Black Money Business Jobs : McDonald’s Should Share Billions in Profits With Fast Food Workers: Labor Organizer

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Fast-food workers protests

Police handcuffed several protesters in New York and Detroit on Thursday as they blocked traffic in the latest attempt to escalate their efforts to get McDonald's, Burger King and other fast-food companies to pay their employees at least $15 an hour.

The protests, which are planned by labor organizers for about 150 cities nationwide throughout Thursday, are part of the "Fight for $15" campaign. Since the protests began in late 2012, organizers have switched up their tactics every few months. (AP)

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/fast-food-worker-protests-1409837384-slideshow/

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Fast-food worker protests planned for more than 150 U.S. cities

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and organizers said more than 450 were arrested from Manhattan's Times Square to Los Angeles.

About 400 protesters clogged Times Square during morning rush hour in the latest of ongoing actions aimed at raising their wage to $15 an hour.

They hoisted placards reading "Stick together for $15 and union rights," and some held a sit-in at a McDonald's restaurant, prompting 19 arrests for disorderly conduct.


http://news.yahoo.com/u-fast-food-workers-set-walkouts-demand-wage-041533064--finance.html

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Here's What the Owner of the Oldest Operating McDonald's Has to Say About Minimum Wage

Sixty-one years ago last month, the third-ever McDonald's opened in Downey, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles and home to Apollo, the third-ever NASA manned spaceflight program. McDonald's went to 119 countries from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Apollo went to the moon.


The Minimum Wage
If that story sounds a bit old school, it's because Piazza (and many other business owners like him) still believe that hard work is the pathway to both advancement and wages.

When you raise the minimum wage you’re asking everybody to weigh in on the poverty situation. What you’re not saying is that the job is worth any more.
As he recently told a junior high school: "There is so much opportunity in America for those who want to work hard."
http://news.yahoo.com/heres-owner-oldest-operating-mcdonalds-minimum-wage-172319373.html



Simply not true Mr. Owner, when the minimum wage is raised, it speaks to a "living wage" necessary to go along with higher prices and higher profits earned ...


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I have no sympathy for an able-bodied adult over 21 making around minimum wage, especially if you call yourself a man.

There are so many things that you can do for yourself to not end up making poverty wages.

- Get Financial Aid and go to a Community College. Get a marketable degree like Accounting, Nursing or whatever and then you should eventually AT LEAST make $15/hr. If you have good performance then you can even go to a 4-year college for free.
- If the college route is not for you then go to trade school...medical assistants, nurses aides, electricians, plumbers, carpenters usually make over $15/hr
- If you live in a struggling region then PLAN a move. I know it's easier said than done but even if it means spending a couple of months in a homeless shelter in the new city or putting away $40/week at your current job and slowly gaining the means.
($40/wk x 52 weeks = 2,080/yr, that's enough for a down payment and a couple months rent in some regions)

Whatever happened to investing in yourself and planning your future? Yes, of course some ppl have it harder in America than others but there is so much you can do.

I worked at McDonalds from the time I was 14-16 and I used it as a STEPPING STONE for better jobs. It's sad if they gouge up the pay b/c that means that they will hire much less ppl to offset the costs and less teens will have jobs that they can use as a stepping stone for bigger and better things. The teens and the elderly will ultimately be the biggest losers.

Aim high, people!

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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That approach is quite hard line and insensitive to take with such a broad brush stroke, aimed at the needy ...

I have no sympathy for an able-bodied adult over 21 making around minimum wage, especially if you call yourself a man.

There are so many things that you can do for yourself to not end up making poverty wages.

- Get Financial Aid and go to a Community College. Get a marketable degree like Accounting, Nursing or whatever and then you should eventually AT LEAST make $15/hr. If you have good performance then you can even go to a 4-year college for free.
- If the college route is not for you then go to trade school...medical assistants, nurses aides, electricians, plumbers, carpenters usually make over $15/hr
- If you live in a struggling region then PLAN a move. I know it's easier said than done but even if it means spending a couple of months in a homeless shelter in the new city or putting away $40/week at your current job and slowly gaining the means.
($40/wk x 52 weeks = 2,080/yr, that's enough for a down payment and a couple months rent in some regions)

Whatever happened to investing in yourself and planning your future? Yes, of course some ppl have it harder in America than others but there is so much you can do.

I worked at McDonalds from the time I was 14-16 and I used it as a STEPPING STONE for better jobs. It's sad if they gouge up the pay b/c that means that they will hire much less ppl to offset the costs and less teens will have jobs that they can use as a stepping stone for bigger and better things. The teens and the elderly will ultimately be the biggest losers.

Aim high, people!