that much. The usual fee then was closer to $15.
I can’t make up my mind who I should root against more in these stories. We have the fools who think making processed food product deserves $15 an hour. We have the multinational mega corps who gave us shit on a bun like the McRib and tacos with sand as an ingredient. And then we have the consumer...Boobus Americanus...who eagerly supply the sales of said shit on buns and sandy tacos.
Figure 10.00 for a mid-range combo meal, rent runs between 2500.00 and 3,000.00/month (plus utilities for a 2-bedroom apartment), and a sit-down meal in most any restaurant for two is at minimum $50.00.
It isn't so bad if someone in the household has an oilfield job, but it's still nothing to live on. If you want to go into food services, get a job that makes tips...
So they get their $15 an hour minimum wage. What will happen? Prices go up. Customers can’t afford the higher prices, so they stay away in droves. Restaurant can’t afford to stay in business, so it closes. How nice will that $15/hour feel when these idiots lose their jobs?
Trading their long-term livelihood for a very temporary, short-term advantage (higher paycheck) and a future of unemployment.
The minimum wage spiral is a dragon that feeds on its own tail. Supposedly put in place to ‘mitigate’ the ravages of inflation, the minimum wage itself exacerbates the very worst effects of inflation. By pricing itself out of the market, the cost of labor vastly diminishes the demand for the same. Those entrepreneurs that attempt to function in such an environment do not hire replacement workers, but keep on the old experienced workers, thus blocking the young and inexperienced from ever entering the competition for jobs. Or they place ever greater workloads upon the remaining workers, thus keeping productivity up to provide for their continued future existence.
For this, the greater productivity can be rewarded with much fatter paychecks to the remaining workers, but the problem remains of what to do with the young and restless unemployed low-skilled youth, placing ever greater burdens on the social ‘safety net’, which is soon overloaded and fails.
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