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Fast-food workers go on strike across the US


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2013 Dec 7, 5:48am   3,128 views  13 comments

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i would avoid eating at fast food restaurants today.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/Xe1X9W9Q8XE

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1   HydroCabron   2013 Dec 7, 5:58am  

I wonder how many thousands of lives this will save.

2   Shaman   2013 Dec 7, 6:00am  

It would seem ridiculous, since those have traditionally been viewed as kid jobs or starter jobs, worked by those too new to the workforce or unskilled to be worth more than minimum wage. But later I've seen a preponderance of adult workers in these jobs, and not all immigrant appearing. Considering that these jobs pay so low as to be nearly eclipsed by welfare benefits, and are hard work besides, shouldn't they make more money? In any case, grass roots union organizing is what this nation needs. For too long unions have been oby represented by crony public employee unions. It's time for a resurgence of the workers rights movement to address income inequality.

3   Strategist   2013 Dec 7, 9:45am  

Quigley says

It would seem ridiculous, since those have traditionally been viewed as kid jobs or starter jobs, worked by those too new to the workforce or unskilled to be worth more than minimum wage. But later I've seen a preponderance of adult workers in these jobs, and not all immigrant appearing. Considering that these jobs pay so low as to be nearly eclipsed by welfare benefits, and are hard work besides, shouldn't they make more money? In any case, grass roots union organizing is what this nation needs. For too long unions have been oby represented by crony public employee unions. It's time for a resurgence of the workers rights movement to address income inequality.

Fair wages can only be determined by the marketplace. Anything else will be unfairly passed on to consumers like me. Sure, I want everyone to make twice as much, but I don't want to pay for it.

4   indigenous   2013 Dec 7, 10:11am  

Minimum wage laws lead to lower employment every single fucking time, I thought this mutt was trying to lower unemployment? I guess he is just as fucking stupid as jerry brown

5   New Renter   2013 Dec 7, 3:40pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Comptroller says

FUCK McDEATHCHOW, Inc.!

SHIT in the Fry-O-Lator!

SHIT in the Milk Shake ooze!

BARPH on the burger grill!

I see your experience working the IKEA cafeteria has paid off.

6   zzyzzx   2013 Dec 7, 11:11pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Comptroller says

You could tell where the meatballs came from, I take it.

7   Tenpoundbass   2013 Dec 7, 11:45pm  

What I don't get, is why don't these fastfood workers just go work at a more upscale burger joint. I hear Bobby Flay pays a little better. And if these clowns get their way, Bobby Flay's $15.00 Cheese Burger Jr. will be a better deal than McDonald's $12.00 Value menu hamburger.

8   drew_eckhardt   2013 Dec 8, 1:04am  

I like good service without an attitude, and am more likely to get it when low-maintenance machines replace humans working menial jobs.

I'm all for higher minimum wages which make market alternatives more attractive and shorten the wait for that.

Instead of 8 overpaid low-skill checkers my corner grocery store has eight computerized self-service stations with one supervisor. That works great except when the corporatist government regulations hold up the check-out line for human intervention on alcohol purchases.

The Chinese have replaced $6400/year noodle cooks with $1600 robots

Baxter can replace many minimum wage employees where movement isn't needed for $22,000 and can be programmed by moving his hands.

In the next decade we should have humanoid robots with sensate hands that can use our tools which cost less than cars ($1.50/hour cash flow with a business loan against revenues assuming two shifts) and the era of unskilled labor in America will be over.

Atlas is just a prototype; I expect productized versions for customer service will look friendlier. Or maybe not - "YOU WILL HAVE FRIES WITH THAT!" Few customers could turn down that profit-enhancing request even if the robot was not equipped with a M134.

9   Strategist   2013 Dec 8, 1:11am  

The moral of the story is get yourself the right education, or be happy with welfare.

10   Bellingham Bill   2013 Dec 8, 2:13am  

Strategist says

The moral of the story is get yourself the right education

even that's not enough; there's not enough jobs to go around now.

Strategist says

Anything else will be unfairly passed on to consumers like me

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CP/

MCD makes 20% after-tax income on every order. Cutting that to 10% isn't going to cripple capitalism in this country.

The market creates outcomes, but not optimal outcomes.

11   HydroCabron   2013 Dec 8, 2:28am  

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Comptroller says

FUCK McDEATHCHOW, Inc.!

SHIT in the Fry-O-Lator!

SHIT in the Milk Shake ooze!

BARPH on the burger grill!

Good call on the burger grill: why shit there, when our meat-packing industry has already use super-fast production methods that mix shit with the meat.

12   New Renter   2013 Dec 8, 2:39am  

zzyzzx says

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Comptroller says

You could tell where the meatballs came from, I take it.

You WISH the horse you ate looked like that!

13   Tenpoundbass   2013 Dec 8, 3:51am  

Strategist says

The moral of the story is get yourself the right education, or be happy with welfare.

The moral of the Story is stay relevant. When everyone is doing the Okeydoke dance, telling you that you'll miss out if you don't play Monkey see Monkey do, along with them, you'll miss out on life. walk the other fucking way. You'll probably find an empty boss's chair somewhere, if you're looking in all the right places the lemming idiot horde is blind to.

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