Fast food workers strike, demanding $15 an hour

[Ain't That Something]

shyt if McfukkingDonald's paying 15 an hour I'm gone get a part time there too

 

[Commander in Chiefin]

actually it is a skill
and knowing that many dont have it
I do mention it in interviews

I work in a highly stressful work environment in Afghanistan where some of my co-workers have died so YES self control is a skill

Self control is not a skill. Maybe it is in your military camp environment dealing with crazy jarheads and nikkas with PTSD, but in the real world, self control is a sociatal virtue. Thats what one of the things that separates man from animal

 

[CrimsonTider]

There are some entry level positions out of college that don't pay $15/hr, you mean to tell me flipping burgers going to pay that much? I don't see that happening.

There are jobs that don't require a college degree that pay 28 dollars/hr

What's your point?

 

[Tommy Knocks]

I think people are forgetting what state this is. in NY $15 is still minimum wage, you aint getting an 1 bedroom except in the Bronx for that. They do need to up the wage for them, NY is becoming super expensive.

Now if you said $15 for Tennessee or some shyt I would be like

 

[Tommy Knocks]

Oh and im tired of people blaming the bottom man for prices of the product being raised. If you up their wage, that doesnt mean the company has to up the price of the product, they're already making an INSANE amount of profit, people should be upset that they won't negotiate to cut out of some of it for the bottom man that pretty much makes the company function.

If mcdonalds ups their menu, BOYCOTT those pricks. Some rich guys who make too much can't sprinkle down some crumbs? tf is that.

 

[Ain't That Something]

So Are The Managers Going To Make 25-30 An Hour Now

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Y'all act like there are a plethora of better paying non skilled opportunities out there , retail pays just as shytty. Garbage man? Civil jobs are locked up, You're not getting those jobs unless you have an inside contact. A lot of people don't have skills and are trying to survive, they have that right, sadly the job prospects are low...someone has to work these jobs - there are only so many secretary, assembly line, erc jobs out there. Then let's not even talk about the bullshyt justice systems where minorities catch felonies for bogus drug laws, they end up stuck with these jobs as the only option as well. Lastly, y'all worried about dollar menus and capitalism when it's your tax dollars that subsidize these workers. Last stat I remember is like $1bn in tax dollars go to support wal-mart's US workforce based on all the social services they need to survive. You're telling me a company with $492b in revenus and $17bn in profit can't reinvest the $1bn needed to properly support it's workers?

Side with corporate greed brehs.

 

[HarlemsOwn]

Y'all act like there are a plethora of better paying non skilled opportunities out there , retail pays just as shytty. Garbage man? Civil jobs are locked up, You're not getting those jobs unless you have an inside contact. A lot of people don't have skills and are trying to survive, they have that right, sadly the job prospects are low...someone has to work these jobs - there are only so many secretary, assembly line, erc jobs out there. Then let's not even talk about the bullshyt justice systems where minorities catch felonies for bogus drug laws, they end up stuck with these jobs as the only option as well. Lastly, y'all worried about dollar menus and capitalism when it's your tax dollars that subsidize these workers. Last stat I remember is like $1bn in tax dollars go to support wal-mart's US workforce based on all the social services they need to survive. You're telling me a company with $492b in revenus and $17bn in profit can't reinvest the $1bn needed to properly support it's workers?

Side with corporate greed brehs.

everything you said is A1....

but why would i reinvest a billion when i could pocket that

nikkas still gonna work these jobs if them ppl quit

but it is what it is tho

nikkas shoulda went to school

 

[Just like bruddas]

15?

How bout 11

 

[Ain't That Something]

Y'all act like there are a plethora of better paying non skilled opportunities out there , retail pays just as shytty. Garbage man? Civil jobs are locked up, You're not getting those jobs unless you have an inside contact. A lot of people don't have skills and are trying to survive, they have that right, sadly the job prospects are low...someone has to work these jobs - there are only so many secretary, assembly line, erc jobs out there. Then let's not even talk about the bullshyt justice systems where minorities catch felonies for bogus drug laws, they end up stuck with these jobs as the only option as well. Lastly, y'all worried about dollar menus and capitalism when it's your tax dollars that subsidize these workers. Last stat I remember is like $1bn in tax dollars go to support wal-mart's US workforce based on all the social services they need to survive. You're telling me a company with $492b in revenus and $17bn in profit can't reinvest the $1bn needed to properly support it's workers?

Side with corporate greed brehs.

breh The Only Thing Raising The Pay Of Th Unskilled Laborer Going To Do Is Destroy That Very Workforce. To Cust Cost Companies Going To Go The Automation Route.

http://econfuture.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/could-fast-food-automation-replace-low-wage-workers/

 

[Atlrocafella]

There are jobs that don't require a college degree that pay 28 dollars/hr

What's your point?

What job that pays $28/hr is as easy as flipping burgers?

 

[CrimsonTider]

No wealth does not come out of thin air, but it doesn't come from the government either.

Wealth starts with good ideas that create good jobs. Capitalism is a very messed up system, but it is the only system with historical success.

Businesses are the engine of the economy. Without businesses there would be no jobs. Without it there would be nobody to tax. Without it there would be a very small government. Governments are only able to provide jobs because they taxed the money from businesses and the employees of businesses.

Governments by themselves cannot create jobs. Governments do borrow, but they wouldn't be able to borrow if they didn't have tax revenue to prove their ability to repay. So our functioning economy depends on businesses to provide jobs, so those jobs can be taxed and so that the gov't can provide necessary jobs and help the needy.

So real wealth starts with someone having an idea of a product or service they can provide that they think there would be demand for. This ultimately benefits many people in the economy. It benefits the user of this new and amazing product, the employees, the government, shareholders in the company, and the broader economy.

I am sorry that this is the slow way to recovery, not the trillion dollar bail out way. Immigrants coming here know this. I just watched a corner store that has been owned by middle easterners for as long as I remember get bought buy some Dominicans. I am so tired of seeing that.

The biggest wealth destroyer is the government, no lie. Its a very complicated system, but wealth has always been created in the above fashion. Even immigrants coming from the most communistic countries recognize this. It took China, what, 30 years of capitalism to increase the standard of living for their people, pollute their rivers, and rob us blind. lmao

My introduction to these things came from a few professors, but later a book called Naked Economics. It is a very good book and politically unbiased, imho. All the confusing pieces fall in place. It's a little above $10 on Amazon right now. You should buy it. Much later I read Milton Friedman's Free to Choose and I left my old liberal idealist self behind.

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Like I said I do believe capitalism has its inherent flaws, but no system is perfect. Capitalism is very slow to fix itself, unless it is cheaper to do so. New technologies to stop/slow pollution from factories need to still be created. Technology that replaces cancer causing agents in products is needed. Technology that will create new materials to use in products instead rare and diminishing resources is needed. Nonetheless, it has come long way. The best thing about capitalism is that it creates better,cheaper,easier ways to do things, most of the time without being told.

Shut up

15?

How bout 11

What's them making 4 dollars more to you?

What job that pays $28/hr is as easy as flipping burgers?

Most unionized assembly jobs pay 20 plus for the same requirements as flipping burgers

 

[Turbulent]

A man should have the right to demand whatever he wants from his job. if they want to ask for 25$ an hour, they have the right to. Just like The company has the right to refuse. They're making billions but as long as they respect labor laws it should be cool. just like if they raise prices, you have the right to stop eating there. I'll never be against a worker trying to better his conditions no matter how "unreasonable" it sounds.

where i'm kind of iffy is if corporations are lobbying to influence labor laws...

 

[Just like bruddas]

Shut up


What's them making 4 dollars more to you?


Most unionized assembly jobs pay 20 plus for the same requirements as flipping burgers

actually I make 13.25 an hour.

Just saying min wage should be 11 bucks

 

[Kings County]

$15.... for what?

You got a shyt job... work 2. Know your place in society. You picked this shyt between age 5-20 while in school K-college

u cant be serious breh, u just cant