Posted on 05/23/2019 11:59:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Democratic presidential contender Julian Castro joined a march to a McDonald’s restaurant in North Carolina on Thursday to draw attention to workers’ efforts to raise the minimum wage and secure other protections.
Nearly all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have expressed support for the idea that the federal minimum wage should be more than doubled, to $15 an hour, and several were joining actions around the country Thursday.
The McDonald’s annual shareholder meeting is also Thursday in Dallas. Striking cooks and cashiers planned to travel to the shareholder meeting, where they’ll attend a video town hall hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders, another Democratic presidential candidate.
Castro, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development and current San Antonio mayor, marched with roughly 200 activists, minimum wage workers and union representatives from a park in Durham to a nearby McDonald’s. He joined them in chants of, “Put some respect in my check,” and “What do we want? 15! When do we want it? Now!”
Workers banged on makeshift drums, waved red flags saying “NC raise up” and carried a giant effigy of McDonald’s cartoon character Ronald McDonald. The march ended in a rally front of a McDonald’s. …
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These people are stupid...................
I did not know that McDonalds was a union shop. Learn something new every day. :)
The CEO of MacDonald’s is black...thus Juan and ilk are racists.
The maker of the kiosks must be paying these strikers or at least agitating them. I wonder at people out trying to eliminate their jobs this way but then remember the people I have dealt with in MacD’s here and there. They are not terribly bright, even the managers who have been there for years.
These people are stupid...
Well-that is an appropriate venue for him to use to get attention-since it is also the only place he is really qualified to work...
When I was a teen, Fast Food jobs were the sole domain of teenagers. They weren’t ever considered a ‘career’, nor was there a call for a ‘living wage’ because nobody used them as such....................
I would prefer a kiosk than a person.
A kiosk won’t spit in my food..........................
I think that you just insulted McDonald’s! :)
Good. Shut it down. Nothing but grist and other innards discards anyway.
And in related news, McDonald’s just doubled the number of restaurants utilizing Self-Ordering kiosks.
Don Thompson hasn’t been CEO since 2015. The current CEO, Steve Easterbrook, is from England and is white.
A kiosk won’t spit in my food..........................
But it will tell you that you’re an unfit mother....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-4LU79qbU
They have those at my local McD’s. Next up will probably be some kind of automated cooking too.
LOL..........Our future...................
So?
Just going on the record. Doesn’t make Castro any less racist, by any means.
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