Fast-food strikes aim at 100 cities

Haha I can relate to this. If they strike or raise prices maybe Ill stop eating it!

 

If I owned the franchise and you walked off the job you would be replaced. Walking out = voluntary termination of employment.

 

I'd love it....

millions of fast food workers go from $7.25 an hour to $0.00 an hour in one day.

 

Oysters?

 

So, I gotta ask...do you? Really, you could leave generous tips to each employee at McDonald's (pick your fast food place of choice) anytime.

I've done it. At the IHOP in Oxford there's an older lady I'm sure would rather be retired and even on a $6.00 tab I leave a $20.00 or higher tip because I feel sorry for her. You could do the same...I mean if people are willing to pay it, nothing is stopping them.

 

A jump in minimum wage from 7 something to 10 or 15 is ridiculous. The prices of everything will jump up and just get rediculous.

I'm sorry, an base level job does deserve 10 to 15 an hour. It's not that hard to wait a little while and get a raise.

 

I always kind of assumed fast food places(Mcdonalds,Burger King, Tacobell,etc) have high school aged kids doing most of the work. The managers/asst managers being adult aged people. These places based their entire wage schedule on this assumption, too. I thought living well had to be earned, not given. Just my opinion.

 

No fast food worker should be making $15 an hour. I work in retail (I'm a college student) and even my supervisors don't make that. And I damn sure wouldn't walk off the job to protest for $15 an hour, either.
If I ran a fast food joint and my employees protested I would fire all of them. That's Capitalism. You shouldn't be making a career out of a part-time low-level service position

 

AMEN. That's the biggest problem with this country

 

The big problem is the fact with the wages they make it puts them on public assistance and that we all pay for. The amount of a workable wage would affect the price of a big mac a few cents. One of the co. actually counsels their employees on how to obtain food stamps and other low income programs instead of paying them a decent wage. Wal-Mart’s profit last year was in excess of 15 billion dollars yes profit not gross so how did they share this with the employees? By putting food collection bins in the stores employee’s lounge for their under paid employees so they might have enough food for their kids.

 

Yes but be prepared to wait a very long time a huge raise at Wal-Mart is 60 cents an hour and they are few and far between. Their ads on TV are pure B.S.

 

Well you assumed wrong the average workers age is 30 and going up. And guess what they are married and have kids. Corporate numbers keep going up and workers wages remain the same.

 

So global sales at Walmart are about $450B with a $16B profit, that's less than a 4% net. Not really much to write home about. Additionally, with just the 1.4M based US employees, roughly a $5 an hour raise would move Wally into the red.

I'm all for everyone making as much as they can but, companies have to survive & pay investors back.

Government assistance is a separate issue. Walmart does not set the threshold of who "we the people" decide should receive assistance. Judging by the financial shape of the US I'm not sure it's a good standard to use.

 

Don't agree with Walmart's profits...don't shop there and don't work there

 

if you are in your 30'[s working fast food full time and arent a manager/owner/gen manager, then you made some poor life decisions at some point in time

assuming not disabled or handicapped

 

I'm with you Larry. We live a world where we think we need 1,000s of people creating new regulations to protect us. How did our ansestors ever survive? Think about it, if the people of 200 years ago were of the same mentality as most of the people today the US wouldn't exist. I'm not saying some if the employer "abuse" that occurred years ago is correct but, this is a different era with a different "hand me something" mentality. There's a sea of opputunity in this country with the road paved and paid for by someone else. I'm convenced and it's easy to see why the US is fading.

 

Correct

Actually, the early settlers tried a communal approach and near starved to death. William Bradford instituted a free market system and the birth of American capitalism was born. (Fitting, following thanksgiving weekend)

 

This is a revolving problem. Fix the government and you could essentially fix this. Employees that make minimum wage at any job that are ADULTS are most likely on some sort of government assistance. Taxpayers pay them to survive. Yes they may make 14k per year but they also pry make 14k in government assistance.

If they get a raise what should happen is lowering of taxes. Since less government assistance should be needed.

I have always felt you get what you work for and therefore not too fond of this. Change in government is needed more than this.

 

I admit some of the thoughts and theories here lead an interesting conversation, but the APPLICATION is what is damn near impossible to come by. Sure we COULD lower taxes if the minimum wage goes up, but will that actually happen? Sure we COULD change the public assistance amounts since the minimum wage would increase, but is that what will really happen? Increasing the minimum wage to help those who earn minimum is like placing a small band-aid on a gunshot wound. It may help a tiny bit, but eventually you will still bleed to death.

 

No, (IMO) we really couldn't lower taxes if wages went up. The people earning the cash would be paying less income tax than the companies otherwise would be earning that same case as profit. I don't believe the volocity or speed at which the $$ changed hands would improve enough to offset the lower rate either. As a nation and individules we've become addicted to debt. Out country is $17T in debt with a budget deficit of $600B+ this year going on top of it and there's no end in sight. I don't give a fuck "who's fault it is" I just want an elected official to not spend more to buy votes. And fix it through real cuts and if needed realistic temporary tax increases.

And, IMO, that's a big part if our problem. We've become accustom to expecting things that 100, 50 or 25 years ago were unheard of...who in 1988 would have guessed having a cell phone is a right and the government would pay for it?

As individules we've become the same way. I grew up in a traditional household (parents married just once & dad worked with mom staying home) with one landline PARTY phone. We grew our own fruits and vegetables and mom canned, made jellies & bread. We raised our own beef, poultry & pork. Didn't have a/c and heated with wood. We only owned one car, when my father was at work guess what, we walked or biked if we wanted to go somewhere. And my mother made many of our cloths and hand washed our cloth diapers. We didn't own a dryer and out cloths wringer & ice cream maker were hand powered...

These people that think they're poor don't have a fucking clue. There are so many public assistance programs..."we the people" provide. it's not only heat, food & housing we also provide higher education, cell phones, insurance and more. A lot of younger generations (and the brainwashed) has been use to living off the fat and think its a right. Those who could take care of themselves should, those who can't (because of a handicap or SHORT term unemployment) should be helped. Those who can and don't disgust me.

I'm ready to go write my own country song now...but it is all true.