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Thousands Gather At McDonald's Headquarters Demanding Higher Wages
On Wednesday, we got a look at a leaked WalMart training video in which a series of “associates” (read: hilariously bad actors) patiently explain to new hires why unions are bad.
The video is especially relevant in light of the retailer’s recent battle with intractable “clogs and leaks” at several locations and if “clogs and leaks” actually means “unions” then it makes a lot of sense why the company closed its Pico Rivera location because if ever there were a WalMart store that suffered from stubborn “plumbing problems” then Pico Rivera is surely it.
But WalMart isn’t the only giant multinational that just can’t seem to get the “plumbing” fixed because as you’ll see below, legions of McDonald’s workers descended on the company's Illinois headquarters ahead of the annual shareholders meeting in an effort to show the company that they are most assuredly not “Lovin’ It.”
Here’s The Chicago Tribune:
Potesters hailing from as far away as Kansas City and New York City participated in a demonstration at McDonald's Oak Brook headquarters Wednesday, urging that hourly wages for the burger giant's front-line workers be increased to $15 an hour.
Darrell Miller, 35, who said he left Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday night on a bus filled with other protesters, said he decided to join in because it was his dream to march like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and fight for freedom.
His job at McDonald's, he said, gives him no control over his life or his independence because the $7.75 an hour he is paid barely covers his bills.
Protesters, who had gathered about a half a mile west of the headquarters, slowly marched toward McDonald's campus shortly after noon. At the head of the long line of protesters several held aloft a banner: "McDonald's $15 and union rights, not food stamps. #fightfor15."
The Oak Brook police estimated the crowd at about 2,000 people. Organizers had projected that upward of 5,000 would participate in the demonstration.
Before demonstrations began, Heidi Barker, a McDonald's spokeswoman, said the company does not have the power to raise wages of workers employed by its franchisees. She said it's possible that franchisees will follow the company's lead and also raise wages of front-line workers.
McDonald's will increase starting wages to $1 above the local minimum at 1,500 company-owned restaurants effective July 1. While that increase affects more than 90,000 employees, those restaurants account for about one-tenth of McDonald's restaurants across the country. Franchisees, which operate the majority of U.S. restaurants, make their own decisions on pay and benefits. Overall, about 750,000 employees work at company- and franchisee-owned McDonald's restaurants in the U.S.
Given that McDonald's can play the "it's up to the franchise owners" card when it comes to wages, one approach to dealing with rising wages if you're the company is simply to decrease the number of company-owned locations, which is why we aren't surprised to learn that the company is refranchising thousands of stores:
- MCDONALD'S WILL REFRANCHISE 3,500 STORES GLOBALLY BY 2018
- MCDONALD'S SAYS MOVING TO 90% FROM 81% FRANCHISED GLOBALLY
And while the company's employees may not be getting rich, its shareholders sure are, and it's all courtesy of central banks. McDonald's completed its largest reverse Yankee bond sale in history this week, raising $2 billion, money which, as you can see below, will be promptly used to buy back stock, enriching shareholders and management even as workers strike for higher wages. In other words: not only is the QE 'wealth effect' not working, the exact opposite is happening. Central bank policy is serving, once again, to exacerbate the wealth divide:
- MCDONALD'S SEES RETURNING $8B-$9B TO SHAREHOLDERS THIS YR
Of course Illinois’ fiscal nightmare isn’t helping matters for workers in the state, as budget cuts aimed at closing a $6 billion funding gap are driving up prices for services:
Adriana Alvarez said that since joining the Fight for $15 campaign last year, her hourly wages at a McDonald's on Cicero Avenue jumped by $1.75 an hour, reaching $10.50 an hour. But the single mother of a 3-year-old boy said her costs also continue to go up and state budget cuts affected a child care subsidy she receives.
And according to union officials, the battle for higher burger flipping wages is just getting started:
Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, called on McDonald's to sit with a union at a national bargaining table and put some of its profits into the pockets of workers.
"Even when we get $15 and a union we will keep fighting," Henry said.
We suspect it might be just a matter of time before McDonald's and some McDonald's franchisees decide that now might be a good time to fix the plumbing at certain locations.
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A reminder to McDonald's: WalMart suggests you discourage this kind of thing early on by showing this to new hires...
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I wondered why those Whopper tasted like head cheese
Keep your bathhouse activity out of this!
He makes them go work on his oil trains of death. They can be incinerated in some podunk town.
All of which will be voting for 1 of 2 cronies in the next election, taking them furhter down the road where in due time $15 and hour will feel like $7.75.
McD's and Walmart are a POX on humanity. Fucking Commies.
Please 'Super-Size' my paycheck!
Scenario #1 - You're the lucky person who earns $15/hour to drop a vat of fries: The other workers at your restaurant lose their jobs.
Scenario #2 - Someone else at your restaurant earns $15/hour to drop a vat of fries: YOU lose your job.
Scenario #3 - Owner says fuck it and buys a machine to drop vat of fries: EVERYONE loses their job.
Pure observation, not a COP in sight lol.... made for the TV viewing audience...
So fuck'en sick and tired of hearing about the poor repressed black man, slavery was well over 200 fuck'en years ago! most of us were not even alive!...tell me so I can get a grip, what " RIGHTS " do you feel you're entitled to? same with the whole Gay marriage issue, what " Rights " do you want? get married for all I care, fact is I don't! ... this bullshit has gone on my entire life and still all we do is circle the wagon like chess pieces!, YOU'RE BEING USED AS A DISTRACTION PEOPLE!. You get no more rights! than the rest of us or what TPTB allow you to have so keep fighting for the cause, its gone no where in 200 years!....your being used!
I wonder where half that crowd will be finding their next job?
why should they not bitch about their wages?
do any of their "executives" work the front line and have to tolerate the fucking abusive language and nonsense from their "customers"? The average American who barely acknowledges them, talks on the cellphone, thrusts their palms in their face demanding their change?
I work the front line at a second job as a direct result of this depression. In my former high paying job I probably wouldve have operated in the same manner to the front line.
I now have an incredible appreciation of what these workers go thru in dealing with the most self centered, self important, egregious assholes. The ME SO IMPORTANT segment of our society.
Why should the executives make 100x what they make? They don't make the company any money. They are bureaucrats.
Many of those 'executives' started on the 'front line!' For many it was a great job at the time! Those who remained at the minimum level had a variety of other issues!
Let me help you understand something, if you work in the nut house, you deal with the nutty residence...You get my drift?
I cheer you in your second job, your doing it congratulations, but cheaply made garbage masked as food, attracts cheaply no class individuals.
I hope this helps.
The product or service is not the issue. The price sure is! Who defends the customer who demands the lowest price possible? MCD workers also shop in WAL and will have to be forced to pay higher price now too. They will be very lucky to break even! The vulnerable & unskilled gets screwed on this big time! The union bosses & organizers rejoice!
Everyone should spend a year or two in retail experiencing the joy/sarc/of the American consumer. It is my idea of hell.
I'm not arguing about their food quality. What I am saying is that unless you experience what they endure you cannot possibly understand what they endure. They deserve $15 but I doubt if McD can afford it unless salaries are reduced overall and that is not the American way.
Nonetheless, all executives should be required to be on the front lines for at least two to three months a year in order to have an appreciation for those workers who support their high salaries.
The average CEO in America doesn't spend more than 3 years on the job. The turnover & demands are unreal. CEO's should not be under more scrutiny than the fabulously paid athletes, musicians & Hollywood actors who earnserveral times more than most CEO's without the worry of employees or business risks.
I think this is great, but I won't eat or buy their crap at the current price,
so how would I ever eat it at higher wage inflated prices?
And can you imagine what you are eating if they win and menu prices stay the same?
I wouldn't eat it at ANY price. They have to pay me to eat that dog shit.
The large amounts of high fructose corn syrup and the lack of dietary fiber in most of McDonald's offerings makes their products poor choices if you care about your long term health. I think if you ate there rarely it wouldn't shorten your lifetime too much.
Looks like the unions want to destroy what is left of the economy! They did an excellent job on manufacturing! Retail & Food Service should be a snap! Long live the 'Brotherhood!'
You know why unions were formed don't you? Because ALL employers would gouge their workers and make them work 80 hours a week and get 50 cents an hour.,
I suggeset Americans study their history. The 50's were some of the best days of the USA .
Wrong! But nice try!
STudy your history , you fucking RETARD!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't make a fool of yourself as usual and get the facts straight! For once! Just for a change too!
So then he was correct? by your response I guess he was. A confident person would have offered the knowledge not the insult.
The union movement and minimum wage history dates back to the late 1800's and early 1900's to defend the northern construction workers against the southern black construction workers (who were prolific and built much of america) & who were willing to work for less wages. The 'minimum wage' was a wage that actually made the northern workers competitive & effectively shut out the black southern workers. The rest is just collasal bull shit & organized crime extortion!
I knew the answer, but I figured he would at least have the respect to offer his version instead of the insult.
Ya well this isn't the Main Stream 50's we could only wish it were. Unions had their time and that time has long passed. But hey they make great Political contributions so says Hillery..
Unions are flesh eating paracites & a huge self serving voting block. Nothing more!
Share holders are flesh eating paracites & a huge self serving voting block. Nothing more!
Fixed it for you, Nazi asswipe!!
Your pension fund (if u have one) is full of corporations (and probably MCD) with shareholders just like you. Fix yourself!
Fook me!
WHO WILL MAKE THE 1/4 Pounders!! *
* weight before cooking
Domestic terrorists!
At $15 and hour, they will go under.
McDonalds goes under and the world rejoices. Why do you retards eat there?
Because the fries used to taste great until they bowed to Islam and changed the cooking oil.
And that's the truth.
Standard Disclaimer: Don't eat there any more.
Bowed to Islam??
Put down the crack pipe, dumbo,.
Reference.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93386
Don't confuse the DM with facts!
Don't get me started or I'll go have the US military poke a few holes in your dikes...
Never get in the way of the wizard when he is on a good rant. Especially when it comes to our freedom fries...
Now foad...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/22/mcdonald-settles-700000-suit-over-i...
I'd completely forgotten about those Hindu fucks. Miserable fucking bastards, if you don't like the fries, don't eat them and take your sorry asses back to your country of origin. I noticed the change in the taste of the fries almost immediately. First time I thought to myself, why do you have to go and fuck with the one thing that brought people into McDonald's in the firrst place. It certainly wasn't to gawk at the red headed clown.
California Representative Maxine Waters to demand that McDonalds raises wages or face, sociali..nationalization.
In other news, McDonalds announces the closing of dozens of stores due to....plumbing issues.
Robots. And it's been shown that customers can enter their own orders into the touch screen better than the mirror fogger behind the counter because they actually care about getting the right food and being billed correctly. Soon there will be 2 McDonald's employees per shift, a manager and a person to load the machine hoppers. The rest will be automated/mechanized and the transition will be blamed on employee demands.
"SAY HELLO TO YOUR REPLACEMENT"
http://www.inquisitr.com/1594675/mcdonalds-counters-minimum-wage-hike-15...
"SAY HELLO TO YOUR REPLACEMENT"
http://www.inquisitr.com/1594675/mcdonalds-counters-minimum-wage-hike-15...
Hussein Obama's Community "Organizers" and rabble rousers in action.
SEIU Astroturf. If these mental midgets want to know why wages are depressed look no further than the presidents immigration policy.
Since March 10th around 11:00am Bear Stearns New York City time the Casino Capitalist 'BIG Box' Ponzi scheme has been rendered defunct. McDonalds Corp. is one of the stoooooooopidist dumb ass motherfuckers this World has _EVER_ witnessed in the entire fucking World of dumb ass motherfuckers that the God damned gene pool has ever motherfucking invented in the fucking history of civilization.
NOTE: McDonalds Corporation is B-lining towards Chapter 11 Bankruptcy just like all the other dumb ass motherfuckers in the BIG Box Ponzi fucking industry have been for seven [count em'] fucking years now, Z/H.
Oberhelman & CAT are in mighty decent company whilst they enjoy their time on the path to Hell on a Ponzi built handcart. And never forget that the price of earth moving equipment and hamburgers always goes up just like stocks, housing prices, and the price per barrel of oil. Oh yeah, and French fries too!
NOTE: That Ponzi dude was a genius.
This is for Itchy and Scratchy and other ignorant mofos.
In Germany and the Netherlands, McDonalds workers make 15 dollars an hour (12 euro minimum wage,) PLUS every one here gets 5 weeks vacation from Day one.
Result? Still big profits for McDonalds, Netherlands.
The minimum wage and 5 week vacation has nothing to do with UNIONS. Its a National Law.
38 hour work week is standard also, and time and half over 8 hours a day, double time on Sundays and triple time on Holidays.
And THAT is why even a McDonalds worker here has money to go on vacation to the Med and worldwide. They even can afford to go visit the USA>
How many McD's workers in the USA can afford to visit Europe??
OH, and the food is not very much more expensive than what you pay in the USA .
Europe is a disfunctional socialist shithole that has spent more time trying to kill eachother than anything else! Too bad they weren't allowed too!
Keep showing your fucking ignorance you moron.
'''Coming from Northern Europe back to the USA is like leaving the Jetsons and returning to the Flinstones''- New York Times reporter .
Dysfunctional is YOU clowns in a very BIG way. Most of you can't even count to 21 without taking off your shoes and trousers.
Tell, you what Itchy, as soon as you recover from the dose of the crabs. Take a couple of weeks off and come here and have your myths dispelled.
Oh, wait, you say you can't get 2 weeeks off? WHY????????
I just wanted to stop in and thank you for littering the comments here with your profound and insightful thoughts. Truly, your several dozen comments featuring disjointed ramblings and incoherent insults have added value to this specific article, and to ZH as a whole.
Again, thank you, and keep up the good fight.
Now the poo throwing monkeys like Douche Boy want $15 min wage.
Obviously you have not looked at McDonald's financial books lately and make up false claims about big profits for McDonald's to support your argument. You would see the company is losing money and isn't doing great either globally.
Its not because of wages. its because of the CRAP food they sell. People here are waking up and driving by. We enjoy fresh food and still have time to actually COOK.
Americans are so fucking lazy and fat they can't or won't even Cook . Perhaps its because they are working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet.
Its pathetic for a so called ''modern country''
The so called "modern country" is the reason you aren't commenting on Zerohedge in German or Russian. Ja, oder Nein? Da nun Nyet?
When a company is struggling, weak or failing thats when the paracite unions move in to finish them off! They can't defeat the strong ones!
Confirmed idiot...
By the way, Ive been to Europe, its a shithole of its former self. Destroyed all in the name of Democracy. You sir drank way to much Fluoride.
Lets not forget about exploding rates of suicide, alcoholism, prostitution, drug use, depression etc etc! All socialist success stories!
You are so full of shit. Total retard. everything you say is actually what America IS.
Take a tour of southern Europe! Sweden just as bad!
Looks like DB2015 is off his meds again.
Too many recreational enemas have unhinged his already alarmingly low IQ mind.
And when America goes toes-up from the weight of all the socalism, Europe will collapse, because we prop you socialist gasbags up. How much do European countries spend keeping their own shipping lanes free of pirates, for example? The American taxpayer subsidizes the European Free Shit Armies as well as America's own Free Shit Army, because we bear the cost of all the American defense spending. I hate like hell the fact that total economic collapse is inevitable, but I'm sure gonna laugh at all the god-damned Marxist morons who can't figure out where their Free Shit disappeared to.
Now here is the real truth, The USA forces their protection racket on Europe. We don't need nor want you here.
You sons of bitches create the bogeymen and then say we need ''protection''.
You are a fucking idiot and 90 percent of Europeans agree.
My 72 year old wife laughs, Americans are STUPID people. She has been saying it for 30 years.
My 72 year old wife laughs
What's his name?
72 yr old wife and you obviously work at Mc Donalds-
Well, now we know the source of your anger-
@ Dutch - You are right. Most Americans ARE stupid people. They voted for everything that happens to them. But you have a problem, too. You need to go find your balls, strap them on and throw out the Americans that have been telling you how to wipe your ass for 40 years. I will cheer if you do.
Now here is the real truth, The USA forces their protection racket on Europe.
Agreed.
We don't need nor want you here.
You might not want us there, but you damn sure need the billions of dollars we pump into your economies with our "protection racket." Your socialism collapses without other people's money.
You are a fucking idiot and 90 percent of Europeans agree.
I'm flattered that 90% of Europeans know who I am.
My 72 year old wife laughs, Americans are STUPID people.
Many, maybe even most, but not all of us. The stupid comes from embracing Marxist philosophy. you know - like you jokers do over in Europe.
She has been saying it for 30 years.
So have I, and I'm nowhere close to being that old. I guess she's a bit slow on the uptake, huh?
They may pay their employees more, but they also have fewer employees in their McDonalds.
"McDonald's is already deploying mobile ordering in other countries. In France, you can order a McDonald's hamburger from a mobile device, tablet or desktop and pick it up later at a restaurant, said Thomas Husson, a Forrester analyst in a report."
Something has got to give, especially when you have declining revenue and profits. Look at stock symbol MCD.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2837810/automation-arrives-at-resta...
You know what they put on French fries in Holland instead of ketchup? Mayonnaise. I've seen 'em do it, man. They fuckin' drown 'em in that shit.
Anyone care to guess what will happen to the hourly wage rate of fast food workers when thousands and thousands of fired McDonalds workers hit the labor market?
They discover that real minimum wage is $0.00?
The MW stat is such bullshit from the get-go and the average person is dopey enough to believe it! Over 80% of the MCD workers are not at minimum wage. The longer you successfully work with them the higher the hourly rate you get - albeit small increases Most are young enthusiastic students (NOT SHOWN IN PICTURE) who are very happy to get a pay check to cover costs & spend! For many its their 1st job ever! The average worker works at MCD for less than a year. Most use the job to build basic skills and experience for their resume. Many many great & successful people have flipped burgs there! MCD has been a great innovative & important company to the economy!
I can't afford to eat at McDonald's as it is. With higher costs I'll be forced to eat there even less..
did Baltimogadishu puke on the street
or is Obama bussing in protesters again ?
why the fuck are you trying to support at family by working at mickey ds!
isn't that what trades (like construction), degrees, SKILLS come in at?
You need at least a room temperture IQ for those type jobs. Hard to find in the USA>
Technological note to McDonalds...(or how to beat SEIU at it's own game)
Take as many photos as you can of the protestors. Load images onto website. Use google chrome to do some image matching.
Publish expose on every person in the crowd that does not work for McDonald's (but is affiliated with SEIU)...
If the person does work for McDonald's, shitcan them.
Standard Disclaimer: They pay some jackhole who speaks Ebonics $15/hr... I want my salary doubled... because I have real world skills that keeps me employed past the age of 50.
"SAY HELLO TO YOUR REPLACEMENT"
http://www.inquisitr.com/1594675/mcdonalds-counters-minimum-wage-hike-15...
An OK lunch costs $10.99 plus tax of 13% and a tip of 20%. Who can afford an 8 dollar Big Mac?
Definately not the workers even @ $15/hr!
Pay them all $60K a year. I say we raise minimum wage to $75 an hour or so.
/s
That's right! I don't mind a Big Mac costing $18.00. (As long as somebody else pays...)
Where I live nurses make $13 to $16 an hour. Fuck these people that think flipping burgers is worth that.
Where I live nurses make $13 to $16 an hour. Fuck these people that think flipping burgers is worth that.
Now that's criminal!
$15/hour means something much different in small town in the heartland than it does in NY or SF.
I'm guessing that concept may be lost on most of the protesters.
V good point! It is a complex issue.
Time to long on automated systems manufacturers/installers.
What pisses me off even more (which makes me want to take a flamethrower to every mother fucking one of these protestors) is not their demand for $15.00/hr, but the fact that this is their highest aspiration in life... to be a fast food worker...
Lots and lots of people start at such a level and for most it is an excellent beginning! The don't stay at minimum levels for long while building much needed skills, experience and abilitites. The average MCD worker works at MCD for less than one year! Their employee turnover is unreal! They are a fabulous employer!
Hey, whoa! Don't be so harsh! They just spend 50K to get a degree to qualify them for this!
Very gud 1! Quote of the thread by a mile!
You must make too much if you can take off to go and have transportation or is it funded by another sinister group.
Starts with "U' and ends with "n"?
Expect that MCD will eventually be a QE 10/Tarp government bail-out candidate just like other union led nightmares like GM & the like! The taxpayers will be funding irrational wages while a once fabulous innovative cororpation who revolutionized the global food service industry is driven into obscurity!
Let's just make them all government employees and get this over with.
Zerohedge must be making some waves to attract a troll the likes of DutchBoy2015
Kudos
Americans are lemmings. -thats what I hear a lot around here.
The idiotic comments calling us ''socialists'' because we have 15 euro an hour miniumwage and 5 week vacations.
Here are some more FACTS.
We have 6 percent REAL unemployment in REAL numbers. while you have about 20 percent in REAL numbers.
I don't know of anyone losing their home or living off Credit cards because we have high wages. Pay Day loans are ILLEGAL here. But I guess you would say ''We love freedom to fleece people''.
Next MYTH you like to spew is ''we are being overrun by Muslims''. More bullshit.
You know why you folks are so ignorant? Because you allow your brains to be pickled by FOXCNNABCCBSNBC The biggest liars and propagandists on the planet.
WE have more small businesses per capita than the USA.
WE have about 10 internet providers in our small country of 17 million and most of country is now Fiber Optic. Average cost? 20 euros a month UNLIMITED.
Cell phone providers., about 6 vying for customers meaning LOW PRICES. 10 euros a month for 4G .
OH and one more myth you believe. is that we have free health care. WRONG!! WE have all private single payer, for 100 euros a month unlimited. Better health care and faciilties than in USA also. We ranked number one in the world as per Wikipedia.
So instead of ranting about ''libs'' and ''commies' and ''socialists';' I suggest you get educate and stop making fools out of yourselves.
There really aren't enough vile expletives in the universe to describe some of you gullible knuckledragging yahoos.
say what you want about the good old USA- you're the gasbag banging a 72 yr old dusty snatch
It's probably not even breathing.
It's why he ran from the US.
In Holland, you can fuck whatever you want.
The marxist EU masterminds will crush any positive COMPETITIVE advancements or developments. It's in their DNA.
Fuck it, make the wages $30/hr. That's the problem with these keynesian wet dreams... just keep borrowing from the future, you can always borrow and print moar! Keep extending the natl. debt... why stop at $18T or whatever... just fucking change the law and say there is no ceiling... start paying all fast food workers $50/hr... who the fuck cares?
The only way these fucktards will learn from their actions is when the whole fucking system crashes. Some (ClowardPiven) really want it to crash in order to usher in global slavery but that's not gonna happen... I say let it crash, then those of us responsible patriots can "mop" up all this filth and start over.
Fraid so!
But, but... I don't want to flip burgers! Holy Jeez!
as employees, you make more of a statement by quitting or just refusing the job offer, not by protesting! As long as there is someone who will take the job at whatever price... that is the market rate....
I don't understand what they really plan to accomplish by protesting? Anytime I ever felt I wasn't paid enough, I just quit and moved on to some other place who would pay me what I thought I should be getting.
They have every right to ask for more wages.
And I have every right to refuse to pay an extra 20% for a meal there, and to go somewhere else.
and to not give them any money when they are on the street begging post lay off [pardon, they'll be in section 8 housing with wic, and food stamps and obamacare, so they'll be ok]
They ain't asking. They are demanding. Gov't is legislating! Investors & shareholders are running!
in that spirit, I demand my money back
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/30/11-things-you-didnt-know-you-could-buy...
Print it!
"Those people need to find a job and pull themselves up by there bootstraps."
The franchise owners should cut all their hours to one hour per week and close their stores in the legally required amount of time.
Only 20% of MCD is franchised. The 20% all want out & prefer to lock their doors!
Dude... I think you got that backwards... 80% are franchisee owned, 20% corporate owned.
http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/franchising.html
Interesting. A MCD official was on biz news totay saying they were going to buy back about 6,500 stores bringing up their corporate ownership to over 90%. I was surprized it was so high! I'll check it out. Either way a huge number of franchisees (middle class people) are very dissatisified & cannot make $$$. The higher wage will be the last nail in the coffin for many!
I remember doing some work for MCD corporate probably about 10 years ago... they had a test site in a warehouse out in the subburbs where they were testing a plan to eliminate most of the staff through automation, where they would have touchscreen kiosks you would order from, and had automated a lot of the kitchen activities like cooking the fries, burgers and a few other things to where a store could be run with only a handfull of people.
anymore... I wonder how long till they actually implement that..
Yeah its all about delivering a product at the lowest possible rate. All sectors face the challenge. A company like MCD generates business for 100's of thousands of supply companies & related businesses. MCD is a critical customer to many! MCD is an insanely important part of the economy & business environment. They play by the rules & regulations. They create great value and wealth for many!
Instead of encouraging people like this to demonstrate for money they don't deserve, maybe society should point out that a 35 year old grown f'ing man should aspire to more than working at McDonalds and if that's all he wants in life then maybe he deserves to only make 7.75/hr
This will just hasten the McDonalds of the future, so lets get on with it. You will walk into MickeyD's, order off a kiosk, pay via kiosk, the robot burger flipper will cook and prepare your burger, and one of the three workers still working (but making $15 an hour) will hand you a tray with your order number on it. There will be another $15 an hour employee restocking supplies for the burger flipping robot, and one $50 an hour employee surfing porn sites while waiting for one of the robots to need fixing.
What is mcdnolds?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_GPs3uKhBnc/Urh3U4bf9KI/AAAAAAAACVQ/ElxeFscnKA...
They should have went to work at McDowell's. I hear if you keep your nose to the grindstone, you can make assistant manager in 5 or 6 years.
Jeez....it's should have 'gone'.
Can someone send in the Elysium robo-police to beat some sense into these guys?
Give them exactly what they want. Then fire every one of them and replace them with robots. At least with robots you won't see pictures of employees standing on your food or spitting in your food or pissing on your food or putting mice and insects in your food.
The crisis would end tomorrow if: (just few random points)
1 triple minimum wage and triple all other wages proportionally, abolish tax on small business.
2. Eliminate income tax on wages, and temporarily eliminate sale taxes, increase tax on capital gains to 35%.
3.Triple barriers and tariffs on imports and exports including variable tax on oil depending o markets.
4. at least 10% Financial transactions tax and capital outflow controls. Close earned income loophole retroactively and demand payment arrears.
5. One time 5% tax of total wealth located abroad and in US of US companies and individuals worth more than 15 millions to pay national debt.
6 . Nationalize banks,. abolish FED, seize assets, arrest bankers ,buy and retire underwater real estate and under appreciated assets, student loans. Break up companies of 2 billions or more in revenue foreign or domestic. Outlaw lobbying by lobbyists except for constituents at local office only. ban money from politics, create public election TV for all ads campaigns. Denounce WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA etc., return to bi-national agreements.
7. outlaw monopoly position of health insurance , increase their tax, create national health, life disability insurance ( medicare like, reduce drug costs 99%) and all national car insurance to compete.
8. release all non-violent offenders except for banksters since the caused violent damage to society. Close private prisons. Dismantle companies that run them. Reduce sentences 50% and guaranties good paid jobs for all inmates while in prison and during probation. Close all bases in the world cut paid military spending 90%. Reduce police pay to national average. Shut down spy agencies, arrest those responsible for violating constitution including much of congress and executives.
9. Round up all illegal immigrants. Train them professionally and politically , give them money and political support to come back to their countries to make changes so they will not have to emigrate.
10. and much more.
Six weeks and you gonna have 5 jobs for one candidate and mainstream economy moving fast. The parasites will loose jobs.
Let these globalists run away we the people, have enough expertise to do it ourselves would pick up their assets on cheap since they belong to us anyway.
That would be a regime change we can believe in. But that would mean war.
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/regime-change-we-can-...
I stopped after reading 'abolish tax!' Thats they very last thing our great visionaries will do! Think massive increase imminent!
I find it a bit funny that almost every single person you can see in those photos is black or latino. So do white people not work at McDonald's or do the white workers simply realize that it's futile to protest for something like that and that they realize they are easily replaceable?
I'd be fine with them getting that raise if I knew McDonald's would *gasp* actually take less profit and that it wasn't just going to be passed onto consumers.
Most employees are young students. They are happy to get a pay check to cover their costs while learning basic skills & aquiring much needed experience. Not one of them is shown in picture! Pathetic & bogus strike march for sure! Most union agitators who don't care about the students!
Holy Shit.
25 posts and no Douche Boy comment.
Haha. I hope he had a stroke and is drooling with rage on his keyboard.
Bu-bye Douchie.
There's an old saying about the douche..."Wooden shoes, wooden head wouldn't listen."
bots are cheaper and they don't complain and steal
THe average age of a minimum wage worker is 36 . according to some article ZH posted.. that means teens are not the primary source of labor.. from my experience.. in our local McD. . most of them are women in their 30s or 20s .. many with children .. there are NO JOBS .. the jobs that used to be there have been filled by Mexicans . .ala meat packing .. here in Georgia where the wages were among the highest for low paid skill sets.. that is until the cheap labor spiggot opened .. wage packages back in the 80s were in the 20 bucks an hour range.. the turnover was low . .. conditions were clean . now there is 100 percenbt turnover... same is true for whatever factory jobs are left. .. illegals get 90 percent of them .. most jobs since 2000 in the service sector have been filled by immigrants legal and illegal on both ends of the scale .. machine tool guys made 20 bucks an hour in the 90s . its about the same now . in Germany the average wage is about 27 dollars an hour .. and they did not divest themselves of their best manufacturing to ship to China .. in fact the US worker is NOT competing against he GERMANS or the SWEDES or the SWISS they are competing against third world country SLAVE LABOR in CHina, Mexico . fill in the blank .. the outlook for the minimum wage worker . . is . work for free . or slave wages . and that is it .. granted robots will take over . but where does it leave thsee people . it leaves them on the govt. dole TOTALLY as the are squeezed out of low skill jobs by a never ending supply of cheap foreign labor . welcome to the USSA. PS .. in Georgia that cheap labor comes at a price.. the cheap and cheaper labor that has taken over in carpet manufacturing . .meat p[acking . road crews . .building .. etc .. their children cost the state 928 million a year to educate . and over a billion to medicate .. and incaceration is in the hundreds of millions . .. there is NO FREE lunch . the plutocrats who promote slave labor ala open border migration make out and dump the social costs on the taxpayer .. illegals send a LOT of the money they make back to Mexico so its not spent HERE ..
@Icelandicsaga.....
Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and NON-Whites are now the MAJORITY of children in Mississippi!!
By plan, not chance.
This short article gives one an understanding of why the US immigration policy is so INSANE.
If you're a tribal oligarch it actually makes perfect sense. Cheap labor and the White population - your traditional antagonist - marginalized and disempowered.
Just think...in 5 years all these jobs will be automated by the BurgerMatic5000 and all of the actual workers will be out of a job. The Dems will rejoice as that means more on the dole! Everyone wins!
Support the DNC - Abort a viable Black baby
I can't wait for the BurgerMatic5000! No more disgusting losers doing God-knows-what to the food behind that damned grill.
By far most MCD employees are students or young unemployed types like most fast food businesses. MCD hires lots of older senior/retired types for day shift work. The average age is meaningless. There has indeed been severe wage compression over the past 3 decades. Union extortion was the main reason for job loss early in the globalization process. Those jobs never came back and the unions didnt care. They just moved onto fresh targets & public service. Also the spending demands by government contributed to the mix with higher taxes, rules & regulation. And now they want to tax carbon! Asia has been a wonderful market for many North American exports. Incessant money printing has created stealth inflation that has not benefitted wage growth since manufacturing has been hollowed out thanks to ALL the previous administrations. Skilled job protection is the key in some form but barring embargos or trade tariffs. Low skilled service jobs will continue to be pressured especially if wages are forced higher!
White teens used to do the jobs at McDonald's but now, at least in the 3 I visited in 3 different states the last year all of the workers were, apparently, Mexican, although they could have been Central Americans.
The dollar is not worth what it was in 1950 or 1960.
Criminal government and business regimes have TRASHED the White middle class in every way. And it was by design, not by accident.
It is a terrible thing that they have done to this country.
Eye on Hollywood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhYbiHUTD7Q
Hispanics are the main driver of population growth in thr U.S. Without them the country would be experience dangerous negative growth. It is great that they have the work ethic which really drives America! Even nicer that employers are not driven by race but by producing a product at the lowest price possible thereby enriching everyone! Self-interested Government is definately the elelphant in the room. They sure have have stifled economic growth at almost every turn! Hopefully at some point the fearless leaders will get the hell out of the way so the spirit of innovation, growth, & REAL wealth building can flourish! At some point they need to stop extorting tax-payers & stealing from future generations asap. There is a point of no return!
Why? Have burger-flippers become more productive? Are there no more workers available and so it's a labor supply issue? Or do they just want more because they just want more?
Why do idiots think that all their work must provide a "living wage"? Who the hell told you that? Some jobs are good jobs and some are bad. You have a bad job. Go get a better one.
Excellent questions. Stop making sense lest we shall lose our socially romantic notions of fairness & equality & harmony & kumbya!
More paid protesters not from that city. Nice!
Sounds like a pretty good business model to me! Getting paid to burn off unwanted calories!
I see losers....and not many white faces.
I'm actually looking forward to the automated burger machines. I never trust those bastards who work fast food. They enjoy putting body fluids in your food.
Hamburgler stole their wages!
"Robble Robble"
This makes me grimace.
http://i.imgur.com/5Ovpcin.png
Give them each one share of McDonalds stock and tell them to suck it up and go home.