Posted on 08/29/2013 9:16:20 AM PDT by Biggirl
Robotics installation and maintenance: about $100 per hour. Or leave it, and a technician will produce and market his own product after the national and local defaults. Fast food is a luxury convenience. Private sector Americans don’t need it.
THAT is how the left works.
LLS
Who said it was ok for low skilled workers earning 120k per year to strike? Not me.
What's more, I don't think most of these fast food workers really want to make 15 bucks an hour. At that rate, they'd very likely lose their food stamps and free healthcare for their kids.
Most of the factory jobs are long gone to communist slavery on foreign soil. Most of those complaining about fast food unions are dependent on government of various levels for their incomes. Some of them sit in offices with the task of preventing new, small production competition. Others pump kids full of antisocial propaganda. Their elders don’t complain about their favorite girls having labor unions and sucking over $40,000 per year (er, per nine months in most cases) after receiving children’s educations, even though they don’t do labor or technical trades.
those uneducated, daytime TV watching workers are not worth $5 an hour. Is that the problem CBS finds?
lol
And look at the national pensioners’ lobbies. Those are more influential than labor unions and put our country into unrecoverable debt. Meanwhile, the same pensioners are vigilant against allowing any “male” neighbor to repair vehicles or produce parts on his own property.
“The begining of the end of fast foods?”
Maybe a symptom of the beginning of the end of the “free market” system, dying of its own internal contradictions and no longer able to produce good-paying jobs?
force of government taxes, regulations and artificial barriers are not “internal” contradictions of the free market. They are proof that the market is not free.
My understanding is that many (most?) union contracts are tied to the minimum wage.”
You are right about that. Remember when I worked for a large Corp years ago. Our boss was always glad to recommend raises for his subordinates because then he would also get one.
SEIU certainly would still have problems though if burger flippers made $15.00 an hour and their members who worked in grocery stores also made $15.00 an hour. We all know that it takes a whole lot more intellect to put groceries in a bag than it does to flip a burger so they get a raise to $20.00 an hour. Our grocery prices go up, we buy fewer groceries, the store lays people off, they’re back to flipping burgers. Or they’re drawing unemployment and getting food stamps. In the meantime, groceries cost more so the food stamp cost escalates, our taxes go up, the government goes deeper in debt. It’s just a vicious circle.
Millions coming into the legal work force will be happy with < $15/hour.
No doubt.
Just wait until Obama grants 11 million mass pardons for all the illegal aliens in this country and there'll be no fast food worker labor shortage at all.
The dummies who are protesting for $15/hr. for a no-skill job are about to be replaced by sub minimum wage workers, and they'll have only themselves to blame. After all, they voted for that asshole Obama!
I remember the Automat from when I was a kid in New York City. I thought it was really cool at the time.
Did I ever mention touring the Buggy Whip Factory?
>In the end, this strike has nothing to do with care and concern about the “poor folks” earning minimum wage; rather it is a money grab organized by the unions.<
No doubt about it. In addition, the more union members, the more poor saps to bleed for dues.
“And no one’s getting fat ‘cept Mama Cass.”
>The side benefit of eat at a local eatery is more of your money stays in your town.
When you eat at a franchise most of the money leaves town and may even go overseas to pay for product.<
Absolutely. Our area has a number of great local eateries. Recently, we’ve acquired microbreweries, too. Let’s see, McDonald’s, or local with locally brewed beer? Guess the answer? (c;
I think what frustrates me the most is the seeming inability of the left to consider the longterm ramifications of their policies. No consideration of the next generation - or even next year.
The philosophy of the left truly is: "Eat, drink, be merry, and abort, for tomorrow... - eh, screw tomorrow..."
Not seeing it here. Plenty of people making the “food™” for the fat asses who are clip-clopping into those places in my area.
Wow, I’ve been down the same road you have travelled. I make less now for the same amount or more of effort than I did just ten years ago. One thing that separates us fron the profits at all costs (a phrase coined by cripplecreek) crowd, is that our knowledge and effort make a company, or, if they choose to go the cheap labor route, will break the company. That’s why there’s no such thing as employee loyalty anymore.
You treat your employees as just a commodity, to be disposed with at will, treated like cattle, or worse, replaced with third world labor, and you get the business environment of distrust and lack of innovation you have today.
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