It Might Be Impossible To Get A Fast Food Meal On Thursday

[xchrom]

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-fast-food-workers-set-for-walkouts-to-demand-wage-hike-2014-9


Fast-food workers nationwide aren't planning to show up to work on Thursday, Sept. 4.

(Reuters) - Fast-food workers in more than 150 U.S. cities are planning protests on Thursday to press for a wage increase to $15 an hour and allow them to unionize jobs from the fry-basket at McDonald's to the cash register at Burger King [BKCBK.UL].

"We're going to have walkouts all over the country," said Kendall Fells, organizing director of the movement called Fight for 15. "There are going to be workers who don't show up to work or who walk off the job at 12:01 a.m. or at noon."

Observing the various job actions will be international delegations of workers from 13 countries in Europe, Asia and South America, he said.

The protests come as cities across the United States propose minimum wage increases while Democrats in Congress seek to raise the federal minimum wage ahead of November's mid-term congressional elections.



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[TreasonousBastard]

1. I'm all for raising the minimum wage, but...

this is about national burger joints.

What about local delis, pizza places, ice cream shops...? And that's just food places.

Any thoughts about reducing taxes, rents, capital costs, etc. that might help the little guy pay for wage increases? Raising pay is generally a good thing, but it should be part of an overall plan.

[xchrom]

3. home health care workers are being encouraged to join the effort as well. nt

[marions ghost]

7. They are way underpaid

I am all for that!

[pinboy3niner]

9. Thankyou,SEIU

They put their war chest behind fast food workers, raising some questions among their members. Now those questions are being answered as they bring in the home health care workers and the strategy becomes more visible.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. As well they should...

they're really screwed.

But, I still ask where's the money coming from? Most HHC clients aren't wealthy, so it's got to come from somewhere else.

The government? Cut the (possibly obscene) profits of the hhc contracting companies?

It will work out-- it always does. But you wonder who gets hurt.

[Android3.14]

5. It starts somewhere

In my town, Mickey D's is the place where a significant chunk of people find jobs.
If fast food workers receive reasonable pay, then the other low wage jobs will rise in wages to compete for the workers.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. That's true, but when the kids in the local deli get a raise...

who pays for it without corporate deep pockets?

The answer is usually "It will work itself out."

I hope so.

[randome]

13. I received a free Imo's pizza last week because they were late delivering it.

I always pay the tip online so the delivery guy doesn't have to do anything other than hand me my pizza.

When he said I was getting it for free, I said, "What about your tip?" (I rarely have cash around.) I told him to tell his manager to call me if needed so he could get his tip. But nothing came of it.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

[pinboy3niner]

16. Good for you

I pay online, but write in a generous tip on the receipt when I sign for it. Which benefits me, too, as the drivers always seem to make me their first stop when they leave the pizza place with my fresh, hot-out-of-the-oven pizza.

[BrotherIvan]

17. Always pay your tip in cash directly to the driver

Many people have said they never got the tips from the card receipts or online. Unscrupulous owners steal them. Especially if you're thoughtful enough to give a good one.

[Alkene]

2. Sounds like a healthier day in America.

A day of not eating crap, as applies to both customers and workers- literally and figuratively.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

15. I think your messages are at crossed purposes.

If fast food is as bad as you make it out to be then the best thing would be to stop patronizing such establishments. That would obviate the need for a wage increase among fast food workers.

[malaise]

4. Solidarity Forever

Go Workers!!!

[ellenrr]

6. hope so! nt

[joshcryer]

8. Best wishes to them.

There have been many efforts to this effect but they never succeed. The NLRB has basically neutered unions and mass action to nothing. Expect many people to be threatened with being fired and many giving up as soon as they get the phone call.

Thanks FDR.

[marions ghost]

10. What it's like to live on minimum wage

[sabrina 1]

14. Customers can help too, by not going to them. I am especially thrilled to see that this is

worldwide. I imagine the Corporate greedsters who have been profiting for decades by using foreign labor for criminal wages as THEY went Global long before the people, must be slightly worried now that the WORKERS are also going Global.

We know that if US wages rise, these Corps will simply go elsewhere where there are no labor laws. So the strategy of the workers of the world should be the same as theirs, GO GLOBAL and cut off their escape routes from fair labor laws.