Fast Food Worker Strikes!

[cronus]

American dinosaur companies need a small very well looked after brain. Plenty of muscle. And muscle is cheap around food.

[Sean Hayden]

So if McDonald's has a bad year and takes a loss, all those people should work for free for a year?

I don't understand how this addresses concerns about working for an increasingly profitable company while seeing significant raises only go to the top, and no increase in starting pay.

The question comes across like you're trying to convince an employee that it is in their best interests to accept less pay today despite increasing profits rewarding the top because if things should go bad tomorrow they may still earn their current wage.

[Tyrannical]

If McDonalds had to pay $15 an hour, they'd be a lot pickier about who they did hire. I bet a great many current employees would be let go and replaced with those worth $15 an hour. Illegal immigrants, school dropouts, and ex-cons would be the first to go.

[Warren Dew]

So if McDonald's has a bad year and takes a loss, all those people should work for free for a year?

I don't understand how this addresses concerns about working for an increasingly profitable company

I don't see how there are any concerns. The fact is, profits vary a lot from year to year, and wages don't. That's the way it should be. If workers want more than usual in the good years, they have to be willing to accept less than usual in the bad years.

[Svartalf]

and let go their most experienced workers? I can get not letting ex cons near the tills, but school dropouts are as good at flipping burgers as college boys, if not better, and illegals can be pressured into giving you more for your $15 than a legal worker.

[Tyrannical]

and let go their most experienced workers? I can get not letting ex cons near the tills, but school dropouts are as good at flipping burgers as college boys, if not better, and illegals can be pressured into giving you more for your $15 than a legal worker.

Or we'd go back to the day when fast food workers were professionals.

[Svartalf]

because those professionals weren't high school dropouts?

[rainbow]

and let go their most experienced workers? I can get not letting ex cons near the tills, but school dropouts are as good at flipping burgers as college boys, if not better, and illegals can be pressured into giving you more for your $15 than a legal worker.

Or we'd go back to the day when fast food workers were professionals.

Which one was you?

[Svartalf]

[Clinton Huxley]

If the poor would stop being so damned greedy, the rest of us would be much better off.

[Svartalf]

Let's have a little war and ravage their fields so they'll stop bothering us.

[Clinton Huxley]

People being paid pushes up the price of everything. People should work for nothing.

[Svartalf]

We still ought to be gracious to the serfs and other menials

[Clinton Huxley]

We still ought to be gracious to the serfs and other menials

That sets up expectations that can't be met.

[Tyrannical]

and let go their most experienced workers? I can get not letting ex cons near the tills, but school dropouts are as good at flipping burgers as college boys, if not better, and illegals can be pressured into giving you more for your $15 than a legal worker.

Or we'd go back to the day when fast food workers were professionals.

Which one was you?

None, my white hat is a bit taller and pointier than theirs