Posted on 08/29/2013 5:39:08 PM PDT by RedStateGuyTrappedinCT
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fast-food workers and their supporters beat drums, blew whistles and chanted slogans Thursday on picket lines in dozens of U.S. cities, marking the largest protests yet in their quest for higher wages.
The nationwide day of demonstrations came after similar actions organized by unions and community groups over the past several months. Workers are calling for the right to unionize without interference from employers and for pay of $15 an hour. That's more than double the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, or $15,000 a year for full-time employees.
Thursday's walkouts and protests reached about 60 cities, including New York, Chicago and Detroit, organizers said. But the turnout varied significantly. Some targeted restaurants were temporarily unable to do business because they had too few employees, and others seemingly operated normally.
Ryan Carter, a 29-year-old who bought a $1 cup of coffee at a New York McDonald's where protesters gathered, said he "absolutely" supported the demand for higher wages.
"They work harder than the billionaires in this city," he said. But Carter said he didn't plan to stop his regular trips to McDonald's.
Jobs in low-wage industries have led the economic recovery. Advocates for a higher minimum wage say that makes it crucial that they pay enough for workers who support families.
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Should have worded that a bit differently. Only union members got the color coded bracelets. They were supposed to turn one of them in for food at some point.
Who knows what they turned the other one in for.
I won't eat at McDonald's on principle alone. That, and I do not want spit in my food.
And they don’t spit on your food
The difference between what people say and what they actually do:
"They work harder than the billionaires in this city," he said. But Carter said he didn't plan to stop his regular trips to McDonald's.
Polite, very pretty, college aged young black woman handed me my lunch one day through a Wendy’s drive through in one town.
A few days later, the same young lady seated my party at a mid-priced, sit down restaurant in another.
I kept looking at her familiar face, and finally asked her where I knew her from...
She sort of remembered me too...old, polite, white woman customer who looked her in the eyes, smiled and said thank you after receiving my order.
Short chat later,and I learned she was working two part time jobs while also attending higher education classes part time.
It's a Southern thing... I suspect she will own a very successfull business in a few short years.
She looked the type...
I don’t know. The thought of having a steel contraption make my food doesn’t sit well with my stomach.
I eat at Chik Fil A. Don’t really care about any other fast food joint. Well, maybe Panda Express.
Fact is this, soon they’ll all be self order and self pay like the checkout at Kroger. Not only that, I believe soon all the fast food jobs will soon be automated. Almost like walking up to a vending machine press #1 and everything else is automated.
This is a gimmick. Labor pricing is determined by the market. Let’s see we are a year and a half away from elections. What do Democrats always do about now?
Yes, that’s it. Desperately search for an issue to galvanize their disparate constituencies against conservative changes to their gravy train.
Remember the OWS or 99% movements? Where are they now?
Reborn as these goofs.
“Robots that are more efficient, polite, and make correct change”
And they don’t have body fluid that will make its way on your meal.
seiu types I’m sure
Good. This will finally push the level of mechanization to where it should have been years ago in food service. Starting with the cashiers—they use a touch screen to take my order, so can I. The fewer people touching my food on the way to my tray, the better.
Wawa - a 7/11 type convenience store in the Philadelphia area - has been using touch screen ordering at their hoagie counters for a couple of years now. It's been wildly successful, the menu has rapidly and widely been expanded. I wish more places would use that model.
Most of those people protesting are not fast food workers. The storyline is they walked off the job. No one is wearing a uniform. These people are union goons bussed from protest to protest. And the media gives them credence.
I’ll bet that the people who actually work there have been threatened if they don’t join the protest.
In other words, steady employees are instantly labeled “strikebreakers”, and youse guys awready knows what we does wid’ da `scabs’.
The building I work in has a deli on the first floor. Up until about 3 months ago, I could get a large salad for about $6.50, made to order.
The day after ownership changed hands, I was charged $8.50 for the same salad.
I haven't been back. Now, I usually bring my lunch, or go to another deli, and pay a couple bucks more for a greater selection of salads and other items.
Needless to say, the deli's business has dropped at least 50%.
Oh yes, I know WaWa. I only get gas there but that might get me inside to check things out.
a little 3 in 1 oil never hurt anybody... 8^)
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