Fast food workers strike: Fire 'em all.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/29/fast-food-workers-to-strike-nationwide-over-wages/

I would fire every last one of them.

 

Like I have said previously, they should realize there are more people in line for their job than there are for the burgers.

 

Give them higher wages so they can be replaced with automation.....it is about time.

 

The lack of awareness among some illustrates the challenge workers face. Participating workers, who are asking for $15 an hour, still represent a tiny fraction of the industry. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, which works out to about $15,000 a year for full-time employees.

The movement comes amid calls from the White House, some members of Congress and economists to hike the federal minimum wage. But most proposals seek a far more modest increase than the one workers are asking for, with President Barack Obama wanting to boost it to $9 an hour.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Associate Press, Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said the strikes are another sign of the need to raise the minimum wage for all workers. He compared the protests to the demands of demonstrators in the 1963 March on Washington, who sought a national minimum wage to give workers better living standards.

"For all too many people working minimum wage jobs, the rungs on the ladder of opportunity are feeling further and further apart," said Perez, who's taking a lead role in Obama's push to boost the minimum wage.

The Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 2 million works in health care, janitorial and other industries, has been providing financial support and training for local organizers around the country.

Organizers say the strikes will hit more than 50 cities on Thursday, following a series of strikes that began last November in New York City. The biggest effort so far was over the summer when about 2,200 of the country's millions of fast-food workers staged a one-day strike in seven cities.

Ryan Carter, a 29-year-old who was walking out of the McDonald's where workers demonstrated on Thursday, said he "absolutely" supported workers demand for higher wages.

"They work harder than the billionaires in this city," he said. But Carter, who was holding a cup of the chain's coffee he bought for $1, said he didn't plan to stop his regular trips to McDonald's.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/29...de-over-wages/

 

If you find yourself working at a fast food joint over the age of 22, you have no one to blame but yourself.

People act as if every job that pays min wage is at a mega corporation. Raising the min wage will impact many more places than the mega corporations that have the giant profits.

 

I saw a graph/chart that had the possibility of changing my mind, however I never got to examine it unfortunately...

It basically showed that at a certain dollar amount, certain types of welfare would no longer be available because they made more than the subsidy called for. If this were true depending on how much tax dollars we saved, I could be for it (think it was $10.25).

PUT YOUR HYPOTHETICAL HATS ON!!!!
If say 30% of their employees are minimum wage, then we would have a say 30% min wage increase, they would see their labor increase by 9%.

This could much more easily be shifted, with higher margins on perhaps one high volume item or a few things. I have seen studies on what nominal items can do, say .25% per coffee

--- ok, few glasses of wine, end rant. I just figure a little bit of socialism may save a little bit of tax payer dollars wasted by socialism. Hmm....

 

POOR PEOPLE UNITE! There are more of us (poor) than rich.

 

It is simple "strikes" now. What happens when this escalates. Do Americans really want main street USA to look like Cario Egypt?

 

I'm sure that owners. managers have enough resume's in their files to hire all new people on Thursday.

 

By the numbers minimum wage should be around 22 dollars if they actually kept pace with the top 1 percent who have gotten a free ride because of Republicans

 

Did you just cut and paste a story? You need to say where it came from and provide a link if you do.

 

Obama can't wait for that...that is what all this is about and many other things he's doing. He wants blood in the streets then he can declare Martial law...Things will be so bad the people will beg the government for a solution, just what they want....prolly before the next presidential election. Why do you think the government has bought all these guns and ammo and police dept. have acquired armored cars and tanks.

 

I wish them luck. But companies like McD's wield way too much power for these types of actions to have much affect without serious solidarity from the community. And in America people in food service and retail jobs generally aren’t given a second thought by the community at large. They just aren't important enough in the capitalist hierarchy.

 

How many loyal, hard working and skill set heavy workers who can multitask earn the minimum wage in the industry? One disabled friend is not going to strike earns $10.75 an hour at local franchise McD's.

 

You can't; its against the law. Live with it.

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Conditions must be so bad there, that they don't care either way.

 

It is not McDonald's corporation that sets workers compensation, it is the franchisee, which very often is a family, small business.

 

In Florida its a right to work state refusing to show up to work is a reason to fire a worker.

 

They could always stay at home and not work and collect welfare.

 

You've been reading to many Tom Clancy novels.

 

Do you really think people here in the US will make the effort to pry the TV remote from their Dorito stained hands long enough to take to the streets? LOL!

 

I beg to differ; Federal law (NLRA of 1935) says that legally concerted activity (2 or more people) is protected and the employer may not retaliate against them. It supersedes state law.

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We'll soon see won't we?

 

Good luck with that federal law. If an employer wants to can someone they will for whatever reason they want.

We already have. Remember the OWS movement that turned out to be nothing but a popcorn fart?

 

Why? Do you need a job?

 

Not true. I have fired people in the USA. Legal advice was that as soon as you start to give reasons you open yourself to a law suit. The advice was to be very vague and evasive about why you were firing someone. You cannot fire people for "any reason you want". But you can fire someone for practically no reason at all.

 

So you are saying you can fire someone for any reason you want as long as you are vague about it. Thanks for proving me correct.