Support the fast food workers

[DigitalDrifter]

Fast food jobs were never intended to be more than entry level jobs. These people need to pay their dues, and not be handed this high of a wage until they've been around the block a while first.
These workers need to realize that this is where they learn work ethic and other skills, and then the idea is to move on and improve your marketability in the work force where you earn the higher wages.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Millions of people, mostly adults, who can't afford rent if they want to eat.

And immediately off the rails with the hyperbole meter pegged at 11.

She is basically saying people who work in fast food restaurants are either starving or homeless. What a crock of shit, I submit the overwhelming majority are neither. Hell I'd wonder what percentage have smart phones.

I'll support them indirectly by buying a big mac today.

You know little about low paid workers.

I knew enough to say screw this I'm going to apply myself and find better employment.
I dont want to be part of the 3% ....

 

[Katzndogz]

This is being driven by the unions who want those dues.

The technology is there to use an internal communication system for a customer to log into the automated ordering system, pay by credit or debit card and pick up the order from a window. At most two people could handle a normal burger joint. No more robberies either. No cash on hand.

The unions will strike workers right into unemployment.

 

[PredFan]

This is being driven by the unions who want those dues.

The technology is there to use an internal communication system for a customer to log into the automated ordering system, pay by credit or debit card and pick up the order from a window. At most two people could handle a normal burger joint. No more robberies either. No cash on hand.

The unions will strike workers right into unemployment.

They don't care because they will have made millions by the time that happens.

 

[blastoff]

Yeah, get rid of the phones, cable, fancy TVs, and other stuff you don't know you can't afford and see how much farther that paycheck goes.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Why do you hate the working poor so much?

Don't hate them. Just pointing out how much better off they'd be living within their means. Know that's a radical idea nowadays but it worked for decades/generations of folks who came before them.

 

[Two Thumbs]

The email below is from Nancy Salgado, who makes $8.25 an hour working at a McDonald's in Chicago. Nancy started a petition on CREDO Mobilize, where activists can launch their own campaigns for progressive change. Will you help Nancy and thousands of her coworkers who are going on strike today to pressure fast food giants to pay their workers a fair wage by signing her petition and sharing it with your friends and family?
CREDO Mobilize
Tell America's fast-food giants: The time is now to raise wages for your workers!

" Sign the petition ►


Today I'm joining a national strike against low pay by thousands of fast food workers in cities across the country.

I'm on strike because I can't make ends meet on low hours and the $8.25/hour I make at McDonald's in Chicago. Because each month I have to make hard choices -- like which meal to skip, or which bill not to pay - just so that my kids and I can get by. No one who works for a living should have to make those choices. And I want more for my kids -- and their future -- than just barely "getting by."

Will you join me and add your name to my petition to demand that the nation's eight largest fast-food chains raise the wages of their workers today?

On behalf of striking fast-food workers across the country, I started my own campaign on CREDO's new site that allows activists to start their own petitions. My petition, which is to McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, Domino's and Papa John's, asks the following:

Together, your restaurants employ millions of people. Millions of people, mostly adults, who can't afford rent if they want to eat. Who can't afford health care if they want to pay their bus fare. Millions of people, and more than 25% of them are parents who can't afford school supplies if they also have to buy school shoes.

Last year your combined profits were $7.35 billion. Yet you still paid most of your workers less than $11,200 a year – poverty wages. It’s shameful. And outrageous.

We call on you to raise wages for your workers.

By now, everyone knows that fast food employees like me can’t make ends meet on minimum wage or barely more. They know how incredibly profitable -- and out of touch -- the corporations we work for are. They know – and you know – that something has to change. Starting now.

We need to know you have our backs -- please help us send the fast food chains we work for a message that people are with us in this fight.

Add your name to my petition to demand that the nation's eight largest fast-food chains raise the wages of their workers today.

Thank you for your support.

Nancy Salgado

Sign the petition ►
CREDO Mobilize helps activists like you make progressive change and fight regressive policies by creating online petitions. Click here to start a petition today."

I have signed this petition. Go here to sign. National strike: Help us be loud! | CREDO Mobilize

I'd like to note that this lazy fucking **** has more than 1 kid.

tell that twat to get off her ass, keep her legs closed and get a second job or WORK at a job that pays more.

 

[Katzndogz]

So far the people aren't with them in this fight.

 

[Politico]

I am totally in support of those hard working fast food managers. Replacing all those clowns is going to be a lot of work. Where do I sign?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today

 

[Unkotare]

So.............she didn't know what the pay was when she took the job?

 

[Vox]

If she does not like her job, she should change it
If she would have a better education she would know that changing the minimum wage won't improve anything in her particular life.

But people don't think, they just parrot the new slogan.

For today it is "increase the minimum wage"

 

[Vox]

Yeah, get rid of the phones, cable, fancy TVs, and other stuff you don't know you can't afford and see how much farther that paycheck goes.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Why do you hate the working poor so much?

Don't hate them. Just pointing out how much better off they'd be living within their means. Know that's a radical idea nowadays but it worked for decades/generations of folks who came before them.

still works for millions of immigrants, who know how to SAVE and live withing their means in order to achieve anything.

 

[Vox]

Yeah, get rid of the phones, cable, fancy TVs, and other stuff you don't know you can't afford and see how much farther that paycheck goes.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Why do you hate the working poor so much?

Neither do you.

you are just parroting today's talking points from the libtard brainwashing machine

 

[Vox]

Millions of people, mostly adults, who can't afford rent if they want to eat.

And immediately off the rails with the hyperbole meter pegged at 11.

She is basically saying people who work in fast food restaurants are either starving or homeless. What a crock of shit, I submit the overwhelming majority are neither. Hell I'd wonder what percentage have smart phones.

I'll support them indirectly by buying a big mac today.

You know little about low paid workers.

and you don't know anything at all.

 

[WillowTree]

Entry level nurses start at 15 bucks an hour after 3-4 years of school. why should a high school drop out start at 15 bucks an hour?

 

[Two Thumbs]

Entry level nurses start at 15 bucks an hour after 3-4 years of school. why should a high school drop out start at 15 bucks an hour?

Because...

b/c..

thinking

racist

 

[jknowgood]

When i was younger fast food jobs were for high school students, college students, or retired people looking for an easy job to give them something to do. I guess in an obama economy low paying jobs are the norm.

 

[Darkwind]

Yeah, get rid of the phones, cable, fancy TVs, and other stuff you don't know you can't afford and see how much farther that paycheck goes.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Why do you hate the working poor so much?

Because, after ten years of working for low wage, I simply cannot bring Myself to have any sympathy.

Perhaps, and I know this is a long shot for you, but just perhaps, the problem isnt' the wage, but the person?

 

[Snookie]

Yeah, get rid of the phones, cable, fancy TVs, and other stuff you don't know you can't afford and see how much farther that paycheck goes.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Why do you hate the working poor so much?

Because, after ten years of working for low wage, I simply cannot bring Myself to have any sympathy.

Perhaps, and I know this is a long shot for you, but just perhaps, the problem isnt' the wage, but the person?

Evidently you failed arithmetic.

 

[Snookie]

Entry level nurses start at 15 bucks an hour after 3-4 years of school. why should a high school drop out start at 15 bucks an hour?

Raise the entry level nurses wage to 25 dollars an hour.