Push for $15/hour: Fast food workers plan nationwide strike for Tuesday, November 10th

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Fox6now

MILWAUKEE — There is a revived push to boost the minimum wage and influence the 2016 elections.

Fast food workers are planning a nationwide strike this coming Tuesday, November 10th.

Workers from 270 cities are expected to walk out on their jobs — demanding a living wage of $15/hour and the right to unionize.

At the same time, thousands of protesters are expected to make their voices heard on Tuesday at the GOP Milwaukee debate — at the Milwaukee Theatre.





Read more: http://fox6now.com/2015/11/05/push-for-15hour-fast-food-workers-plan-nationwide-strike-for-tuesday-november-10th/

[Jester Messiah]

1. Is it too much to hope...

that while Mickey D's is closed, some people discover that there are other varieties of food than "fast?" That shit is terrible for you.

[Javaman]

2. terrible or not, people who work there need a living wage...

while 15 bucks an hour certainly isn't a living wage, it's still better than 9 bucks an hour.

and I had to guffaw out loud when Hillary proclaimed that minimum wage should be 12 bucks an hour. talk about out of touch.

[gvstn]

9. While the woman making your bed up in your hotel.

May not be the most skilled worker. She is working hard for her wages. That people who have never done any labor in their life say she is so stupid and should get a better job is disgusting. Who do they think will make their bed?

The woman/man does a good job and should be rewarded. A living wage is what has disappeared in America.

[uawchild]

3. The working poor continue to be exploited

If you are an adult and work full time and you can't live on the wages your job pays you, well, you don't have a job -- you have a form of wage-servitude reminiscent of sweatshops, sharecropping, and, yeah, I'll say it, even slavery.

In light of the corporate opposition to paying a living wage, imagine how worse things would be if, as the right wing wishes, there was no minimum wage at all. We would be hearing all the same arguments being used now to oppose a $15/hour wage being used to "explain" why even paying $5/hour would be "killing jobs" -- you know that's true.

[blackspade]

4. They have my support!

[Sunlei]

5. Come on Congress raise the Federal minimum to $15 an hour.

[Jimbo S]

6. $10.10 is fine

Minimum wage is not the same as a living wage.

I feel as though those supporting a $15/hr minimum wage has vetted it through.

[Javaman]

10. if minimum wage kept up with the cost of living, like it once did...

minimum wage would be 27 bucks.

you were saying?

[Jimbo S]

12. We're no longer living in post-war America

We're in a global economy now. The cost of living increases over the last 50 years is irrelevant.

I stand by my comment.

[Javaman]

13. LOL

you don't work a minimum wage job, do you?

[Jimbo S]

14. No, I don't

I didn't want to, so I bettered myself so I make more than minimum wage.

BTW, you don't in business, do you?

[Javaman]

15. Hmmm...

you might want to check your condescending attitude at the door. You won't win any friends that way.

you might wish to contemplate the old proverb of, "walking a mile in another's shoes" before you make ready assumptions about anyone or anything for that matter.

until you truly understand what it's like to live working minimum wage, you have no concept or idea of what you are talking about.

compassion for your fellow human is an amazing thing, regardless of how much you "bettered yourself".

[Jimbo S]

18. My response

I know this will offend some people, but the truth is some people are worth $25/hr, some are worth $15/hr, some $10/hr, and some who aren't worth two cents. The thing I have with the whole minimum wage debate is I haven't found any critical thinking displayed on this subject. We're liberals here, it's our side that does the critical thinking. Which brings me to unintended consequences. If a worker doing a job that pays $8/hr that suddenly jumps to $15/hr, all of a sudden a lot of other people want that job. People that are worth $15. Be careful what you wish for, many low-wage workers could find themselves either replaced by a higher quality employee, having a position eliminated or worse yet...automation. So no, I feel I don't totally lack empathy.

I'm cognitive that low-wage earners have a daily struggle. I made min wage + $0.40 working my way through college. Not the same as making it on my own, but it still sucked, plus it motivated me to finish college so I wouldn't work min wage again.

Finally, IMO the min wage should be set so that it's enough for one person to survive: shelter, heat, food, health care. $10.10 is clearly not enough for NYC nor San Francisco, but can be outside major urban centers. True, I've never had to make on my own on min wage, but if needed to, I could get by short-run. Say my wife and I make $10.10 full-time, that comes to $42,016 gross, $36,000 take home. Monthly expenses for rent ($800), heat ($100), food ($600), pre-subsidy ACA premium (say $300 each on SILVER), and ACA deductible ($3000 each). Min wage can cover that until I/we/one get find something better.

[LanternWaste]

19. your post accurately illustrates that...

"and some who aren't worth two cents"

The lack of relevancy, specificity, supporting evidence, and a conclusion in your post accurately illustrates that.

[Javaman]

20. so in other words, you are for a class society based on preconsceived ability.

taking a queue from India's caste system?

Or are some animals more equal than others?

wow.

critical thinking is not your forte'.

first allow people to make a living wage then give them raises based on merit.

that is how a normal society works.

[Reter]

16. You have to be over-estimating at least a little

I could live way above the living wage with $27 per hour. When I landed a job for $18.75 this Summer I felt like a big-shot.

[Javaman]

17. no, I'm not you aren't taking into account inflation. nt

On edit:

here is a good link to fill in the details...

The Minimum Wage Is Stuck at $7.25; It Should Be $21.16 — or Higher

http://inequality.org/minimum-wage/

here is another way to look at minimum wag: what does the cost of one hour of your life worth to you, when working?

[StrongBad]

7. I predict automation and replacement by computers within 10 years.

[Imajika]

11. Yup, fast food will just automate most of these jobs..

In 10 years most of the order takers will be gone, replaced by kiosks. The bulk of the cooking will also be automated as well. The remaining workers may get $15/hr, but there will be 2/3rds less of them and those that remain will be working all that much harder.

[romanic]

8. I've said it so many times

Raising the min wage to $15 won't mean shit if inflation and rising costs of living isn't addressed. Prices will continue to go up on basics necessities and housing to the point where a raise in wages still aren't "enough to get by".