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2013-08-29 Economy

Fast food strikes to hit cities across the country

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Posted by Fred 2013-08-29 09:09|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Organizers say thousands of fast-food workers are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the country Thursday, part of a push to get chains such as McDonald's, Taco Bell and Wendy's to ~~pay workers higher wages~~ automate more of the cooking tasks....

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-08-29 10:31|| 2013-08-29 10:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Dan T. Cathy and Donald (Bubba) M. Cathy smile.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-29 10:35|| 2013-08-29 10:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Limited prospects huh. If I were looking for an extra job I'd show up at one of these places at 06:00 with bells and work shoes on.

2,200 of 1,000,000 = 0.0022, so much less than 1%, looks like the rags are agitating for at least 5 times that turnout.

Which would make them 1%'rs har har.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-08-29 11:01|| 2013-08-29 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Fire them all.
There's others who want to work.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-08-29 11:51|| 2013-08-29 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Town of Sea-Tac has an initiative on the fall ballot for just such a pay hike for the service workers.....Can hardly wait to see how it fares.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2013-08-29 20:33|| 2013-08-29 20:33|| Front Page Top

#6 KFI-LA Radio ran a street protest line interview - of the 17 interviewed, one (1) was an actual FF worker. The rest were SEIU and UFCW union workers bussed in and to try and unionize the min wage workers. Self-admitted, with purple wrist bands to indicate they got a free lunch

Posted by Frank G 2013-08-29 20:54|| 2013-08-29 20:54|| Front Page Top

#7 All makes since after a Rantburger posted a few days ago that union pay is linked to a multiple of the minimum wage.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-08-29 21:48|| 2013-08-29 21:48|| Front Page Top

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