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Fast-food workers kick off global labor action

Getting fast service doesn't mean the food is garbage.

I picked up lunch today at the KFC drive-thru. 6 pieces of chicken, mashed potatoes & gravy, a buttermilk biscuit, green beans and a couple ears of corn.

That's not garbage. That's a tasty and nutritious lunch.
Being from the south and knowing what good fried chicken is. It isn't KFC.
 
Getting fast service doesn't mean the food is garbage.

I picked up lunch today at the KFC drive-thru. 6 pieces of chicken, mashed potatoes & gravy, a buttermilk biscuit, green beans and a couple ears of corn.

That's not garbage. That's a tasty and nutritious lunch.

Nasty. Church's is mo better. Bigger and better juicier pieces, yum.

Church's Chicken
 
i started out in 1986 making at 3.50 an hour. nearly 25 later in 2011 i was making 15.70 an hour at that job. i worked my butt off to get what i was earning and these people just want it given to them.

HELL no!!

btw you didn't address the points i made.

This whole post is depressing on so many levels.
 
If a $15 minimum wage was ever passed all that would be accomplished is that the fast food industry would finally go automated.

The $15/hour fast food jobs that are left would be for those few who are needed to service the hamburger making robots...

The only thing holding back automation in a fast food restaurant is that it is still cheaper to have employees.
 
That machine can't unload the food truck or make your burger.

That particular one? No. Which isn't to say that there aren't other forms of capital that owners can invest in to replace and reduce labor costs in those tasks.
 
If a $15 minimum wage was ever passed all that would be accomplished is that the fast food industry would finally go automated.

The $15/hour fast food jobs that are left would be for those few who are needed to service the hamburger making robots...

The only thing holding back automation in a fast food restaurant is that it is still cheaper to have employees.

Automation is going to happen eventually anyway.
 
Automation is going to happen eventually anyway.

Well, true, but it will only happen when automation becomes a cheaper alternative than hiring employees. By calling for a raise in their wages they only accelerate their obsolescence.
 
The one here in Austin (TX) had exactly 3 FF workers and about 30 activists and labor union members. SEIU prolly.
 
$15 per hour would pay for a lot of robot employees that don't (yet) bitch.
 
Most if not all fast food restaurants do not accept tips. Worked at Subway for some time during highschool and we were told never to accept tips.

The Subway here has a tip jar by the register.
 
Whole bunch of idiots that think flipping burgers and cleaning dirty fryer's is worth $15 an hour. It's not. I mock anyone that went on "strike" and anyone that thinks that wages should be about fairness and not market value.

You want more money? Go earn it, by making yourself worth more money.

That is not a concept they can understand.
 
i started out in 1986 making at 3.50 an hour. nearly 25 later in 2011 i was making 15.70 an hour at that job. i worked my butt off to get what i was earning and these people just want it given to them.

HELL no!!

btw you didn't address the points i made.

But what you make doesn't matter. Only people that are making minimum wage are important.

That is what we get from these types of stupid strikes.
 
More purchasing power for a larger percentage of the population within a consumer economy = healthier consumer economy.
 
Community colleges offer an aa tops, which in turn is sill expensive for low income individuals You didn't post 10k. You posted a proposal that is being discussed. I'm talking about reality not a what if.

and the pay off hardly allows them to recover from accumulated debt.

You didn't mention AAP's. An Associate of Applied Science in Network Admin is very valuable. Other AAPs are as well.
 
Lol thanks.

You know, sometimes I really do get frustrated with how little freedom we have here. But then I remember FOX news (which I still do watch from time to time admittedly for comedic reasons mostly) and I certainly wouldn't want that kind of freedom over here. MSNBC is terrible but their bigotry isn't as bad as FOX.

You should stop listening to President Obama so much.
 
Precisely. Who cares if those young folks and those with two jobs are out of work, right?

There can certainly be some modernization and computerization of the fast food industry that could occur, particularly if wages are forced too high. The cashier can be replaced with a computer.
 
You're out of your depth in this discussion because you refuse to do research.
Student loans are increasingly causing student debt that can not be payed off. All because no only is the college degree that is earned not assuring anybody will actually get a high paying career but when they don't get the career that they spent so much money in education for upon returning to minimum wage the income is not enough to placate the debt.

$1 Trillion Student Loan Problem Keeps Getting Worse - Forbes


Again reality is different from your world of fantasy.

Whose fault is it that an earned degree does not guarantee a job?

Also can you tell me a time when holding a degree did guarantee a job?
 
Turned out it was put on by SEIU. How astonishing.

What these idiots don't understand is that if they join the union, any raise they get will go directly to the union dues for them to keep that job.
 
Your personal story doesn't refute the reality of what the majority is going through. And the majority of those struggling to get through college because the financial burden and rising cost of living is a reality. The income required is beginning to supersede what a middle class, let alone a lower class, citizen can afford no matter the amount of work put in. You choice to ignore these variables is willful ignorance.

How do you know what the majority are going through?
 
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