Fast Food Workers: You Don’t Deserve $15 an Hour to Flip Burgers, and That’s OK


Dear fast food workers,

It’s come to my attention that many of you, supposedly in 230 cities across the country, are walking out of your jobs today and protesting for $15 an hour. You earnestly believe — indeed, you’ve been led to this conclusion by pandering politicians and liberal pundits who possess neither the slightest grasp of the basic rules of economics nor even the faintest hint of integrity — that your entry-level gig pushing buttons on a cash register at Taco Bell ought to earn you double the current federal minimum wage.



I’m aware, of course, that not all of you feel this way. Many of you might consider your position as Whopper Assembler to be rather a temporary situation, not a career path, and you plan on moving on and up not by holding a poster board with “Give me more money!” scrawled across it, but by working hard and being reliable. To be clear, I am not addressing the folks in this latter camp. They are doing what needs to be done, and I respect that.

Instead, I want to talk to those of you who actually consider yourselves entitled to close to a $29,000 a year full-time salary for doing a job that requires no skill, no expertise and no education; those who think a fry cook ought to earn an entry-level income similar to a dental assistant; those who insist the guy putting the lettuce on my Big Mac ought to make more than the emergency medical technician who saves lives for a living; those who believe you should automatically be able to “live comfortably,” as if “comfort” is a human right.

On the other hand some think otherwise....
"Everyone deserves to live comfortably if they work hard, and working in fast food is working hard."


How bout you?
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/fast-food-workers-you-dont-deserve-15-an-hour-to-flip-burgers-and-thats-ok/

I started out at very low paying jobs and worked my way through college. I had a small amount of college debt that I paid off completely. I worked hard to become successful at what I do.

You don't necessarily need a college education to do well but you do need to work hard and work your way up.

I think the whole $15 an hour movement is fueled by unions who have been losing members like crazy and need a boost to survive.

Many of the low paying jobs that I took when young are now taken by illegal aliens. Our young now can't compete with the labor influx.

$15? No. If you have worked in fast food or order based service restaurants then you know that they do deserve higher wages than the $7-8 range that very many of them make. You can't make a living, even a one bedroom apartment and utilities commuting on that when your hours are cut to shave overhead and make profit for the corporation that's disgustingly rich.

http://laborpains.org/2015/04/15/seius-astroturf-industry-grows/

so,without any special Training they ought to make more than a Firefighter?

great idea, if the consumers want to pay 15.00 dollars for a dollar menu burger...

the minimum wage is woefully low and should be raised to 15 dollars an hour for all entry level jobs....ceo's in this country would be well advised to emulate Dan Price of seattle based, high-tech company Gravity Payments....he has raised the bar for ceo's who actually look at employees as human beings rather than just production units....jmo

... and we slide farther and farther from the free market economy that made us strong in the first place.

Why not just model our system after Karl Marx?

well, it won't help anything because the consumers are the only people that would suffer because of it...the companies, stockholders and CEO's won't lose money, so they would just raise prices on everything to compensate... so nothing would change at all...

Fastfood workers,
are too stupid and too unclean
to deserve the minimum wage.

And now,
the morons think their nastiness
is worth 15 bucks an hour?

isn't that what obarry wants?

his method was to cut his own salary by 90 % to accomplish this...no cost to the consumer at all.....his approach is radical, yes.....but i think he is just trying to set an example.....even a scoundrel like Henry Ford knew that his employees should be able to purchase the product they labored to produce...

men with 8 dollar an hour jobs can't even afford to treat their kids to the dollar menu...

i agree with that, that's the only way it can work if the stock holders and CEO's take pay cuts... i don't see it happening, but it seems the greediness needs to stop...

Why stop at $15/hour? Why is that the magic number? Why not $30? Minimum wage isn't supposed to be a living wage, and raising the minimum, whatever that number may be, only provides incentive to stay at the bottom instead of trying to reach the top.

i firmly believe the "trickle down" effect never was designed to help the economy, but to make the rich richer... seems that putting more money in the hands of the lower/middle class is the only way to make the economy strong again... the rich aren't spending money like the poor would, and that's what the economy needs is the poor/middle classes going to the best buys, ma and pa stores, spending money where it needs to be spent... where as the rich only spend theirs on investments snd other things rich people have, just spreading the money between themselves...

if 99% of the population is spending money and putting it back into the system, doesn't that seem to end the problems we see today rather than when 1% are sitting on billions?

The minimum wage is woefully low.
$15.00 and hour, to work in a burger joint seems like insanity to me.

And may just be another diversionary tactic to take the 'everyday person' off of bigger & more frightening issues.

Like having made in America products & full time jobs. And a hundred other issues.
*cough* Heathcare , immigration,disappearing & displacement of the 'middle class'

you need look no further than the airline industry in this country for an example of the greed of corporations....

the free market decided that several of these companies were mismanaged and deserved to go out of business....but how is that they have emerged to operate again ?

they successfully used the bankruptcy court to strip their employees of hard earned pensions, salary reductions, paid holidays, cuts in overtime pay, raising contributions to their health benefits and numerous other cutbacks...

they only want to use that free-market b/s when it suits THEIR goals....

the free-market spoke loudly when their stocks were taken off the big board...
please, tell me why they are still in business ???

What will happen when service worker jobs that are unskilled are all that is available for employment?

Those in poverty should not be comfortable(I think Ben Franklin said that}. Minimum Wage is a great incentive to succeed.