Posted on 04/23/2015 1:27:29 AM PDT by kingattax
Under the direction of new CEO Steve Easterbrook, who took the corporate helm on March 1st, McDonald’s is “finally deciding to give some of its workers a raise,” the Huffington Post declares in an article from April 1st. McDonald’s had just announced its commitment to “give employees a 10% increase in wages” just “two weeks ahead of a planned international strike organized by the movement Fight for $15, which urges fast food employers to pay workers a minimum wage of $15 per hour.”
Despite the context in which the media (and pretty much everyone else) frames the decision, according to the Wall Street Journal, the company insists that the “increasingly vocal” criticisms by labor groups and recent protests “weren’t a factor in its decision.”
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The Hamburglar is happy.
Mcdonalds doesn’t own very may restaurants. They are franchises. And franchisees pay what they want.
I'm sure the ex-employees of the closed restaurants will love their 10% pay raise. NOT.
Are they talking about $15 and hour for management and supervisor types or snotty nose kids just out of puberty, still in high school working part-time asking me if I want two apple pies for a dollar?
It doesn’t appear McDonald’s is motivated to attract better employees. As a McDonald’s shareholder, that’s something I would definitely applaud, as their service is typically bad. No. McDonald’s appears to be offering higher wages for no good reason at all. McDonald’s is literally taking from me, an investor, to give more to low skill employees. Why? So McDonald’s corporation can get a pat on the back from the left. LOL! Again, no! The left will only demand more.
The $15 dollar an hour crowd are mind numbed robots controlled by activist handlers with ivy league educations. $15 is not about parity or equity, $15 is just more chaos and hubris where everyone suffers for the benefit of the few.
Dang! I thought the headline was talking about the caves owned by McDonalds! I wanted to see where they dredged up some of their workers.
;-)
So, McDonald’s decided to pay minimally skilled workers more than they are worth, and now it is closing hundreds of restaurants.
I guess all that money to pay high school kids as if they are college graduates didn’t just appear out of thin air, did it?
It will all be moot pretty soon. More and more fast food restaurants are replacing their low-info workers via automation. It is much more efficient to enter your own order on a keypad (either on the restaurant’s kiosk or, increasingly, on your own smart phone or tablet) rather than trying to explain your order to a semi-literate clerk.
They can now afford to eat there every other week.
Keep up with the times. It's folks who appear to be ilegales who don't speak coherent English.
I know a guy that installs CATV,climbs poles summer winter crawls in attics and crawl spaces puts up with scum in the hood and filthy living conditions and bitching customers.Configures fiber optic switches,end user modems and peoples computers,all types,and so much more and makes just around 15.
These people at Mc D’d don’t EARN 15 bucks an hour and its all about Earning
The Left targeted McDonalds and Walmart from the outset, to make examples of them. I’m not a big fan of McDonalds food (except for breakfast), but its clear to me that the media’s constant attacks on them have created a negative marketing campaign that has taken a toll on profits.
So far, they are closing 700+ stores.
That is a way to pay higher wages without raising prices.
Ignore the fact about the newly unemployed. LOL
Sad thing is that many of those workers aren’t high school kids anymore.
This will cave THEM! When you are in trouble, give even your most worthless employees a raise? They need to give the workers incentive. If the store does well,nthe get paid more, if it doesn’t do well, they lose money. What I am seeing these is they don’t even try to make a difference...no “thank you’s” almost like you are intruding in their space. And you “reward” this. Disaster coming.
The answer to your question is...
“snotty nose kids just out of puberty, still in high school working part-time asking me if I want two apple pies for a dollar?”
This is a union driven thing, though...has nothing to do with “living wage”. Union wages are a multiple of minimum wage. Union membership has dropped over time. Union dues are based on employee wages, follow the money.
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