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California fast-food workers launch new union: ‘They have to listen to us’
The Guardian (UK) ^ | Fri 9 Feb 2024 | Michael Sainato

Posted on 02/11/2024 10:13:38 AM PST by Salman

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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yup. I was one of them a long time ago.


41 posted on 02/11/2024 10:42:16 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dfwgator

There should actually be NO minimum wage.

I got my first regular job by apprenticing for free at a local gas station where my friend worked. Did that for probably two months. One of the regular employees quit, so guess who got hired to replace him? For pay!


42 posted on 02/11/2024 10:44:04 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
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To: DennisR

The minimum wage is always $0.


43 posted on 02/11/2024 10:44:44 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Oh they will listen, to the humming of automation while you sit in your mommy and daddys basement with out a job


44 posted on 02/11/2024 10:46:52 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Leaning Right

It is like this where I work. The management team tend to hire people like themselves (race and/or sex). They like about their belief in diversity, equity, and inclusion even though that is what the company I work for preaches.


45 posted on 02/11/2024 10:47:26 AM PST by moviefan8 (The noblest art is that of making others happy. - P.T. Barnum)
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To: T.B. Yoits
"This appears to be the way to raise salaries to encourage employers to hire illegal aliens under the table."

..... Something like that would be in the purview of a union action so the employers would not attemp that. The best time for the employer to move on automation would be before there is anything in their contract to protect them from it.

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46 posted on 02/11/2024 10:48:47 AM PST by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: R_Kangel

The first order of the Union will be to minimize or even halt the cost saving Automation...


Count on it. The railroad union insisted on having firemen long after there was a fire to attend on locomotives. (Note: I am well aware of the reasons for the animosity between railroad workers and their unions towards management. And certainly the value of two brains and sets of eyes in locomotive for safety reasons).


47 posted on 02/11/2024 10:49:19 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: Salman
Fast food locations will be closing or automating.

More unemployment, more blight, more reasons to move out of the once-great state of California.

BTW, the law affects more than fast food workers. As the prices rise and the (cough, cough) quality suffers, there will be fewer customers thus less biz for the food suppliers, and their suppliers. The inverse multiplier effects leading to more unemployment, lower tax collections, and more need for govt services.

48 posted on 02/11/2024 10:51:37 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Salman

FWIW, the Planning Commission in my town just approved another fast-food joint, this one a fried chicken place. Raising Cane’s, or something like that. Just fried chicken parts, toast, French fries, and I think lemonade. That’s all they sell. The drive-thru aisle has stacking for 23 (!!!) vehicles. Holy Crap! Their marketing plan hit a home run, as did the one used by a ‘coffee’ outlet in this region known as Dutch Bros. Wildly popular. They don’t promote their food or coffee, necessarily. They sell an image. That image is adopted by many of their very young and vacuous clientele as an essential part of their identity. “Brand Loyalty” for these kinds of places is phenomenal, and little unsettling.


49 posted on 02/11/2024 10:53:00 AM PST by drwoof
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To: moviefan8
It is like this where I work. The management team tend to hire people like themselves (race and/or sex). They like about their belief in diversity, equity, and inclusion even though that is what the company I work for preaches.

And it drives away normal people who don't even bother applying in the first place. This is why good people don't want to get involved in politics anymore.

50 posted on 02/11/2024 10:53:04 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hanamizu

> The railroad union insisted on having firemen long after there was a fire to attend on locomotives. <

I friend of mine was a fireman on a diesel locomotive. As you noted, union rules. I once asked him what he did on those long country runs. “Wave at the cows,” was his reply.


51 posted on 02/11/2024 10:55:28 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: dfwgator

Re lower wages for young teens, I agree. We don’t hire kids to pick crops anymore because we have to pay them prevailing wage. They have no skill set or work ethic, and I have to pay them $18 to train and babysit? No thanks. 20 years ago we would employ kids for 3 hours a day, they learned how to show up on time, put some sweat in and earn some extra scratch for music, games, whatever. Those days are long gone. Good job leftards.


52 posted on 02/11/2024 10:57:31 AM PST by small farm girl
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To: moviefan8

I meant to write “lie” instead of “like”. My typo.


53 posted on 02/11/2024 10:58:07 AM PST by moviefan8 (The noblest art is that of making others happy. - P.T. Barnum)
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To: Leaning Right

And of course in IT, there are the Indian managers who only hire Indians.


54 posted on 02/11/2024 10:58:32 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

The writing was on the wall in California, so the chains will get what they deserve, for not paying attention.


55 posted on 02/11/2024 11:00:00 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

As with everything else, there will be fewer outlets cranking out higher volumes. FWIW, I remember my first McDonald’s hamburger. I was six, and my sister and I finally pestered our folks enough that they finally took us there one day. I took one bite of my burger. It tasted weird and awful to me, and I could not finish it. Cured. (That is, until they came out with breakfast items many years later. A McMuffin with some orange juice was my cheap, fast, go-to on the road breakfast for years. Now it costs around $83, I think, and the people behind the counter aren’t particularly friendly.)


56 posted on 02/11/2024 11:06:16 AM PST by drwoof
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To: small farm girl
We don’t hire kids to pick crops anymore because we have to pay them prevailing wage.

How terrible, having to pay prevailing wages. Gosh so awful, so awful. So you hire scab aliens instead, right?

The balls to make that statement. I hope your crops rot.

57 posted on 02/11/2024 11:06:44 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

I tried my hand at restaurant automation but unfortunately the companies themselves are developing and manufacturing the equipment so the small shops can’t get their foot in the door. Otherwise that’s exactly what I would be doing.


58 posted on 02/11/2024 11:07:56 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eye)
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To: central_va

Robots are scabs.

Lol.


59 posted on 02/11/2024 11:08:37 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Salman

Que up the ChiCom made food-bots.


60 posted on 02/11/2024 11:15:20 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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