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It is true that her arrest occurred AFTER (chronologically speaking) her complaint to the McD president.
However the arrest was not BECAUSE of her complaint. She and others chose to protest somewhere they were not welcome (not a McDonalds).
I have nearly zero sympathy for someone working as a cashier at McDonalds for ten years. It is probably an act of charity that her bosses haven't replaced her with someone more motivated.
“It’s really hard for me to feed my two kids and struggle day to day,” Salgado shouted at McDonald’s USA President Jeff Stratton while he spoke to the Union League Club of Chicago. “Do you think this is fair, that I have to be making $8.25 when I’ve worked for McDonald’s for ten years?”
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She should be shouting at herself in the mirror.
[the source of the problem is looking right back at her]
macpherson;31836204] Little growing babies need a young healthy women to develop and be nurtured out of, its the way its supposed to be.
Those little babies also need a MAN to own up to his responsibilities of providing all means of support to them and their mothers. That's also the way it supposed to be. Unfortunately some male segments of our society have no interest in such things and this is what you get.
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What kind of a society would shun young women having a baby regardless ? This world and its bent way of doing things is not in step with the surviving norm of the species and twisted. A culture without.
The kind of society who doesn't want to "be judgemental" towards men who consider a child not much more than an after effect of getting laid and women who chose to not take advantage of their education opportunites and, instead, have babies out of wedlock. Repeatedly.
We have way too many in society who find that acceptable today.
Those kind of jobs pretty much pay the wages that the work demands - no skills required, no education required, no experience required... literally ANYONE can do the job.
When you offer a job that anyone can do, you don't have to pay very much, because if someone thinks it's too little, you can just hire someone else who thinks it's enough for them.
Those kind of jobs are not meant to be "career jobs" that you can expect to support a family on - they are temporary jobs that you can do to make a little extra money. If you are a teenager with no bills or expenses, you can make a few hundred bucks a month to buy a ****ty used car or a new xbox or whatever. If you are an adult and a little behind on your bills you can pick up one of these jobs to help catch up, etc. And then you quit and go off to college or get a "real" job or whatever.
The problem is some people think that if they have a job, ANY job (fast food, Wal-Mart, etc.), it should be enough to live off. They fail to grasp the concept of supply/demand and don't consider that it makes no sense to expect to be paid a high wage for doing a job that literally anyone else could do as well. If they want a "living wage" then they should acquire some useful skills that people ARE willing to pay more for.
But this is why I like the Universal Basic Income idea from Switzerland. If you don't have the skills or education needed to get a good job, then fine - here's your money that everyone gets. If you need a little more, pick up a job at Burger King. But I don't like any of these suggestions like "minimum wage" or "living wage" that forces companies to pay more than the market demands, because all that does is increase costs for the rest of us. Especially when "the rest of us" DON'T get raises when minimum wage goes up, all we get are increased costs.
I disagree with your idea that these are not "career jobs". Go the McDonalds website and go to the job section where it says careers not jobs for teenagers or anything like that. If they are advertising it as a career then that is what it is. If supply/demand has a job that does not pay enough to live on would it not be better to just get rid of that job and create better paying jobs. If a job can not even be worth enough for someone to live on seems like a pretty useless job to me. I do agree a Universal Basic Income would be great and might eliminate the need for some of these jobs.
Why do people think they should be able to make a living at places like McDonalds?
Why do you think if a job can not provide a living for someone the job should even exist? You do realize there are only so many higher paying jobs not enough for everyone.
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