Posted on 05/15/2014 6:37:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It started with a brief walkout at a few restaurants in New York City back in November 2012, but on Thursday the campaign against low pay at America's fast food restaurants morphed into a global push.
By 9 a.m., the organizing group FastFoodGlobal.org reported that two McDonalds outlets in New York City and one in Boston were shut down.
Hours ago, young workers in the Philippines staged a singing and dancing flash mob inside a downtown Manila McDonalds during the morning rush hour. Their choice of music was the song "Let It Go" from Frozen.
When the news from abroad started coming in, workers at a Seattle McDonalds walked out in solidarity.
A McDonalds restaurant in Mumbai, where workers are represented by a union, was shut down by protesters despite a threat of arrest, according to the organizing group FastFoodGlobal. Action was reported in Switzerland, Japan and South Korea.
Fast-food workers are expected to walk off their jobs in 150 cities from Oakland to Orlando. The protests will be a first for fast-food workers in Miami, Orlando, Philadelphia and Sacramento.
The events are intended to publicize the employees' demand for a $15-an-hour wage. The median pay nationwide for fast-food restaurant workers is $8.69 an hour.
Organized by a group called Fast Food Forward, the walk-outs are expected to hit only two or three restaurants in each city, all of them big name brands like McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC.
In an unusual twist, events in support of the U.S. protests are planned in 30 nations around the world, from Ireland to Morocco to Panama, where American fast-food restaurants have become a familiar sight.
The cooperative effort was organized by the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations
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this will just push automation in faster.....
btw....I tried McDonalds $1.09 cent Buffalo ranch chicken yesterday.....its a WINNER!...really good.
Just in time to be replaced by ambitious students going on Summer break!
If I forget to pack my own food, then I just pop into the company cafeteria or go hungry. Or I go to a full service place downtown. I used to manage @ Arby’s - most of the people that work there are people not interested in working a “mainstream” job - they want to work, clock out, go party, sleep a few hours & do it again the next day. They also couldn’t pass a drug test. Besides, who knows what they put into the food. Yoga mat chemicals in the bread...yuck. Tons of preservatives and all sorts of other nasty stuffs.
The ignorance and stupidity of people who work for minimum wages at fast food restaurants is on worldwide display............................
I really wish these workers knew, and the news media would report that:
1. Just because you start at minimum wage, doesn’t mean you stay there your whole working lifetime. But, you have to be motivated to work your way up, or, to go to school and get training in some job field where you get job skills for jobs which pay better.
2. These workers are paid what they are, because it isn’t worth it for fast food places and retailers to pay $15 an hour for the low skill level work that they do.
3. Fast food places operate on some narrow margins. While McD is a big corporation, most McDonald’s are franchises, owned by individual enterpreneurs. Their franchise owner takes the hit if they are compelled to pay $15 an hour, not McDonald’s Corporate.
4. Fast food places can’t just double the price of a Big Mac, to maintain profit margins, if they double the wages of the hired help. If Big Mac Meals prices had to increase to pay higher wages, then the customer base will hit the drive thru less often. Sales could actually decrease with sharp price increases. The market will determine the demand for fast food at higher prices.
we know those beef patties are at least 15% actual beef
Oh I know. I don’t wish to hurt the big corps or the small businessmen. Just being cheeky. But really I tell my husband all the time we are surrounded by idiots.
I had not eaten at “fast food” either for many years, but was starving on the road and stopped into a MacDonald’s. I ordered and Egg McMuffin. I was shocked when to bill was over $4. Last I remembered it was a buck.
It will be a long time before I go back.
And when they are paying $15, a McMuff will be over $5.
This event is probably sponsored by the unions and the workers see that the welfare people have it better than they do and do not have to work for fancy cars and free food.
It is. The SEIU has organized all of this.
We eat at BK about once a week and KFC about once a month. If the workers were making $15 and hour, approximately double minimum wage, the prices would have to double as well. Our meal usually costs us around $14 for both of us.
We could eat at Logan’s for less than $28...............................
My granddaugter’s science project was to take a McD’s hamburger and observe it over a few weeks. Guess what? No change.
“.... two McDonalds outlets in New York City and one in Boston were shut down.....”
Wow! Impressive.
I love McD’s coffee and a Egg McMuffin. Otherwise the burgers just don’t agree with me. The last time I had a Quarter Pounder it was a salty,greasy mess!
Because that would be like...work.
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