McDonalds on strike?!

metalmiles

metalmiles

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McDonald's workers going on strike demanding 15/hr?! This is crazy! Workers are stating that the minimum wage isn't supporting their families. Since when has any burger flipper at a fast good chain actually decided they wanted flipping burgers to be their career? They don't even have to flip the burgers anymore they're cooked with a machine! I mean what has made this country so lazy that people don't look and strike to make their lives better?
 
:lol: @ $15 an hour to flip burgers. It's not that you can't support your family because you are making minumum wage, it is that you are making minimum wage so you aren't supporting your family. It isn't McDonalds fault you are making minimum wage, it is YOUR fault!

Community college is cheap. I managed to go back to school and graduate while working 40+ hours a week, running a side business, and having two kids one of them being a newborn on the day I started (literally, I went from the hospital to my first class).
 
Yeah it's so rediculous if you want more money go make it happen. Don't complain and go on strike. Be productive. People just don't have the self honor and pride to make something of themselves
 
the hidden agenda is the unions want into the fast food industry.. they are the one pushing his "strike"
 
Do they not think that if their wages go up by that much then how many are still going to have jobs cause no one will be able to afford fast good any more. Then they will wine about not getting paid to sit on their ass at home cause they caused themselves to be out of a job.

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15 is absurd. On a similar note the majority of people on government assistance are employed by the fast food industry. Mcdonalds has the largest share.


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Although i agree with the majority of this, the ppl striking are mostly located in nyc & other large cities. I can sure see where $7/hr wouldn't pay for the cost of living there. Esp considering the food is more expensive even at McDonald
 
Maybe ther'll be some Mc scabs ;)
the last time I went to a mcds about 15 peeps were on the job getting in each others way behind the counter and in the "kitchen"
 
There is not one fast food place around here that pays minimum wage. I constantly see signs of starting @ $9.50. On top of that, one of them I was in the other day offered a $100 sign-on bonus! If a Labor Union is offering to represent this utterly Non-Skilled labor force, I have lost what little respect I had for Labor Unions.
 
Idk how I feel about the unions. They're sure are getting they're hand into a little bit of everything getting their cut and filling alot of job slots.
 
If they raise minimum wage but don't raise my wage for Logistics Analyst, I'm going to go watch burgers roll off a chain onto a bun. Seriously though what do you think a $15/h minimum wage rate would do to the cost of EVERYTHING.
 
dackers said:
If they raise minimum wage but don't raise my wage for Logistics Analyst, I'm going to go watch burgers roll off a chain onto a bun. Seriously though what do you think a $15/h minimum wage rate would do to the cost of EVERYTHING.
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I've worked for more years than I care to disclose! Still working as a Professional Truck Driver [er-what I call it], at $15 an hour! Have Never exceeded $15!
 
My fat ass won't eat any more fast food if this ever happens. If they're going to make just over a dollar less than I do as a machinist, they can get their money from someone else.


Although, if you do some reading, one way of government control is starvation. So, if they double minimum wage and nobody can afford fast food and the people having to pay that much higher wage lay off a bunch of workers...that sounds like a start. Companies take a huge hit, lots of people out of work, and the next stop is cracking down on food regulations. Conspiracy? :D
 
To preface this- I do not agree with the system as a whole but I feel like the definition of skilled labor is part of the issue, along with how we delegate pay. If this offends some people in this thread i'm sorry this is only my personal opinion but more than 50% of jobs out there are probably overpaid in the corporate world. This of course is in relation to what "certain" jobs actually pay. I'm soon to turn 29 and in my short years in the work force I have worked what I would like to think cover a broad spectrum of what is available out there. Two examples:

I would be interested to see how people view "driving a truck" or being an "administrative assistant" on the lower levels can be viewed as twice as skilled as those who work in the fast food industry. I am speaking solely on job description- not on personal work ethic or job characteristics. Loosely defined it's only driving a vehicle or answering phones and relaying messages- something 99% of most Americans are capable of. I also find it hard for recent graduates with business management degrees and the like to come into the work force with 80K salary expectations starting right out of school, but have never had a part time job. Who in their right mind would want you to "attempt" to run their business. To me there are so many facets to political issues that get lumped together in debates, bills, and legislature that we will never be able to sort through them with any kind of progress.
 
blt, I think the main word, is, "Skilled" labor. It takes some skill, or training, to do any job. But for instance, my "Driving", has been an acquired skill, & still learning! Learning what the idiot's that are today's drivers, do, as I try to avoid Crushing them! I feel I have developed a sixth sense, or esp, of what that other driver, is going to do, Before, they do it. I'm responsible for driving anything from a PU, to an 18+ wheeler, up to 100K+. Automatic, to 18 sp. trannys. Making deliveries & pick ups, with out any damage to customer sites, merchandise, or the public. My company, just had to let a young Driver go, because the Insurance Co., will no longer cover him, due to a serious accident. Seems hard to injure someone, seriously, with fast food! Coffee? Yea, I know, haha. May times I'm dealing with a matter of an inch, just as a machinist deals with thousandths/inch. Much more goes into many jobs, such as dealing with all the DOT/DMV, rules & regulations, ect, ect. :driver:
 
This issue has really pissed me off. I have been seeing stories of these people wearing their McDonalds uniforms and protesting.....ok instead of protesting, why isn't your ass at work?
Giving these people $15/hr to work at Mcdonalds is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Talk about no ambitions.
When people talk to me about this...I always say "Don't like making 7.25 and hour working at Mcdonalds? Then don't work at freakin Mcdonalds......"
I see the people who work at Mcdonalds.....no manners, uneducated, learning absolutely nothing.
I can't beleive this is an actual debate...boggles my mind.
 
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