Posted on 03/30/2015 6:04:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In commemoration of Palm Sunday, dozens of churchgoers marched into a Logan Square McDonald's singing, chanting and demanding a $15 minimum wage for the workers behind the counter.
About 80 congregants had gathered at the Logan Square Monument moments earlier to receive communion and to use the example of Jesus riding into Jerusalem a week before Easter to demand what they called a living wage for all low-wage workers.
"Jesus was participating in street theater on Palm Sunday. On that day he was riding in on that donkey. He was saying business as usual will not continue here," said Marilyn Pagan-Banks of San Lucas United Church of Christ in Humboldt Park, after she and several other clergy tried unsuccessfully to hand a letter to a McDonald's manager.
The event was organized by Arise Chicago and several churches in the Logan Square Ecumenical Alliance as part the "Fast for $15" program, in which congregants and community members were asked to abstain from fast-food restaurants during Lent.
The gathering was in support of the Fight for $15 campaign, which started in New York more than two years ago and has since filed hundreds of claims against McDonald's.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
If you’re worth more, then go out and earn it.
UCC - isn’t that the first church denomination to officially adopt the homosexual agenda hook line and sinker - back in the early 80’s???
Dream: Close the store and give every fired worker a card with directions to the nearest participating church for their future meals.
I would kindly suggest that they look into what has happened to the workers in Seattle since a well-intentioned city council arbitrarily raised a city mandated minimum wage.
Their employers vanished as did their jobs.
35 hours at a wage of $00.00 totals NOTHING AT ALL.
That is called “old fashioned math”.
Pikers! If $15/hr is good, why settle for anything less than $100/hr. How far do you idiots want to carry this stupidity before the unemployment effects you’ll experience sink in?
And perhaps that is a good place for MacDonald’s to introduce its robot hamburger makers and touch screen order placers to have instead of people in those positions, thus reducing the number of employees.
Uh, I don't think God gives you credit for demanding that someone else give.
Look at those professional grade signs. No one can tell me this is just a bunch of churchgoers on a Sunday deciding spur of the moment to go protest. These protests are well organized, financed and led by union and commie agitators.
Arise Chicago A.K.A. SEIU
Jesus was using Alinsky tactics on Palm Sunday?
That’s offensive.
Actually, He addressed that quite succinctly.
Thou shall not steal.
Directly or indirectly.
It’s still stealing if you hire, elect, or authorize someone else to do the stealing for you.
Yet, these will be the same guys fighting to bring in more and more illegals.
“Jesus was participating in street theater on Palm Sunday. On that day he was riding in on that donkey...
“The event was organized by Arise Chicago and several churches in the Logan Square Ecumenical Alliance as part the “Fast for $15” program, in which congregants and community members were asked to abstain from fast-food restaurants during Lent.”
It’s OK for leftist causes to use the church, but if right wing causes are involved with the church, then it’s violating separation of church and state, and the churches will be investigated by the IRS, right?
Who paid to have the signs printed? SEIU? CPUSA? ...
the real minimum wage is zero. perhaps you would be happier with that.
Would have been neat if the protesters had all bought burgers & fries & said to the workers “we’re supporting your jobs with our business even as we disagree with management about your pay”. That would be real solidarity with the workers.
Yeah, right.
Just like when faggies invade Chick Fil-A’s and chant & disrupt then leave without buying anything. Same tactic, same intent.
“It’s for your own good in the long run, comrades!”
Oh yeah, Jesus was all about the minimum wage.
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