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I really don't think it's just the money. My cousin worked at Mcdonald's and she wasn't guaranteed a set number of hours. If she was told to come work 9-5 and around 2pm things slowed down, she was told to leave without getting paid from 2-5pm. I wouldn't mind getting $7 a hr, if I knew I had guaranteed hours.
Fire them all and start hiring kids again. Other than managers, fast food was never a career. They already get exactly what they are worth: minimum wage.
I could go back 40 years and say that about the auto industry. How much do those people get paid for manual labor now.
Not really. Keep targetting the industry and keep pushing the point McDonalds is only viable because its workers are getting cash assistance, food stamps, and medcaid. In short, money is taking from taxpayers, and used to subsidize the operations of fast food workers.
Something is wrong with a business model if needs government subsidizes like that . They need to pay their workers enough money not to do welfare. You need reform in McDonalds labor practices and business models.
Which should also bring up welfare reform. If welfare for the individual "poor" person, or is it really a way to subsidize businesses and FAILING business models? Because if your workers can't survive on the wages you pay and you're a large corporation, you have a failing business that needs to go UNDER.
Now, if McDonalds and other companies like this can afford to pay more money, then they need to. Plain and simple, after all, these are Fortune 500 companies, not Mom and Pop Stores.
Its amazing, that comparatively poor people rush to defend the CEOs of wealthy fast food operations, though they will never see that degree of success in their own careers.
the biggest retailer, Wal-Mart, does the same thing.
I don't get this notion that fast food workers don't deserve to get paid $15/hr. Fast food workers, like any other employees, deserve to get paid as much as their employers are willing to pay them. If the result of these strikes is the employer conceding to pay them higher wages, then good for them. A lot of you must be envisioning the high school dropout with no tangible skills working these dead end jobs so they deserve nothing more than minimum wage. That may be the case now but don't you think once the salary becomes attractive enough, these people will face competition from more competent workers vying for employment as well? At the end of the day, are you more concerned that these people might be earning more than their worth or the price of Big Macs going up? You always have the choice of eating elsewhere.
FF jobs are for college kids needing to earn money for books etc., or a P/T job for extra cash.
FF jobs are for immigrants that do not have any education.
FF jobs are not meant to support of family of 6...........or to be a life long career.
Also if you take a job and you know it is 15 dollars an hour, no one forced you to take it. So why should they go on strike.
How much could mcD's possibly pay someone, really?
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