Multi-City Strike For Fast Food Minimum Wage Increase: Astroturf?

7/29/2013 | Laissez-Faire Capitalist

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Nancy Pelosi recently spoke publicly on the need for a minimum wage increase. After that, at a recent rally, Obama called for an increase in the minimum wage. During this time, liberal pundits seemed to echo these sentiments. Trying to stoke the base? And then - behold - the rallies demanding an increase in the minimum wage at fast food restaurants are called for.

Astroturf?

Secondly, is this Union-backed and conducted to take attention off how disastrous Obamacare is to unions and how it has divided big unions in the U.S., many of whose leaders appear to have publicly expressed contempt for ObamaCare?

I wonder if Obama is serious enough about this that he is willing to call for the corporate level to offset the franchise owners having to pay double the minimum wage, thus transferring the increse in costs for the local franchisee owner to corporate headquarters. I'll bet that he isn't.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

What say you?

[dfwgator]

The Unions must want a raise....Union contracts are tied to the minimum wage.

[Arm_Bears]

I rarely eat fast-food anymore.

However, on those occasions when I do, I’m convinced that the people taking my order are overpaid at minimum wage.

[BenLurkin]

Astroturf?

Of course.

[unixfox]

If they want to do that then they will have to raise the price of a burger to $15.00.

Good luck staying in buisiness.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Union numbers are dropping, and ObamaCare is only going to amplify this trend. Fast-food workers seem to be the most likely place for unions to try to get their membership numbers up.

[NRA1995]

Too bad people have forgotten that the minimum wage was never intended to support a family of four.

[cripplecreek]

Yeah its asshole turf.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Mark of desperation on the part of the unions. Unless they get more dues money flowing in and quickly, they’re toast.

On the other hand as the Obamaconomy stagnates and more and more adults feel stuck on their rung of the ladder, the natural historical tendency is to radicalize.

It could all work out for the unions.

[Walrus]

Why just fast food workers? Don’t all of us hard-working Americans DESERVE a raise?

Let’s bump that ol’ minimum wage up to $300 an hour. Then we’ll all have lots of money.

[cripplecreek]

I’d set my employees down and tell them they can have their $15 per hour but they have to figure out among themselves who is getting fired and I’d make them decide it right out full view of each other.

[dfwgator]

I’d set my employees down and tell them they can have their $15 per hour but they have to figure out among themselves who is getting fired and I’d make them decide it right out full view of each other.

Now THAT'S a reality show I would watch.

[cripplecreek]

Who gets voted off McDonald’s Island.

[BitWielder1]

Corporations are all infinitely rich, don't you know. /s

Politicians don't understand how to run a business.
Minimum wage is for entry level unqualified labor.
The higher it is, the harder it is for young people to enter the market.
Lower it and there will be less unemployment.
There should not even be a minimum wage set by gov't. Not all jobs are the same.

[RginTN]

Leftists are going to increase the prices of products and what’s unfortunate is most people don’t realize that will happen.

[massgopguy]

$15 an hour comes out to $31K per year. That’s the starting salary of an entry level electronics technician.

[nascarnation]

When I was a kid, and even when my children were teens in the 1990s, fast food was considered “McJobs” and entry level.

In the era of Baraq, now it’s supposed to be a career job and support the mythical “family of four”.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Too bad people have forgotten that the minimum wage was never intended to support a family of four.

Years ago (more than I care to remember) I had a management gig at a minimum-wage establishment. Our HQ sent out some HR hotshot to speak to our employees in an effort to head off any unionization attempts. Part of his spiel was that these jobs "were never intended to support a family, merely to provide additional income to housewives and students".

I looked around the room and noted that 80% of our staff consisted of single mothers who were relying on this job to a large degree to support their families.

After my "don't these guys from headquarters do any research before they fly out here and shoot their mouths off?" tantrum I realized that he was not necessarily wrong so much as society was changing at breakneck speed, and the model on which we had been based was rapidly falling by the wayside.

All those trends greatly accelerated in the years since IMO.

[molson209]

Gas Stations have very good selection of sandwiches these days and with one of their cards you can eat for free