Let them Eat Fries : Fast food workers take to the streets
Thousands of fast food workers are expected to stage protests Thursday outside of restaurants such as McDonald’s, Burger King and Domino’s in a coordinated push for higher pay.
Backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), fast food workers in 150 cities plan to walk off the job and pick up picket signs to demand that they be paid no less than $15 per hour. It will be the seventh strike organized by the Fast Food Forward campaign since November 2012, when the campaign began.
“At Thursday’s strike, fast food restaurants will see firsthand that workers are willing to do whatever it takes to win $15 and union rights,” said Kendall Fells, the organizing director at Fast Food Forward, which receives funding from the SEIU.
Business groups and franchises are pushing back on the campaign, arguing an increase in the minimum wage would be bad for the economy and ultimately hurt workers.
Steve Caldeira, CEO of the International Franchise Association, said in a Wednesday statement that the SEIU and other labor groups were putting pressure on the corporations in a callous attempt to grow their membership.
“When you boil this all down, it’s really about the unions being hypocritical and greedy by exploiting proposals meant to support fast food workers to enrich themselves,” Caldeira said in a statement.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s most powerful business group, produced an analysis that says more than 40 of the full-time employees at SEIU headquarters make less than $15 per hour — the same amount that the union says should be the minimum for fast food workers.
Read more: https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/216594-fast-food-workers-take-to-the-streets-for-15-minimum#ixzz3CLvkywmD
If they think they are worth $15 per hour then go look for another job, but i also agree that no one can get by on minimum wage.
As usual, it will be a small minority of actual fast food workers, while the majority of the demonstrators will be union rent-a-mob types.
For goodness sake, how did a job intended to be a way for youngsters to make a few bucks and learn some work skills morph into grown adults who now expect it to provide a living for their entire family?
If you don’t like your job, find another one? What’s that? You can’t find other jobs? Then perhaps you should have thought of that when you were skipping school.
Since when does every job guarantee enough to ‘get by on’?
Its geared to part time jobs for kids, or some new arrival in the country, or someone dumb enough and unable to get a better job.
The end result of this nonsense will be that the fast food companies will quickly move towards automation, like an ATM, that takes the order, cooks the food, and delivers it, while doing a better job.
As part of that end result, these jobs will disappear.
Lets remember to thank the unions for putting more people on the welfare rolls.
Its not a ‘right’ to have every job pay you enough to make a career out of.