Posted on 03/30/2015 4:25:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
On a recent Friday, Kwanza Brooks, a $7.25-an-hour McDonald’s worker, climbed into a 14-person van to take a four-hour ride from Charlotte, N.C., to Atlanta.
As she and other workers headed south, Ms. Brooks, a short, fiery woman, swapped stories with her companions about unsafe conditions and unfair managers. Upon arriving, they joined more than 400 other people — including home care aides, Walmart workers, child care workers and adjunct professors.
The gathering was a strategy session to plan for the fast-food movement’s next big wave of protests, which is now scheduled for April 15. But the meeting was also seeking to be something far more ambitious. The organizers hoped the gathering would turn the fast-food workers’ fight for a $15 hourly wage into a broad national movement of all low-wage workers.
The Service Employees International Union, one of the nation’s largest and most activist unions, has quietly pumped more than $15 million into the movement, helping to hire dozens of organizers to rally fast-food workers nationwide.
Organizers say they expect 10,000 people at the Fight for 15 protests in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, with many college and high school students joining the actions. They chose April 15 because the date, 4/15, sounds like “for 15.”
“This movement is way beyond fast food,” Ms. Henry said. “We aren’t going to stop until the service sector in the U.S. becomes the foundation for the next American middle class.”
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You named your kid Kwanza?
The parents must hate their kid assuming he knows who both parents are.
The "I want to be replaced by a robot" movement tries to figure out how to really step on the gas.
The irony of their protest is that they’re advocating for more poverty
Better learn to deal with this now with people, so that when the automated vending machines that take these folks’ place revolt, we’ll be ready for them.
Tip box; 5 Guys has it
Here is a tactic for those of you that don’t like your wages. GET THE HELL OUT!!
$15.00/hr, except you have no job. Brilliant!
For myself, I can hardly wait till a McDouble
costs $5.00.
The gullible swallow the union bait so easily.
The feds have no constitutional power to meddle with wages.
Either nuke minimum wage, or states need to reject and nullify such unconstitutional federal acts
5 Guys, eh? I’m gonna check on that one..
I they had put this much effort into school they would probably have a better job
Community Organizer + Government Power = Tyrant
Some people are not able to produce enough value to earn a decent wage.
Such people are known as “the poor.”
Since when does the duty to assist the poor fall 100% on the person who happens to give a poor person a job?
Never.
Kwanza, huh?
okay
Such losers. Today’s generation has no shame. Hell even some in my generation don’t. My brother in law is a damn loser. He just got fired from Subway on his 4th day. The 3rd day there he was already complaining on facebook and pointing out how he schooled his manager on federal/state law concerning what action could be taken related to when a register was short. He was probably technically right but he was truly stupid. He also was complaining about the food prep gloves being to tight and on and on. They supposedly fired him because he was caught on video slacking for 5 minutes. :-) Hell I wouldn’t even hire him. The last thing I need is a chronic pain in the ass.
“They chose April 15 because the date, 4/15, sounds like “for 15.”
I would have chosen April 1, but that;s just me.
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