Fast-food workers push for $15 an hour

[koalabear]

Salon reports this week that fast-food workers in New York City staged a walkout, while workers in Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Flint, Mich., went on strike. Backed by the Service Employees International Union and local advocacy groups, workers in each city had the same demands: a raise to $15 per hour and the chance to form a union without intimidation by management.

http://money.msn.com/now/post--fast-food-workers-push-for-dollar15-an-hour

Good luck with that.

 

[Sean]

the chance to form a union without intimidation by management.

http://money.msn.com/now/post--fast-food-workers-push-for-dollar15-an-hour

That's considered a basic right in most civilised countries.

 

[KRCummings]

I read this earlier and was most surprised to find out that people still live in Flint.

 

[KRCummings]

That's considered a basic right in most civilised countries.

It is here, too but that doesn't stop companies from trying to intimidate. Mostly they fail because the laws are fairly strict but some still know how to do it. It's a lost art.

 

[koalabear]

That's considered a basic right in most civilised countries.

Plus one of the steps in the commie manifesto.

I read this earlier and was most surprised to find out that people still live in Flint.

Muslims are taking over Mich.. Some one had to.

 

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[koalabear]

They gotta go to North Dakota to make $15 an hour to start.

I think they should all just close down.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

Salon reports this week that fast-food workers in New York City staged a walkout, while workers in Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Flint, Mich., went on strike. Backed by the Service Employees International Union and local advocacy groups, workers in each city had the same demands: a raise to $15 per hour and the chance to form a union without intimidation by management.

http://money.msn.com/now/post--fast-food-workers-push-for-dollar15-an-hour

Good luck with that.

It burns my ass that some corporate raider might have to buy a smaller personal jet just because the working poor who don't want public assistance like some of the neighbors, are trying to pay rent and put food on the table.

 

[koalabear]

It burns my ass that some corporate raider might have to buy a smaller personal jet just because the working poor who don't want public assistance like some of the neighbors, are trying to pay rent and put food on the table.

Shut em down, let people fend for themselves.

 

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[chillywilly2]

It is here, too but that doesn't stop companies from trying to intimidate. Mostly they fail because the laws are fairly strict but some still know how to do it. It's a lost art.

Possibly your next career

 

[KRCummings]

It burns my ass that some corporate raider might have to buy a smaller personal jet just because the working poor who don't want public assistance like some of the neighbors, are trying to pay rent and put food on the table.

That's fine but $15 for a fast food job? No.

 

[KRCummings]

Possibly your next career

Anti-Union head breaker is good work when you can find it. Not as much call for it these days though. It's a bummer.

 

[Balladeer08]

Salon reports this week that fast-food workers in New York City staged a walkout, while workers in Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Flint, Mich., went on strike. Backed by the Service Employees International Union and local advocacy groups, workers in each city had the same demands: a raise to $15 per hour and the chance to form a union without intimidation by management.

http://money.msn.com/now/post--fast-food-workers-push-for-dollar15-an-hour

Good luck with that.

I wish them good luck also, and not with sarcasm.

$15/hour for 40 hour for 52 weeks is $31,200/year. Which is STILL not a living wage in New York.

Meanwhile, the people who complain of the poor getting "entitlements" also deny them the right to earn a living wage.

The guillotine awaits.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

That's fine but $15 for a fast food job? No.

$15 an hour for flipping burgs is ridiculous but so is $7.25. The right wing fucknuts posting in this thread want to eliminate welfare but they don't want to pay a decent wage to the people fighting to stay off of welfare.

 

[miles]

Meanwhile, the people who complain of the poor getting "entitlements" also deny them the right to earn a living wage.

Exactly where is the "right" to a living wage granted?

 

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[Joeybagadonuts]

You don't even have a right to a fucking job, let alone a living wage.

Jenn doesn't think you have a right to your military pension.

 

[miles]

You don't even have a right to a fucking job, let alone a living wage.

It's just another liberal wet dream...along with a right to a college education and owning a home.

 

[koalabear]

$15 an hour for flipping burgs is ridiculous but so is $7.25. The right wing fucknuts posting in this thread want to eliminate welfare but they don't want to pay a decent wage to the people fighting to stay off of welfare.

Obama just created high paying jobs at amazon, burger jobs are for starters.

 

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[Sean]

Exactly where is the "right" to a living wage granted?

You don't even have a right to a fucking job, let alone a living wage.

Funny, I thought the constitution was a list of what the government couldn't do. The presumption being that anything not enumerated in the constitution was a de facto right until proven otherwise.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

I don't get a military pension son. I only served 11 years. Major fail on that one.

o.k junior, my bad. Now explain to be how my statement had anything to do with the US Constitution.

 

[koalabear]

Funny, I thought the constitution was a list of what the government couldn't do. The presumption being that anything not enumerated in the constitution was a de facto right until proven otherwise.

No you didn't.

 

[Busybody]

I wish them good luck also, and not with sarcasm.

$15/hour for 40 hour for 52 weeks is $31,200/year. Which is STILL not a living wage in New York.

Meanwhile, the people who complain of the poor getting "entitlements" also deny them the right to earn a living wage.

The guillotine awaits.

who wants to deny who anything?