Posted on 09/18/2013 7:19:19 AM PDT by RedStateGuyTrappedinCT
Robert Reich says striking low-wage workers need collective action and bargaining, but our other panelists are skeptical of union power.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Labor Unions, Politicians and other thugs go where the money is.
With the demise of manufacturing in the USA, the profitablilty of the fast-food industry looks like an untapped pile of gold to the extortionists running the unions.
A $10 Big Mac? Don’t think so.
Exactly. Unions only exist for the benefit of those running the union. People who most likely never worked on the floor. They're more politicians than tradesmen.
“Robert Reich” and “low” in the same sentence.
Sorry. I thought it was funny.
Fertile ground for unions. Lots and lots of stupid people.
People would buy and nuke frozen foods before they paid that much for fast food. Or they would learn to cook their own burgers, and they will realize how much better tasting home cooked is.
Exactly right. With today’s technology, who doesn’t think it is feasible to build a fully automated fast food joint?
The fast food industry should take a page out of Wal-Mart’s rules for radicals.....when they strike shut the SOB down!!!And let the picket the unemployment line!!!
And they don’t have the ability to spit in you salad!!!
Fast food — the next industry to die.
What idiots like Reich don't get is that the reason these jobs are low paying is because almost anyone can learn them in a few days. There's no apprenticeship or long training program. Their value is that they teach young people the basics of getting along in the work place, things like showing up on time, doing a good job, listening to superiors and they give older workers a way to supplement their income.
They're not designed as jobs to raise a family with unless your goal is management or ownership of a franchise.
So another opportunity for unions to destroy the fast food industry, just like they did the auto industry.
And it would be. Walmart had 1.4million workers, if those hours were fulltime and each worker had to pay 0.30 an hour in dues, that union would get almost a billion dollars per year. If you go after every service job, you’d be talking about tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars. in revenue.
Fast food is not essential to our survival as a society—Many alternatives exist.
Teacher unions have been introduced to a similar harsh reality. Alternatives exist to public education.
However, if this happens, it won’t be the first time unions put their members out of work.
Here come the BurgerBots.
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