Paramedic’s Response to “Burger Flippers” Making an Equal $15/Hour is Beautiful
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Jens Rushing, like so many people, took to Facebook to rant about something. Rushing, a paramedic, wrote an angry post about fast food workers winning a $15/hr wage that has since gone viral. But...
Faces of the #Fast_Food_Movement
Fast food workers from all over the country descended on Chicago over the weekend to fight for dignity and a “living wage.” Meet some of them.
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How McDonald’s and Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens - Bloomberg
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-13/how-mcdonald-s-and-wal-mart-became-welfare-queens.html
According to one study, American fast food workers receive more than $7 billion dollars in public assistance. As it turns out, McDonald’s has a “McResource” line that helps employees and their families enroll in various state and local assistance programs. It exploded into the public when a recording of the McResource line advocated that full-time employees sign up for food stamps and welfare.
Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private sector employer, is also the biggest consumer of taxpayer supported aid. According to Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, in many states, Wal-Mart employees are the largest group of Medicaid recipients. They are also the single biggest group of food stamp recipients. Wal-mart’s “associates” are paid so little, according to Grayson, that they receive $1,000 on average in public assistance. These amount to massive taxpayer subsidies for private companies.
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Wal-Mart asks workers to donate food to its own needy employees:
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-asks-customers-to-donate-food-2013-11
You just can’t make this stuff up !
McDonalds tells workers to “sing away stress,” “chew away cares,” and go to church - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2013/11/19/revealed_mcdonalds_tells_workers_to_sing_away_stress_chew_away_cares_and_go_t
While McDonalds offers tips for individual self-improvement, and has responded to past criticism by touting its opportunities for individual self-advancement, the past year has seen an unprecedented wave of collective action against the fast food industry. As I’ve reported, a wave of one-day strikes which began a year ago in New York City spread to include sixty cities in an August walkout, all demanding $15 an hour and the chance to form a union without intimidation. The Service Employees International Union has been the main national player behind the campaign’s funding and strategy. The campaign has previously slammed McDonalds for the sample budget it offers online for low-wage workers, and for a McResource phone line whose advice includes seeking food stamps.
The McResource site suggests workers focus on the positive: “Stress hormone levels rise by 15% after ten minutes of complaining.”
Fast- food workers protests: Union images of the labor force don’t match reality. - Slate Magazine
▻http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/09/fast_food_workers_protests_union_images_of_the_labor_force_don_t_match_realit
“If you work for a living, you’re labor, too!” So read the text of a full-page newspaper advertisement sponsored by the American Federation of Labor in the spring of 1947. As the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act was wending its way through Congress, the AFL tried to convince the general public that it represented everyone, not just unionized workers.
This was a tough sell—and it still is. The chosen face of organized labor has long been the noble manufacturing worker, often one who produced machinery for American war efforts. This worker was white and male, he was his family’s sole breadwinner, and he probably wore overalls and muscles. Long after the AFL’s 1947 appeal, he remained the quintessential American laborer of the postwar period.