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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IF i owned such an establishment, all these workers who didn’t show up for work & instead showed up to protest would be given their final paychecks tomorrow.
With high UNemployment, I can find replacements.
We want BIGGER BURGERS at LOWER COST.
Might as well just eat it then...
no use observing it further
:-)
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Should the wages go up it will be indirectly beneficial for the consumer as they may be eating less crappy food resulting in lowering the rate of diabetes as well as heart disease
RE: I still say customers should stage a counter protest:
That will come BUT NOT VISIBLY.
Lower sales, less customers because of higher prices... less hiring... YOU CANNOT FOOL THE INVISIBLE HAND.
You can’t say it any better than that!
“The cooperative effort was organized by the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations”
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Tobacco ?????
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This has a NEW WORLD ODOR to it.
Thank you! The points I made just don’t seem to get discussed, in news coverage or analysis of the issues involved with minimum wage work. But they are important points to consider.
I used to work at the Allen Wood coke plant in SE Pa.
It was one one side of the Schuylkill river along side of the blast furnaces.
The other side had the BOF and the rolling mills.
Regulations ran that business right out of America...
we know those beef patties are at least 15% actual beef
As an aside, somebody told me that all McDonald’s food is full of preservatives and fillers.
They said that McDonald’s milkshakes don’t have enough real milk and cream to be officially called milkshakes, so McDonald’s simply calls them “shakes”.
As for me, I prefer to buy meat at the grocery store, and cook hamburgers myself at home.
oooooooh noes..... gosh I am quaking in muh boots
Home made always tastes better
Agreed. Somebody who thinks McDonald’s is a good hamburger, has probably never had homemade. They don’t know what a good hamburger should taste like.
Great! Too bad these dumbasses didn’t take economics 101 and learn something about supply and demand in the workforce.
There is going to be a career change for these people when they lose their jobs and are replaced by machines, lower wage undocumented immigrants, or unskilled teenagers or elderly willing to work for pocket money.
Life really is harder when you’re stupid.
Unions are front organizations for communism. Sound like the 1950’s? yup.
From Eddie Murphy "Raw"
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