Coming to a "fast food" location near you.
Posted on 08/29/2013 9:16:20 AM PDT by Biggirl
(MoneyWatch) Employees of fast food restaurants are striking in cities around the country, bolstered by support from labor unions, churches, and other groups, demanding $15 an hour wages and a greater ability to unionize. Many consumers have complained that the expectations are unreasonable, given the type of work and the skills and drive they assume must be lacking in the workers.
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Obama has put a lot of people out of their good jobs and into fast food jobs.
Having voted for Obama, those workers now want $15 an hour.
An interesting article on exactly this:
In the Future, When Robots do All Our Work, What of Capitalism?
Big National Problem = Liberals / Progressives retarding the economy.
Yep.
$15 / hr buys a tech to maintain the robots, not a bunch of low-skill button pushers.
Top Down: Obama Care forcing people out of full time jobs and reducing small business workforces making people go to work at the local fast food place part time.
Bottom Up: Fast Food strikes started for more wages as people whine and complain without realizing their president is the the cause of their current predicament.
Inside Out: Government Nationalizing ALL Private Industry in an attempt to “Resolve the Crisis”
Coming to a "fast food" location near you.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
This would be a no brainer for me if I owned a FF store.
If people who I pay to do a job DEMAND I give them more than they agreed upon at hiring, the order for Automation would be placed that day.
While I have extensive control automation experience I an not a fan of Automation simply to replace people but maybe do the job faster, better, and yes sometimes those criteria did result in a job lost but when people DEMAND it, full automation steam ahead.
Union thugs who wish to rob fast food workers gather in front of businesses, encouraging employees to join their unions with promises of fanciful wages is more like it...
Guess they’ve pretty much given up on the whole WalMart union thing.
>The begining of the end of fast foods? <
I’ve not been eating regularly at fast food places and I’ve not only lost a bunch of weight and dropped clothing sizes, I feel better. If we eat out, it is most likely at a local, non-franchise eatery.
I think basic laws of economics are going to kick into high gear if fast food is forced to pay idiotic wages to workers.
Unions and workers are suffering from short term memory loss. Hostess bakeries.
I think y’all are hitting this all wrong. If your working at McDonald’s there is a reason. The biggest of which is, that’s the best u can do. You didn’t take advantage of a free education. While some may not like public schools it is the largest and most effective “welfare” program we have. If you didn’t take advantage of it and now find yourself wearing a hair net.... I have no sympathy for you.
Yes, let’s unionize a massive food industry. What could possibly go wrong?
The beginning of the end of fast foods?”
Many of us grew up in an era when there were no “fast foods” places. It’s really no big deal and I would think that people really will be able to survive. Most of the restaurants in our area do offer delivery and/or curb pick-up - not quite as instantaneous but we’ve been opting for that for quite a while and it works well.
God forbid that people should actually cook meals at home.
These strikes and Obamacare will force a wave of automation, and once people get used to ordering their food from their phone and just picking it up, things will never go back. Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost.
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