Posted on 07/30/2014 1:29:30 PM PDT by jazusamo
Once again, one man has dictated a major change of federal law that can cost American families dearly.
It may double the price of your Big Mac, Whopper, fried chicken, donuts or other purchases at your local fast-food restaurant.
Where’s the beef coming from? Surprise! This time it’s neither President Obama nor Attorney General Eric Holder who is twisting the law like a pretzel from Auntie Anne’s. It’s Obama appointee Richard Griffin, the president’s hand-picked choice for the all-powerful position as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Mr. Griffin has declared that millions of Americans who work for franchise restaurants aren’t merely employees of the business owners, regardless of what their paychecks and the tax records say. Reversing decades of clear legal precedents, he declares that from now on they are the “joint” employees of McDonald’s and the other big franchise companies as well as the local store owners.
Now the big labor bosses no longer would face the challenge of trying to organize each separate restaurant into a local bargaining unit. They can go after all staff at all the Pizza Huts, all the KFC’s or all the Starbucks at the same time.
Never mind that local franchisors hire and fire their own people. Mr. Griffin treats the operations as though they are identical photo-copies from a FedEx Kinko’s franchise.
The unions’ top goal is to double starting pay from the minimum wage of $7.25 a hour to $15 an hour. Expect the price of a burger and fries to be super-sized along with the wages. The Service Employees International Union and United Food and Commercial Workers already have extensive multimillion-dollar corporate pressure campaigns up and running, which they call the Fight for 15.
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>> convert to burger making bots
‘zackly.
Might as well pay one truly skilled worker $30/hour or so in salary and benefits to run (say) four or five burger joints.
Less real estate required as well.
Nothing like mandated $15/hr grunts to inspire American innovation, LOL.
And the $15/hour is pretty trivial compared to the inefficiency the union work rules will bring on.
I like yours more than his:)
It all depends on the wording in the franchise agreement.
It could result in the franchiser being stuck with the cost in which case they will probably go bankrupt and reorganizing differently.
What is Tortious interference? And can the government be sued for it?
Hmm. Let’s see how the former employees can buy their former products while out of work. Especially if Red China ceases to lend to us to support our SNAP program . . . that is, if we ain’t all dead from food poisoning thanks to Chinese food processing . . .
Actually considering where the economy is headed, flipping burgers may be the only career option for most folks.
Until people stop buying fast food because it is too expensive. Funny how the whole economy is a huge control system which eventually settles out at a lower and lower level.
Funnier that “the people in the know” don’t realize this fact.
LOL. Instead of the $1 menu, they will now have the 1 Oz menu.
More democrat thugs gaining power.
No, everyone will NOT pay this increased cost. There will shortly be a point where the increased cost of a meal at Micky D, or KFC, or Burger King, or any other franchise is just not good enough to justify the cost.
Already I get a special (for ME) made breakfast each Saturday, served with all the coffee I can drink, exactly as I want everything for LESS than poorer food at Micky’s.
Soon, goodbye several thousands of jobs, lost by those who will have the hardest time finding work. Good luck, buy you will have received exactly what you demanded.
But didn’t SCOTUS rule this guy was not legally appointed to this board? Are they just ignoring the SCOTUS ruling?
So when half the fast food franchises go belly-up, who will be blamed? McDonald’s. How? How should I know? But you can’t underestimate the LIVs.
I believe Griffin was renominated by the WH turkey and confirmed by the Senate.
I understand what you are writing. I agree that is the way things “should” be understood. But this clown at the NLRB just indicated that even though your Burger King is owned by “ABC Burger, LLC”, the minimum wage employees are also employees of Burger King, Inc.
That NLRB guy must have X powers or something to be able to add language and meaning to a non-governmental private business contract.
And forget about having someone take your order. There will be kiosks with touchscreens for you to place the order yourself, and pay with your debit card. That technology has been available for a long time too.
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and if the computer is a dumb terminal that does not keep any of the CC info, then there is nothing to steal but.... frozen patties.
You got it. There will be employess who get a $15.00 wage, but they will be the ones that fix the burger robot. and there will only be 2 per restaurant. If you have noticed, “Mickey Dees” already has a robot that prepares all the soft drinks- grabs the right size cup, adds ice, adds soda. the only thing the worker has to do is hand it to the customer.
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McD’s and other fast burger joints will be priced out of the market, unless they start selling “eighth-pounders.” The remaining jobs will be automated, and the people running the machines will be worth well above minimum wage.
This may also be a way of forcing the entire chain to comply with Obummercare. I would guess a single store might have less than 50 employees but no way the whole chain does.
Franchise owners should start right now, today, to eliminate all staff members who have been employed there for more than a year and haven’t moved up the ranks at all. Those would be the ones ripe for being sucked into the union message. Replace them with bright faced American teenagers who won’t plan on making a career out of filling bags with burgers and fries (no healthcare cost since they’ll be on their parents plans) or with seasoned citizens who just want to work a few hours a week to supplement their Social Security (no healthcare cost since they have Medicare)..
These steps need to be taken immediately to remove the ripe fruit that’s just waiting to be plucked by SEIU, et al.
This will go to court. If you don’t like the wages at McDonalds don’t work there.
The parent corporation is likely to be shutting down low performing locations to cover the costs of a forced franchise buyback. The locations that remain should be converted to fully robotic service to reduce labor costs. The shutdown locations can be sold to recover the real estate value to fund the buybacks. There is no obligation to operate a business at a loss.
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