Well, if they're looking for a 'career change,' this just might do it . . .
Fast-food workers plan acts of civil disobedience
By Candice Choi September 1 at 7:09 PM
NEW YORK — McDonald’s, Wendy’s and other fast-food restaurants are expected to be targeted with acts of civil disobedience that could lead to arrests Thursday as labor organizers escalate their campaign to unionize the industry’s workers.
Kendall Fells, an organizing director for Fast Food Forward, said in an interview that workers in a couple of dozen cities were trained to peacefully engage in civil disobedience ahead of this week’s planned protests.
Fells declined to say what exactly is in store for the protests in around 150 U.S. cities. But workers involved in the movement recently cited sit-ins as an example of strategies they could use to intensify their push for higher pay and unionization. Past protests have targeted a couple of restaurants in each city.
The “Fight for $15†campaign is being backed by the Service Employees International Union and has gained national attention at a time when growing income disparities have become a hot political issue.
President Obama and others have said raising wages for those at the bottom of the economic ladder could help strengthen the middle class.
Not to mention drive up the price of fast food--which a lot of low-income people depend on to make their wages go further.
Here's the article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fast-food-workers-plan-acts-of-peaceful-civil-disobedience/2014/09/01/acf4f38e-3228-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html?tid=pm_business_pop
Yippie, this isn't the 1920-1930's. There is little a Union can do today to help the workers then the Fed. and State laws do for free .
Say you take out a loan to buy a hotdog cart, just the start, licensing fees, zoning laws, others wanting your business siccking the town health police on you, this can become ugly.
Now if you hire high school kids on summer break to work in the business at minimum wage for 6 hours a day this takes a huge chunk out of profits. But one goes on, makes a few bucks and the kids get their summer booze and drugs money with some money put by for school clothes in the fall.
If the Unions get their way these very small businesses will have to go to family owned where the unions cannot insist on anything including wages or benefits.
People today have the right to live and work where ever they wish and when getting a job know what their work is worth. We can accept the wages and rules of the Company or go else where, The old Company store from history is long gone, no longer are workers kept as slaves to a Company for what they have borrowed from them.
Unions are not worth the weekly dues to join in most cases unless one joins a Teamster Union at 18 and even leaving the job keeps up paying dues until they are 60 years old and can retire with benefits.
Interesting history of how the unions came to be, the good they did for the workers in the past but the incompetence of todays Unions--the Teachers Unions for example that insure our kids are taught by felons total wacked out raciest, child abusers and school boards that refuse to allow blind students to have a seeing eye dog.
Phooey on unions that want to make money from the people that want a part time job. Down the road the workers will find their hours cut short and the same union dues will remain the same. What do the workers get from the union-----BUNKISS, zero, nada.
