"Thousands" of min-wage McDonalds workers to walk off jobs to demand better pay

[JEDI]

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/07/29/americas-hourly-wage-battle-heats-up/?source=cnn_bin

Thousands of such workers are planning a walkout this week, temporarily exiting their jobs at outlets like McDonald's in seven or more cities, including New York, to demand a bigger paycheck.


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[Josh123]

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/07/29/americas-hourly-wage-battle-heats-up/?source=cnn_bin

Thousands of such workers are planning a walkout this week, temporarily exiting their jobs at outlets like McDonald's in seven or more cities, including New York, to demand a bigger paycheck.


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[PenguinPower]

:hmm:

At least...they are planning for it to be temporary. Then, when they return, ER says "Surprise! You're fired!"

 

[soulcougher73]

They will just be fired and replaced by others happy to work min-wage unfortunatly.

 

[silverpig]

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/07/29/americas-hourly-wage-battle-heats-up/?source=cnn_bin

Thousands of such workers are planning a walkout this week, temporarily exiting their jobs at outlets like McDonald's in seven or more cities, including New York, to demand a bigger paycheck.


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What's so funny?

 

[purbeast0]

LOL!

demanding $15/hr from their $7.25/hr or whatever it is. so they believe they should get double the wage for doing the same exact job they've happily been doing for a while.

retarded.

if they want a higher paying job, get a job that 14 year olds can't do.

EDIT:

this just screams the whole "entitlement" attitude that people have now a days.

 

[Centauri]

What's so funny?

Same question.

 

[highland145]

LOL!

demanding $15/hr from their $7.25/hr or whatever it is. so they believe they should get double the wage for doing the same exact job they've happily been doing for a while.

retarded.

if they want a higher paying job, get a job that 14 year olds can't do.

And they surely don't plan on doubling their productivity either.

 

[Wyndru]

It's a tough call, because in some cases the state minimum wage is fine for employees in the majority of the state, but in a city like NYC it's no where near possible to survive on.

It's too bad they can't alter minimum wage a little more specifically based on geographic location and average income for the area. Instead these corporations threaten to leave when they are forced to pay their employees more.

 

[highland145]

Average $3.20/hr increase, for 40 hrs, would make the average store net $0. So I'm guessing it's not going to happen.


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Average_McDonalds_Franchise_net_profit
http://www.ask.com/question/how-many-employees-does-mcdonalds-have

 

[dabuddha]

Same question.

Because the work they do doesn't deserve that much money? Is this a trick question?

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

It's a tough call, because in some cases the state minimum wage is fine for employees in the majority of the state, but in a city like NYC it's no where near possible to survive on.

It's too bad they can't alter minimum wage a little more specifically based on geographic location and average income for the area. Instead these corporations threaten to leave when they are forced to pay their employees more.

minimum wage jobs aren't supposed to provide for a family.

 

[Puppies04]

if they want a higher paying job, get a job that 14 year olds can't do.

You're talking about porn aren't you...

 

[diesbudt]

So is this the first stone cast in "the end"?

 

[Broheim]

minimum wage jobs aren't supposed to provide for a family.

no that's what welfare is for

 

[MontyAC]

Guess McDonald will post job openings later than day.

 

[SunnyD]

On one hand they are correct: They are paid disproportionately too little when adjusted for inflation to what their counterparts had been paid even 10 years ago, let alone 20 years ago.

On the other hand, what they are asking for will only beget the cycle further: Higher wages will mean more income (and more costs for employers), thereby artificially enhancing the rate of inflation. The bottom rung of wage earner (eg: Them) will essentially see only temporary "relief" until the rest of the market catches up with them once again, and their actions only serve to ripple through the ENTIRE market from bottom to top.

Nobody wins.

 

[diesbudt]

On one hand they are correct: They are paid disproportionately too little when adjusted for inflation to what their counterparts had been paid even 10 years ago, let alone 20 years ago.

On the other hand, what they are asking for will only beget the cycle further: Higher wages will mean more income (and more costs for employers), thereby artificially enhancing the rate of inflation. The bottom rung of wage earner (eg: Them) will essentially see only temporary "relief" until the rest of the market catches up with them once again, and their actions only serve to ripple through the ENTIRE market from bottom to top.

Nobody wins.

This, and they will keep wanting more. Plus asking $15/hr for a min wage job is ridiculous.

 

[PingSpike]

They'll just be replaced with robots eventually and then instead of barely having any money to buy weed they'll have no money to buy weed. It would be great if you could raise a family and buy a house by pushing buttons with pictures of hamburgers on them all day but we just don't live in that world and since the labor is unskilled they simply do not have the leverage required to get a higher wage out of it.

 

[child of wonder]

Why reach for lofty goals when you can get someone else to raise the floor?

 

[SagaLore]

I don't understand how anybody can think working in fast food can be a career choice. It is a good way to get some income while in school, quickly develop customer skills, learn humility. It sure beats slaving over blueberry picking for cents per pound or moving lawns.

 

[silverpig]

On one hand they are correct: They are paid disproportionately too little when adjusted for inflation to what their counterparts had been paid even 10 years ago, let alone 20 years ago.

On the other hand, what they are asking for will only beget the cycle further: Higher wages will mean more income (and more costs for employers), thereby artificially enhancing the rate of inflation. The bottom rung of wage earner (eg: Them) will essentially see only temporary "relief" until the rest of the market catches up with them once again, and their actions only serve to ripple through the ENTIRE market from bottom to top.

Nobody wins.

The second part is false. If you increased EVERYONE's wages, then costs across the board would go up (but only by an amount proportional to labour costs as a percentage of total costs), and people would have to pay somewhat more, but not the same amount as the cost increase (remember, we didn't increase material costs, energy costs, etc).

In addition, we're talking about only bringing up the wages of the bottom earners, so the effect is muted.

tl;dr: Doubling a McD's worker's wage wouldn't double the price of a Big Mac.

 

[silverpig]

Because the work they do doesn't deserve that much money? Is this a trick question?

It deserves whatever they can get. If they all strike, unionize, and then pump up the minimum wage for working there to $15, then that's what they deserve.

If enough voters decide to get behind a $15 minimum wage, then that's what they deserve.

 

[kranky]

I am not familiar with how fast food places operate other than what I see when I go in. Is it possible they could operate with fewer people IF the ones they had could increase their productivity? From my observations, there usually seems to be at least one or two people on the clock who don't seem to be particularly busy. The way it is now there is no incentive to crank it up because double the productivity won't ever mean double the wage. But if that opportunity was available - being able to make $30K a year for someone who can really produce - for many people, that would be a job worth keeping.

Of course, that would mean one less job for someone else at mininum wage.

 

[silverpig]

Average $3.20/hr increase, for 40 hrs, would make the average store net $0. So I'm guessing it's not going to happen.


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Average_McDonalds_Franchise_net_profit
http://www.ask.com/question/how-many-employees-does-mcdonalds-have

They'd just raise prices.