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McDonalds does not need an excuse for how pay scales are set. They come to a mutual agreement with each prospective employee, who is free to accept it or not, and is free to walk off the job at any time and never look back. If sufficient workers do not show up to run the store, then wages are too low. If sufficient workers do show up, then wages are evidently at the market and need no adjustment. Nobody forces anyone to work for McDonalds or any other particular employer.
Yep.
But that doesn't preclude any group of Americans from exercising their right of free association and forming or joining a union and collectively bargaining. That's a constitutional right that we have.
Again. Americans retain the right to band together and demand more money, benefits, better conditions, etc...
If those demands are unrealistic, that has zero bearing on the right to demand it/them.
Now what the company decides to do is another question.
But McDonald's entered a collective bargaining agreement in Australia, so why can't Americans demand the same?
I'm not so sure how tablets and this kind of automation will work. A few years back when my local Home Depot went to automated checkout, the thing took my money and ran. No change, no nothing. They had to call a live body over to fix it. I never went back and never will. I went to Lowes, which had live people manning the checkouts.
Same with grocery stores which have automated checkout. I never use those lanes and rarely see people using them. The lines with full carts are still at the checkouts that have flesh and blood cashiers.
In time it could work, but in my neck of the woods, people still seem to prefer dealing with people.
The Bank I use has added tellers and made them the front line employee to its sales force. Selling the services the bank has and directing the customer to one of the people working the desks.
Changes the bank branch to a full service store of financial products.
Technology will only work up to a point. A human will have to cook those burgers and fries. Are we going back to old fashioned "Automats"? Take your own food out of the slots for burgers or fries? At the very least a person is going to have fill up those slots.
But that doesn't preclude any group of Americans from exercising their right of free association and forming or joining a union and collectively bargaining. That's a constitutional right that we have.
Again. Americans retain the right to band together and demand more money, benefits, better conditions, etc...
If those demands are unrealistic, that has zero bearing on the right to demand it/them.
Now what the company decides to do is another question.
But McDonald's entered a collective bargaining agreement in Australia, so why can't Americans demand the same?
Have tried the table ordering in Red Robin and was not happy with it. I now use the server and let the grandkids play games.
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