Fast-Food Strikes Expand Across U.S. to 50 Cities

[Skeeter Barnes]

139. It's not just flipping burgers.

They clean the kitchen and dining room, restroom, parking lot, take out trash, wash dishes, stock the restaurant with supplies, provide customer service, etc... And most of them are on call with different start times every day and no predictable quitting time, making it difficult to add another job to make ends meet.

All of this is important work that needs to be done for the business to function and it is worth much more than they are making now. You might personally feel that none of their contributions are worth a decent wage but that is just your opinion.

IMO, a large wage increase is justified based on how long wages at the bottom have been stagnant. If wages aren't keeping up with inflation over decades and the govt. will not do anything about it, the workers have no choice but to take action.

And there is nothing wrong with doing that job, either. Having that job is not a failure or an embarrassment that they should be ashamed of doing until they can find something "better". Their hard work makes them valuable and there is dignity in any kind of work if you take pride in it and make the customers happy.