Posted on 05/30/2014 3:23:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
… In 1979, teenagers held 26% of all low-wage jobs, while adults aged 25-64 made up less than half of such workers, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, which analyzed the low wage workforce over a 30-year span. Today, only 12% of low paying jobs are held by teenagers, while adults make up 60% of them. Also, only 20% of such workers had attended some college in 1979. Today, it’s 33%. […]
A key argument behind the latest wave of strikes to raise wages to $15 an hour is that fast food workers these days are no longer just teenagers looking for pocket change. They are mothers and fathers struggling to raise children on wages that are too low, in most cases below poverty level. Research also shows that fast food companies haven’t shared their profits equally among their workers. While the lowest paid have not seen a raise in a long time, the industry’s top management are not only being paid handsomely but have given themselves hefty raises. …
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This is exactly where Obama wants them.
If they are hard-working and prosperous and paying their own bills and living a fine Middle-Class life, they are of no use to the Progressives
Conversely, the Progressives are of no use to anyone, not even themselves. They want to create a dystopia that will eat them last.
If older staff members are hard workers at Mickey D’s they will be moved to management in a VERY short time that IS the TRUTH of the matter!!!
And WHO was president during this shocking decline of quality of jobs? And HOW does a shocking decline in quality of jobs alter the market dynamics affecting the jobs in question? And how is it possible to NOT consider CNN a collection of excuse making damnable idiots?
Anybody remember when Pelosi accused Bush of only creating “McJobs” ?
In the era of Baraq, fast food it the new “breadwinner job”.
#puke
Dre Finley, 24, has a college degree and works at Arby’s for $8.78 an hour. He has a 5-year-old daughter and another baby coming soon.
Dre Finley, 24, works 40 hours a week at Arby’s on Fletcher Avenue, and between 10-12 hours a week across the street at McDonald’s. He says if people didn’t believe that the fast-food workers were serious about getting a raise, they know now (Finley was later one of approximately 100 protesters who were arrested after this interview took place).
“I think it’s so serious, they shut down one of their facilities today,” Finley told CL by phone from Oak Brook early this afternoon. “They were supposed to have a big meeting going on and I think they were afraid and they shut that down.”
Finley has been working at McDonalds for just the past month, where he makes $8.00 an hour. He’s been working a couple of years now at Arby’s, where he makes $8.25. He’s the father of a five-year-old girl and is wife is now pregnant with their second child. This was the third month in a row he was late on his rent payment.
When asked if the fast-food workers demand for a living wage of $15.00 is realistic — particularly when Democrats are calling for the minimum wage to only to go $10.10 an hour, Finley said he believes it is, considering how large a corporation McDonalds is. But he said personally, he’d be quite content to make at least $10 or $11 an hour. “I would settle for that,” he says.
And I bet Tanika voted for Obama twice.
Get a clue, Tanika. Maybe you should be blaming your savior, Barack Hussein Obama, for failing to produce high-paying jobs that you so desire.
Now get back to work and make me a Big Mac.
I don't see anyone who looks like they are starving!
Some of those arrested were uniform-wearing McDonald's employees who had come for the protest from 33 U.S. cities. Also arrested was Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, according to the union. Police could not immediately confirm that. The union is the financial and logistical backer for Fast Food Forward, the group organizing the protests.
Dre Finley, Tampa, Florida
When I was a kid back in the 50s I moved a lumber pile for a guy. It took me several hours and the cheap SOB gave me a nickel. But he also gave me a priceless lesson in negotiating my wages ahead of time.
Bots would get your order right a higher percentage of time and wouldn’t spit in your food or worse.
Electronic voice: “Welcome to Burger Boss! Please select your menu choices from the touch screen of this kiosk. I will prepare your order quickly and hygenically. Thank you for your patronage!”
Let’s not sugarcoat the fact that having children out of wedlock, and prior to receiving said degree, is a sure-fire way of stalling your future.
Having children out of wedlock is the worst as it deprives children of having their daddy living at HOME and being there.
It is also quintessentially selfish and self serving. It shows an amazing degree of lack of self control. It's USUALLY a sign of a fatherless daughter...even worse.
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I will stand by my comment that an AA is not going to advance most people very far in most white-collar professions.
True about the AA degree but, for some reason, that is usually the huge stumbling block for most people. I don't think that high school prepares students for college in any way, shape or form.
The AA is a small, humble degree but one simply CANNOT go into the white collar jobs with out it. So, in the long run, it's huge. TOO many young people think like you do, that the A.A. is small, useless. But, it's like learning to read and write...humble things that a six year old can do. However, those two humble little skills are the gateway to almost ALL learning. So, in fact, they are huge.
I believe that of the oh-so-small-A.A. degree.
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The bachelors is pretty much the standard minimum, and even that, you better be very sure of what your expectations are.
True. I never had ANY other expectations from my parents other than I would eventually be a teacher. LATER I went back for the M.A. and it was SO MUCH easier than the B.A.. Hah, a mere 30 units for the M.A.--piece of cake.
I have a stepdaughter majoring in Dramatic Arts right now. Don’t even get me started...
Lol. She would be a FABULOUS teacher with that degree. Her students would adore her!
When she gets out into the real world, REALITY will catch up with her. If she's got the backbone she can return to school at night and get a degree at something she can use. It would be FAR simpler as she would have all those pesky university "prerequisites" already out of the way.
*My husband went back to school at 29 and got a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California (Berkeley). He simply "wasn't ready" before he was 29.
**My mother went to college WAY back when women did NOT go to college. She got her degree but she never used it. She learned to type and take shorthand and got TONS of work immediately. That was then. Things have changed.
BUT at 55 years old she went back to school AGAIN and took art. She became quite good.
She also took law. At 60 years old she took the California State Bar Exam, passed it the first time (It took Nixon THREE times to pass it.), hung out her shingle and practiced family law for 20 years, retiring finally at 80 years of age.
WOW, my hat is off to your mother! Now THAT’s ambition for you. Dre & Tanika could learn a thing or two from her, I’m guessing! LOL
Guess what what happens when you reward people for having low skills?
Blame the Obama economy. The place where I work has been cutting hours and positions, and restructuring the remaining positions to bring management level jobs down to entry level wages. I also see people walking in all the time leaving resumes showing their college and beyond education seeking basic entry level cashier work. This is the kind of thing that is happening all over the place. There may be some people who are just screw ups with a degree, but there are too many well educated and experienced people out there struggling to get by working jobs for which they are ridiculously overqualified.
What? You mean that doesn't happen?
/johnny
these fast food employees are so stupid they think the Corporations OWN these restaurants! They have no idea about how the business works.
Electronic voice: “Welcome to Burger Boss! Please select your menu choices from the touch screen of this kiosk.
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Sheetz already does that.
You order from touch screen maybe 2 people behind counter and you pay at the regular register line.
NO interaction between orderer and maker...
As to the ‘protesters’ - I am glad to see they can afford the day off and also be able to afford to gather from 33 cities??.. If the Union paying for all this, maybe the EMPLOYED should rethink where the dues are going?
These people will be getting a wake up call when the Happy Meal starts costing 10+ bucks and people decide to cook up a burger at home...
Kind of like a bar raising its bottle/can beer prices to where it is consistently cheaper to buy the whole 6 pack or case and drink at home....
Definitely NO one has any idea of the snowball effect this will cause....
Like the man said, the real minimum wage is $0.00
You order from touch screen maybe 2 people behind counter and you pay at the regular register line.
I’m waiting for the entire fast food “experience” to become automated. It wouldn’t be that difficult. You may need to keep one tech on the scene in case of a malfunction.
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