yes it does look like it's in agony waiting to be out down, i guess it's on the do not post source list though... my bad
Posted on 05/11/2013 12:02:04 PM PDT by mdittmar
Fast food workers at more than 60 restaurants in Detroit walked off the job Friday. This may be the largest fast food strike in American history, involving more than 400 workers from McDonald's, Long John Silver's, Burger King, Popeyes and KFC. Some locations were forced to shut down. At issue is workers' right to form a union and an increase in base pay to a minimum of $15 per hour.
Pastor W.J. Rideout III, a leader in Detroit’s Good Jobs Now coalition, said the organic action was a result of a long history of mistreatment of fast food workers:
“They’ve been wronged in so many ways, it really doesn’t take much coaching to say, hey, we’re going to organize together, we’re going to stand up together,” he said.
“There are 50,000-plus fast food employees in the Detroit metro area…and they’re not even giving them the proper amount of hours,” Rideout said. “At 40 hours a week, they’re making about $15,000 a year, and they’re not even getting 40 hours a week.” Instead, managers hire many employees on an exclusively part-time basis. “Some of them are getting between 15 and 20 hours a week, and that’s barely enough to pay a cellphone bill.”
Reports are coming in that one McDonald's called in replacement workers, some of whom then joined the strike.
The strike in Detroit follows on the heels of similar actions in New York, Pennsylvania, Chicago and St. Louis.
I worked for Burger Whacker (Burger King) when I was a kid, and there was no 'union' anywhere to be seen..
At $15 an hour they will have to get orders right and prepared correctly. Which will be impossible.
Right now many Detroit area/suburban McDonalds a breakfast value meal with an upsized drink is over $6. I know of many family restaurants that you can get twice as much breakfast for the same price.
Fast food jobs are not supposed to be careers except in management. These idiots need to realize that there are thousands of people who will replace them.
yes it does look like it's in agony waiting to be out down, i guess it's on the do not post source list though... my bad
Double the price in the areas with unions. Or the companies will be forced into
a mandated price structure by the city Government, at which point stores will close
due to loses. Many what-ifs but the bottom line is Unions are destructive.
I can see people crossing state lines for a Whopper, and check points for people
burger smuggling.
Explains their backing of the new illegal alien amnesty push.
You haven’t seen the French fry robot at D’s? The only human interaction is loading fries into a hopper and then filling the cartons.
I'll bet real folding money this bunch will never make the connection that the hours are being cut to prevent the Obastardcare rape that starts next year.
Can you imagine how fast the town will become Hispanic if that happens.
“Organic” = “Wildcat” = “illegal”
You got it. This whole story shocks me. I didn’t know there were that many fast-food restaurants in Detroit. But, being Detroit, I fully expect the businesses to be burned to the ground the next day if they sack this bunch.
The Black population of Detroit may starve to death if these workers don’t get back on the job, and soon.
Yeah, but you still have to pay cash for your drinks and crack.
Time to bring back the Automat...Now if they can figure a way to do drive thru.
Those businesses are black owned and have no where else to go since the subs are filled with McDonalds.....
Franchise owners are under contract with the parent company and if McDonalds says put green doors on your restaurant then you put the green doors on. If McDonald's says no unions then there are no unions.
Most of the McDonalds restaurants in Detroit are owned by a group of black investors and they are not going to allow this community organizer to dictate how they should run their restaurants.
If these low information idiots continue to listen to their Pastor Rideout, they're going to be out of work...........
As a side note, this Pastor has an extensive history of trying to stir up this kind of crap in Detroit.......
No, an "illegal strike" only applies if there is a union contract in effect at the time such strike occurs........
this is about a group of employees who said screw it, I'm walking..........
Let 'em walk, hire some newbies.
“The lowest cost of living standard in the US...I think...for a city of its size...is Detroit.”
I’m thinking Cleveland myself. However the highest per capita income in the US was Detroit . . . in 1950. Sixty three years of Democrat mania ruined that.
There’s a small trend concerning this action. Employee owned business are cropping up all over the place. Once a business closes, employees gain special financing and take over the establishment. Almost as if the government ‘gave’ the employees their jobs.
“They have touch screens where you enter your order, so they just need somebody to make the sandwich.”
They have these in convenience stores in my area (the big chains); since they put them in the older American women that used to make the sandwiches have been replaced by young foreigners. I guess the touch screen can be set up to show your order in Spanish (or just pictures). It wasn’t automation; it was replacing American workers with imported cheaper ones.
“Right now many Detroit area/suburban McDonalds a breakfast value meal with an upsized drink is over $6. I know of many family restaurants that you can get twice as much breakfast for the same price.”
The dollar menus are great, though; you can get stuffed for less than $5.
Ping.
If I were the franchise owner I would belly up and declare the loss. The nice thing about this is you can claim losses forward for for upward to 4 years.You need a very experienced tax preparer and accountant, with a lawyer in the wings.
This happened to me once. Got audited. Put my team together, and ran rings around the IRS. My people were so aggresive the IRS actually offered me a refund. I turned them down with the admonition that they never bother me again.
Not a peep in 25 years.
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