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Dozens Protest ‘Slave Wages’ For Fast-Food Workers In Metro Detroit
CBS Detroit ^ | December 5, 2013 | CBS Detroit

Posted on 12/05/2013 6:29:39 AM PST by Biggirl

DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Dozens of demonstrators lined up outside an east side Detroit McDonald’s restaurant in an effort to protest what one man called “slave wages” for fast-food workers.

(Excerpt) Read more at detroit.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: detroit; fasdfood; macwages; michigan; minwage; unions
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To: Paladin2

Can government has pretty much taxed or regulated those offshore.


21 posted on 12/05/2013 6:38:34 AM PST by edcoil (System now set up not to allow some to win but for no one to lose!)
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To: Biggirl
BOEHNER'S IMMIGRATION STAFFER: 'THERE ARE JOBS THAT AMERICAN WORKERS WILL NOT DO

Your replacements are on the way if the T.E.A. Party doesn't save your sorry jobs!!

22 posted on 12/05/2013 6:39:27 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Red in Blue PA
Right! And, these are low skill or no skill positions.

These are the jobs for young people who are just beginning their work career or are in school or for adults who need a second job.

These are not the jobs you take to raise a family.

People who constantly drive legislators to increase the minimum wage have absolutely NO perspective on what these jobs are.

In the end everyone loses...Employers have to limit hiring and consumers keep their money in their pockets rather than pay ridiculous prices for inferior food and services!!!

23 posted on 12/05/2013 6:39:54 AM PST by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: HarleyD
How many of those striking would be willing to spend $15 on a Big Mac meal?

Are you kidding? They wouldn't eat that shiite. They know what kind of people prepare the food.
24 posted on 12/05/2013 6:41:56 AM PST by Old Yeller (America: Under Iranian hostage since Jan. 20, 2008.)
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To: Biggirl
This is a created “crisis” to take attention away form obama robbing other sectors of the economy such as obamacare and death panels and such.
25 posted on 12/05/2013 6:42:50 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Biggirl

3rd world standard is dollar a day wage. Millions of people in Africa are yet to make as much. Why do they think they do deserve any better in Detroit?


26 posted on 12/05/2013 6:48:01 AM PST by cunning_fish
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To: Biggirl

Dang am I gonna get stuffed today. So many FFR’s and so little time. Maybe just purchase their smallest meal at each one just to P O the “strikers”. Now, get back to work or when you come back tomorrow, you’ll quickly figure that min wage beats zero wage. (And while your outside, sweep down the parking lot.)


27 posted on 12/05/2013 6:48:17 AM PST by rktman (Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
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To: Biggirl

It’s going to be so funny when they get replaced by machines :)


28 posted on 12/05/2013 6:49:26 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Biggirl

“Dozens” huh? Yikes. The unions are getting cheap when it comes to hiring “protestors”.


29 posted on 12/05/2013 6:49:43 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If you think signing up for ObamaCare was fun, wait until you try to use it.)
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To: Bob
>"How many of the “strikers” actually work at those fast food restaurants">>

That depends on your definition of the word work.

Does swiping an ebt card count as work? It doesn't swipe itself.

30 posted on 12/05/2013 6:50:33 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: logitech

‘All they have to do is quit.

Free at last.’

Is that free from work or free stuff from Barry’s slush fund for those who refuse to work??


31 posted on 12/05/2013 6:52:28 AM PST by 556x45
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To: logitech

LOL


32 posted on 12/05/2013 6:53:04 AM PST by just me (We are taking our first steps into a thousand years of darkness)
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To: rawcatslyentist
Does swiping an ebt card count as work? It doesn't swipe itself.

The cashier will swipe it for you if you ask them nice. < / sarcasm >

33 posted on 12/05/2013 6:54:29 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Bob
Since this is a clone of the Walmart black Friday protests, not a single one, I would wager, actually works for the fast food joint they are protesting.

Again, this is all about a union who has figured out where the next big flood of ‘members’, or rather, people they can bleed for dues. Raise those salaries a dollar an hour, so that the union can take that pre-tax dollar out of the employee's pocket and line their own.

Hey! Want to try for bonus points? Take the media picture of the Walmart protest and compare it the media picture of the fast food protest, and count how many faces you can exactly match between the two photos. I think the record last year was 11, with the accompanying media article actually quoting the same three people between the two protests.

34 posted on 12/05/2013 6:54:33 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Biggirl

Someone should poop in their mouths. - Martin Bashir


35 posted on 12/05/2013 6:54:54 AM PST by struggle
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To: Biggirl

Easy solution: liberal politicians should pass law declaring that all employees are paid at least $150,000 per hour, regardless of industry.

This is the minimum that any compassionate government should do.


36 posted on 12/05/2013 6:56:47 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: Biggirl

Dozens?? Too bad the actions of a few lefty wackos can make the news. Ignore them and they will go away from lack of interest. Covering them just breeds more.


37 posted on 12/05/2013 6:58:18 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Biggirl

Martin Bashir is shocked at this public expression!


38 posted on 12/05/2013 7:07:11 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Biggirl

$15/hour doesn’t mean much if there’s no one around to pay it. Same principle on display in Obamacare: ‘coverage’ does not mean ‘access’.


39 posted on 12/05/2013 7:09:39 AM PST by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: Biggirl

Detroit. Black employees. “Slave Wages”.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah.....we get it already!


40 posted on 12/05/2013 7:15:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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