Houston burger flippers on strike LOL (compare, Pennsylvania, propaganda, New Jersey)

[janelle144]

If they get that much I bet people will stop eating out at fast food so much, then they lose their job. How does that help them?

[Seeker5in1]

Originally Posted by janelle144

If they get that much I bet people will stop eating out at fast food so much, then they lose their job. How does that help them?

I'm discouraged at the cost of fast food already. I can eat at home for three days for what it costs to eat at pseudo meat burger one time if I "super size" it.

[Ceece]

Originally Posted by janelle144

If they get that much I bet people will stop eating out at fast food so much, then they lose their job. How does that help them?

There very well may be fewer burger joints (or other low paying businesses) but the ones that do operate will pay their employees better and probably be able to get better employees. It's not about quantity of things all the time.

[thenewtexan]

Originally Posted by 979Texan

This is so pathetic. These idiots who wrap your tacos and put together your burgers want $15/hr and to be able to unionize. Get some marketable skills if you want to make more money. What a joke!!!

I don't have to stuff my face with fast food (admittedly it is good now and then, though). This argument falls on deaf ears as I don't feel sorry for someone that works in fast food.



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Wait...tacos WITH burgers??? Give it to 'em!

[chad3]

Originally Posted by 979Texan

This is so pathetic. These idiots who wrap your tacos and put together your burgers want $15/hr and to be able to unionize. Get some marketable skills if you want to make more money. What a joke!!!

I don't have to stuff my face with fast food (admittedly it is good now and then, though). This argument falls on deaf ears as I don't feel sorry for someone that works in fast food.



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You just called Americans who work fast food jobs "idiots."

Texas sure is producing a bunch of disrespectful trash these days.

[J746NEW]

Capitalism is a Dog eat Dog world with the survival of the fittest and strong kind of mentality. In this case, the ones that can rig the system and buddy up with the government tend to do the best.

That is part and parcel of the survival of the fittest. Take every advantage you can get.

These people striking are only doing the same thing, trying to fight back in a dog eat dog kind of world and they have every right to do so. Those that would like to shut them up are against freedom and pro fascism.
Owning the government is not enough and they would like to shut up the common person that speak out about it. These are the kind of people creating free speech zones and against freedom of expression throughout history.

The same ones against these people are the same kind of people that were all for opening the gates to illegal immigration and for global free trade that was also responsible for the shuttering of many jobs in this country so that they could push our technological and industrial know how to Commie China so that they could get more money on their stocks when they sell the substandard products back to American's at an expensive price when you consider Chinese were paid 100 bucks a month via Walmarts and other China Marts.


Fast Food Joints used to be for High School kids and the like, but many low and medium skill blue collar jobs do not exist anymore since we have been turned into a service economy to fatten the wallets on wall street.

The condition this country is in all lies on the fault of those that have twisted our economic policies to serve a few elite at the expense to the rest of the country. The Middle and lower class do not have the political and monetary power to shape the policies like they do.

Rest Assured, the same people that helped push our technological and industrial know how to Commie China will be chanting for the poor and middle class to go fight against the Chinese should it ever come to that. These cockroaches will not be lifting a weapon to do it.

[theunbrainwashed]

Originally Posted by Kirdik

What's the price of a Big Mac there?

About €5. I was there 2 years ago. Were you hoping it cost €10?

[theunbrainwashed]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

Yep. How dare Americans expect an American corporation to be just as generous at home as they are abroad.

LMAO...you can't make this stuff up.

When I lived in Germany, workers at McDonald's got 5 weeks paid vacation, maternity leave paid, paid sick days, etc....and they were a CASH COW over there and still are.

But giving Americans even a penny raise will bankrupt the corporations and make hamburgers go up another 5 bucks if you let conservatives tell it.

It's best that they do what Obama said to them in 2006. To just shut up and sit in the back of the bus where they belong. If we listened to conservatives back then, we would still have child labor laws, no regulatory agencies, because they would bankrupt the economy Hell, we would still have slavery because farms can't survive without free labor! Anything and everything will disrupt the economy and cause us to go bankrupt. Best to just not listen to them and go full steam ahead without them. Western Europe told their RWNJs to frig off, and they are doing much better than us in every quality of life measurement

[Mike930]

I worked in fast food when I was in high school and college. Everyone else was the same. These days I see people in their 30's doing the same jobs.

I know it's been said time and again here, but burger flipper wasn't meant to be a career. The skill set to use a spatula just isn't all that rare or in short supply.

If all these people walk off the job, I'm sure there are high school and college kids ready to fill the openings.

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by Schumacher713

Minimum wage should be in the area of 21 dollars an hour with adjusted inflation. It really is not that stupid. Kind of find your statement pathetic. Maybe you should have some clue what you are talking about.

In a free market, your......

Professionalism
Responsibility
Integrity
Dependability
Education

Determines your worth to the public.

Not some set fee, or a fixed price.

To start, fast food workers here in Austin make more than minimum wage.