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.
“Robert Reich” and “low” in the same sentence.
Sorry. I thought it was funny.
Fertile ground for unions. Lots and lots of stupid people.
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!!!
Fast food — the next industry to die.
So another opportunity for unions to destroy the fast food industry, just like they did the auto industry.
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.
Someone has to maintain the robots or at least supplied with the raw food materials.
They do that, full automation will become much more attractive to keep prices below what the consumer will refuse to pay.
Fast food restaurants already have self-serve ordering kiosks, and there already are burger making robots.
http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/22/robot-serves-up-340-hamburgers-per-hour/
In retrospect, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore should have destroyed the institution of slavery by unionizing the slaves.
Within a few years, slaves would have become so, not just unprofitable, but expensive, that slaveholders would turn them loose. Then the unions would petition the slave states to prohibit manumission, so that slaveholders would have to pay through the nose to support their unionized slaves, and the plantation owners would sell out and flee to the free states.
You know the commie union thugs are desperate when they go after the burger flippers and fries guys. It’s all about money. Unions love stealing other people’s money.
They can try, but with 300% annual turn over the employees just don’t stick around long enough to organize, and the industry is geared towards rapid replacement to get rid of the few that do.
Part of Michelle’s strategy to get us to stop eating fast food and kill yet another industry?
If they succede, that's one way to cut down on "junk food" consumption by the American populace.
Between rising prices due to artificially high wages and inefficiencies due to union work rules, plus union-initiated "labor action", folks will stay home and fix something to eat there or for brown bagging.
More unemployed "utes" roaming the street looking for mischief to get into.