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Eleanors38

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2. Fast food workers have become the new Industrial workers.

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 06:06 PM

Dec 2013

Fast food jobs were once considered temp jobs for students on summer vacation, or while casting about for something -- anything -- better. Bad pay, scrambled schedules, no benefits, little advancement. But that can be said about millions of jobs, now, and will describe millions more jobs in the future. And they will have one other thing in common: Workers will have few rights and no security.

"Fast food" is now being served to all.

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Fast Food Strikes Called in 100 Cities... [View all] Jesus Malverde Dec 2013 OP

This is a win-win-win situation Blue Owl Dec 2013 #1

So you want people to eat less fast food Dreamer Tatum Dec 2013 #3

FF corporations CAN afford to pay more, but CEO greed prevents it Blue Owl Dec 2013 #4

It's not a matter of ability, it's a matter of need Blanket Statements Dec 2013 #5

There was an "overabundance" of labor during the Depression, yet unions grew rapidly. Eleanors38 Dec 2013 #7

Skilled vs unskilled labor Blanket Statements Dec 2013 #8

So all those depression-era unionized jobs were skilled? Eleanors38 Dec 2013 #9

You're trying to compare two different economies Blanket Statements Dec 2013 #10

Would you support FF workers getting, say, $12/hr,? Eleanors38 Dec 2013 #11

The issue I have is when you decide that the new Blanket Statements Dec 2013 #12

Fast food workers have become the new Industrial workers. Eleanors38 Dec 2013 #2

"Do you want fries with that?"..nt Jesus Malverde Dec 2013 #6

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