Posted on 07/30/2014 1:29:30 PM PDT by jazusamo
Once again, one man has dictated a major change of federal law that can cost American families dearly.
It may double the price of your Big Mac, Whopper, fried chicken, donuts or other purchases at your local fast-food restaurant.
Where’s the beef coming from? Surprise! This time it’s neither President Obama nor Attorney General Eric Holder who is twisting the law like a pretzel from Auntie Anne’s. It’s Obama appointee Richard Griffin, the president’s hand-picked choice for the all-powerful position as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Mr. Griffin has declared that millions of Americans who work for franchise restaurants aren’t merely employees of the business owners, regardless of what their paychecks and the tax records say. Reversing decades of clear legal precedents, he declares that from now on they are the “joint” employees of McDonald’s and the other big franchise companies as well as the local store owners.
Now the big labor bosses no longer would face the challenge of trying to organize each separate restaurant into a local bargaining unit. They can go after all staff at all the Pizza Huts, all the KFC’s or all the Starbucks at the same time.
Never mind that local franchisors hire and fire their own people. Mr. Griffin treats the operations as though they are identical photo-copies from a FedEx Kinko’s franchise.
The unions’ top goal is to double starting pay from the minimum wage of $7.25 a hour to $15 an hour. Expect the price of a burger and fries to be super-sized along with the wages. The Service Employees International Union and United Food and Commercial Workers already have extensive multimillion-dollar corporate pressure campaigns up and running, which they call the Fight for 15.
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It would seem so to me and all due to a stacked Rat NLRB.
It’ll be fought out in the courts but like it mentioned, it’ll take years.
For getting very basic orders, the past several times we have eaten at fast food places, the bill has been at least $15 or more for two people.
Even with the high prices on groceries, one could easily get enough ground beef, buns, frozen French fries to feed 4-6 people for $15. Sometimes convenience is worth a little extra, but if you have a family group, they are not going to McDonald’s or Burger King and drop $10-12 per person or more just for burgers and fries.
Millions of fast food workers are going to end up unemployed, IMHO.
One of the basics I learned in my one business management class in college was that more money for the employee does NOT equal a better product. Unions exist to keep crappy workers employed and to enrich Rats campaign coffers and to make a few of the top union leaders rich.
“..it gives way to knowing that more money does not a better worker or product make.”
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It NEVER has been about a better product. It is about BUYING VOTES and more extortionist control. Just like Obamacare. SOS.
That's what I don't understand about this. Why are fast food workers so fast to jump on this band wagon? They've got to know that all it will do is cost them their jobs. NO ONE is going to pay $20 for a Happy Meal!
Expect robotic fast food in no time!
“It’ll be fought out in the courts but like it mentioned, it’ll take years.”
There will be an injunction filed and will quietly disappear, as will the NLRB’s records.
Not while the unions run the NLRB.
Fast Food is not an inelastic commodity. If they increase the prices 30%, sales will drop by a lot more than that. People have a lot of choices about food.
Does it mean that when someone sues one of the franchises and wins the burger-flipper has to pay, also? ;-)
It’s SO Bad that McDonald’s is already Advertising the 1 Oz Burger.
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I expect this will digress to a GMO grain bun (to keep The Mooch happy) with a cow-shaped soy patty (hopefully a ‘beef’ cow, not a dairy one) in the middle - maybe a leaf or two of arugula ..... $10.
Sadly presidents have a “gentlemen’s agreement” and rarely undo a previous EO.
What this nonsense really boils down to, is nothing more than fascism, of which there are five aspects:
1. strong central government
2. government control of business
3. repression of expression
4. state exalted above individual
5. personality cult of the leader
As a corollary to 2) the owner is still permitted to own his business — at the sufferance of the state.
May the political activist members of the NLRB disappear also.
Expect your food served with rudeness, snarling, and downright in-your-face “I dare you, whitey!” attitude. Just like you get at most food services at any eastern seaboard airport eatery.
Oh well. No more fast food joints—and no more employment in that sector, which will be wiped out.
I have personal knowledge that McDonald’s and other fast food operators have been working on automated food production for some time. McDonald’s already has robotic beverage machines for the drive-thru lane.
Some of these fast food workers do not understand economics. So they figure they will get a raise, and don’t think about their bosses having to raise prices to compensate. And don’t think about what happens when prices rise, and what that does to the customer base.
I miss the rule of law.
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