Fast food workers strike, demanding $15 an hour

[CashmereThoughts]

Nobody wants to live on a fast food salary. That's the point you guys are missing. Everyone knows it's supposed to be a starting point or whatever, but that's not how things work out for a lot of people. Most of the fast food workers I see are middle-aged women who had no choice but to work those jobs.

We are in the middle of a recession. College grads from elite universities are struggling to find work. People have to take what they can get. No one is our here working fast food because they want to.

That's the Breaks nikka. But if they think a billion dollar corporation is just gonna give everyone a raise out of the kindness of their heart they crazy..

You don't have any skills maybe you need to work two jobs. My momma told me if you don't prepare yourself for the real world shyt will be rough.

Everybody crying about the wages being unfair but nobody's saying shyt about people actually striving to do better for them theirs. Blaming the economy ain't breaking the cycle for them and their children, they gotta do that

 

[No_bammer_weed]

these fools really want these workers to bend over...for what? why would anyone be mad at someone trying to get more money?

you know what it is, these cats dont care about anyone but themselves. they not working fast food, so they dont give a sh!t

well I dont work fast food, I make a good salary, plus side hustles. I make good money...and I these fast food workers for trying to get what they feel they deserve.

:FOH: at anyone thinking these coporations are walking a fine line. theres anough revunue to pay these workers what they want, they just dont want to.

I think there are a few reasons to the phenomenon of pro-1% responses here.

In America, we consider the rich to be Gods. We dont question them. We just exist in their world. If we suck up to em enough, one day they might be generous enough to make us one of them.

Powerless mentality. Many feel like they are powerless to challenge big time corporate America, so they bristle at the notion; however, these cats do feel power in challenging the fast food workers, because they consider them lower on society's rung. Its kind of like the punk who wont stand up to the bully of the block, who takes his money, but he'll beat on the 95 pound weakling who is minding his own business.

Hater mentality. I know everyone here is IT, six figga niqqa, but from some of the responses I have a suspicion that 15 n hour would be a come up for some. Straight up, they dont wanna see niqqas come up and get theirs, so they would rather the corporate daddies keep that money and ship it to the cayman islands, then to see one of their friends make a decent hourly wage.

SMH.

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

The entire problem with this type of union...is that they have no skill... it's not UAW or SAG, not a teachers union..hell, it's not even a UWFA.... what leverage do they have?

the difference between 50 years ago, and today.. is that there are far less people who work blue collar skilled labor jobs.

oh, we're gonna quit ... when these same spots turn right around the next day and hire for all them positions right on the spot..on top of that, they could raise wages $1 just to spite all them people who quit.

they've streamlined these fast food jobs to the point, where you only need to know how to count, and press the button for the machine to operate.

you've gotten too caught up in these social justice circles on your college campus, and have missed out on reality breh.

not all people in social justice groups are idealists. this is my major in grad school, n i agree with you 100%, some people cannot see reality, focused on how it should be instead of how it is.
a dollar or two but doubling your salary? whats to keep everyone else from demanding this also? teachers are very underpaid

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

That's the Breaks nikka. But if they think a billion dollar corporation is just gonna give everyone a raise out of the kindness of their heart they crazy..

You don't have any skills maybe you need to work two jobs. My momma told me if you don't prepare yourself for the real world shyt will be rough.

Everybody crying about the wages being unfair but nobody's saying shyt about people actually striving to do better for them theirs. Blaming the economy ain't breaking the cycle for them and their children, they gotta do that

People are skipping over the point of WORKING HARD... they have no answer for that... they don't see how destructive & irresponsible that would be in the long run...

But I doubt these nikkas even have jobs...

 

[Savior]

Normally Im always for workers rights but not in this case. Bottom line is fast food worker is a bottom tier job. If being a fast food worker is the highest u can aspire for in life u lost anyway. You cant raise the pay for a bottom tier job to one that requires actual schooling without fukking up the whole societal structure. If we wanna talk about cost of living being too high or minimum wage going up thats another thing. But we talking about doubling pay for fast food workers and nikkas are actually taking this seriously?

 

[Commander in Chiefin]

Dont you think its pretty obnoxious of you to tell people what the are worth in this society, and to discourage them from negotiating for more? Im sorry, is a fast food salary somehow a decree from God or something? Is it written in stone, or against the laws of humanity for them to fight for a livable wage?

Can you explain to me what exactly you're arguing? Dont you realize that you are taking an anti-capitalist position? So because big business has arbitrarily decided on an system of distribution to their workers, that means its set in stone? Its funny how capitalism only seems to work for those at top in these sort of debates. Corporate execs fck over the little man, and thats just life...Accept it. Working man tries to fight back and its "oh no!. You cant do that. You dont deserve that money, because we say so!!!!!!!!"

So their negotiating tactic is "I have a HS diploma, give me $15" Do you understand the art of negotiating ? You have to have something of value to offer in said negotiation. Again, if they were taking a training course, learning more about the business, then yes they have a leg to stand on in negotiations. But if you have nothing or little to offer, then thats what you get.

If you owned a home and paid a kid $20 to mow your lawn, then next week he said it was $40, to mow the same 10'x10' grass, you would blindly pay it no questions asked ? Cause that's basically what you are saying

And I'm far from at the top but I work my ass in my company. I started out making 23K doing maintenance and moving furniture around the office. Acquired more skills, kept learning the trade, and expanding my knowledge. That is how I was able to negotiate raises and positions. I now manage maintanence for 25 offices worldwide and have more than doubled my salary. I got boys in the mailroom that wonder how I moved up so fast but yet they're still handing out mail years later. They never bothered to learn any other aspect of their job. So I should blame my company and HR dept for not promoting my boys ?

You make you're own mark in this world, and can't expect people to just make it for you. These people need to aquire more skills if they want more money or a higher position in life. Don't just expect it. Why should people be rewarded for mediocrity ? Back to my example from another post, Should we start awarding A's to the kids who merely show up, just because the kid who studied got an A ?

I don't get why this is so hard to understand rather than arguing to arbitrarily pay people whatever the fukk they want.

 

[Rawtid]

You make you're own mark in this work, and can't expect people to just make it for you. These people need to aquire more skills if they want more money or a higher position in life. Don't just expect it. Why should people be rewarded for mediocrity ? Back to my example from another post, Should we start awarding A's to the kids who merely show up, just because the kid who studied got an A ?

I don't get why this is so hard to understand rather than arguing to arbitrarily pay people whatever the fukk they want.

Because the corporations make billions of dollars so they should just go ahead and break them off. It ain't tricking if you got it!!

 

[Egomaniacal1]

The chains would raise prices to compensate the extra wage expenses.

Didn't y'all niggros learn anything in high school economics?

Why not $30 and hour while they at it?

McDonald's will close those locations before they give nikkas a 50 percent raise to flip the same quarter pounders they was flippin last week.

like mcdonald's can't simply replace these cats with immigrant labor just happy as hell to be there.

Of course McDonalds and any major chain could do all these things but does that mean they SHOULD!! People need to start standing up against the bullshyt. McDonalds makes BILLIONS in revenue every single year so it's not even a question of if they can pay the higher wage, it's only a matter of will they...and we know they won't because of GREED. Doesn't make it right no matter what argument yall come with.

They don't have $20 an hour skills or education!! Why do they deserve that much? People won't even take a damn training class without bytching and complaining. School is the ant-Christ, yet somehow they should be paid a double digit wage? Naaahh.

Who has deemed their skills of lower quality or necessity than yours or anyone else's?!?! In any society you NEED ppl doing these so-called "lower skill" jobs but that doesn't mean they still shouldn't get paid for their contributions. They fulfill a need in society just as every other person that works. I don't subscribe to the field slave/house slave mentality...where if you was a house slave you had more worth than a field slave. Everybody who works is part of someone's workforce and should share in the profits especially when that employing entity is making BILLIONS upon BILLIONS every year.

 

[Ms~Opinionated]

Most of their jobs will become more automated anyways so they will end up unemployed, even if they get $15/hr.

McDonalds is not a career, it is a stepping stone until you can do better.

You don't have a career when anyone off the street can be trained for your job.

Rare and in demand skills command higher pay. Until they develop rarer skills, they will be worth what the market says someone at their skill level should get paid.

Supply and Demand.

 

[Rawtid]

Who has deemed their skills of lower quality or necessity than yours or anyone else's?!?! In any society you NEED ppl doing these so-called "lower skill" jobs but that doesn't mean they still shouldn't get paid for their contributions. They fulfill a need in society just as every other person that works. I don't subscribe to the field slave/house slave mentality...where if you was a house slave you had more worth than a field slave. Everybody who works is part of someone's workforce and should share in the profits especially when that employing entity is making BILLIONS upon BILLIONS every year.

So everyone should be paid the same wage no matter what they do?

 

[Ain't That Something]

So everyone should be paid the same wage no matter what they do?

Can't wait to see this answer.

 

[Kobes Two Jerseys]

This is the funniest shyt I've heard all day

You must not have read the article about law students suing their school because they can't find a job.

A Bunch of Young Lawyers are Suing Their Law Schools Because They Don't Have Jobs - Yahoo! Finance

 

[AAKing23]

You must not have read the article about law students suing their school because they can't find a job.

A Bunch of Young Lawyers are Suing Their Law Schools Because They Don't Have Jobs - Yahoo! Finance

I can actually see why they're mad tho,, they invested all that money into something they'd believe would pay off and got burnt


These law schools are pumping out too many degrees and basically robbing these students of money




But at the end of the day the students should be mad at themselves for the situation they're in You gotta do research on shyt before you invest in it and if you get burnt that's on you

 

[radio rahiem]

unions
my union is keeping me fed even while i'm at the bottom of the barrel
these fast food workers though, unless they're trying to better themselves somehow, they need to

 

[Egomaniacal1]

So everyone should be paid the same wage no matter what they do?

No not the same wage, but a much better wage. I'm only speaking in terms of corporate jobs here and these employees out here on the frontlines...but based on what employer you work for and how much they make in profits off their collective hard work, then yes i'm all for profit sharing.