Posted on 09/02/2014 6:22:58 AM PDT by Biggirl
NEW YORK (AP) -- McDonald's, Wendy's and other fast-food restaurants are expected to be targeted with acts of civil disobedience that could lead to arrests Thursday as labor organizers escalate their campaign to unionize the industry's workers.
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Sounds like the union thugs are trying to FORCE unwilling fast food workers to join their labor mobs. Unionizing a workplace is quite easy (too easy in fact) if even the smallest majority of employees are in favor of it.
Now there are three and all of them busy. They still hire local kids and juggle schedules. Without exception, the kids are pleasant and polite or they don't last.
Michigan’s governor marched across the Mackinac bridge, a Labor Day tradition, accompanied by a robot. Message sent.
Our failing public education system (plus the continuous drive by business to push jobs offshore to the lowest-wage countries) has created a burgeoning pool of people who feel their status in life is stuck in these jobs.
And if they can’t begin climbing the ladder via education and better job prospects, they’ll climb it via civil disobedience.
The seeds of a Marxist class war have finally been planted in this soil.
these incidents would be one of the very few reasons i would go to these fast food places. though i do wonder how much you can trust the unhappy workers in the store.
Time to forget dialing 911 instead Call a Marine.
With a future revolt as a result.
My prediction is that automated order boards will win out.
CFA is also the best place here as well. Polite, clean, and fast with high quality. I overheard a manager tell one kid that since her grades were not high enough she couldn’t work past 5:00pm. Seems they also help re-enforce priorities.
I am NOT a fan of the shakedown tactics being used on fast food right now. However, we really don’t need fast food. It’s a fact of our spoiled lives that we want it. I’m surprised Queen Michelle hasn’t shut down the fast food industry outright.
Yet another reason for me to not patronize fast food eateries.
Michelle? FAT Michelle?
Can you imagine how the priorities of our high school kids would change if every fast food place in America adopted similar standards?
Grades were never an issue for my kids. In fact, every time they came home for any extended vacation at college, they had a standing invitation from CFA to come in and work, even for a few days or a few hours. They basically gave CFA their available time and a number of hours they wanted to work during that available time and CFA came back with a schedule that fit.
They got about 80% of the hours they wanted because this same courtesy was extended to other CFA employees home from college. Every other fast food joint in town was scrambling to find reliable temps to work the extra hours needed at the holidays, but not CFA.
The kids appreciated the flexibility of management so much that they just walked in and volunteered. My kids worked the morning after they got home without exception. Guess which is still their favorite place to take our grandkids? And ours?
That's building loyalty for three generations.
-PJ
Another fast food place that seems to follow a similar business model is Freddy’s Steakburgers. Not entirely sure about that, but they seem to be having the same results as CFA.
Fast food doesn’t pay well, but how many of their workers want to give up a third of their pay to fat union bosses and their fat union thugs - and take home even less? I feel sorry for the workers if the unions win this fight against the decent people who own the restaurants and the decent people who work there.
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