A recent wave of strikes by fast-food employees in four cities is expected to spread to Milwaukee Wednesday as demands for higher pay shake up an industry previously insulated from worker unrest.
Front-line, limited-service restaurant workers, a category that includes fast-food employees, earned a nationwide average $9.05 an hour in March, up 2.7% the past three years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. By contrast, the pay of all private-sector non-management employees is up 5.7% in that period.
Adjusting for inflation, fast-food wages have fallen 36 cents an hour since 2010, even as the industry has raked in record profits.
Saying they can't live on such meager pay, the workers are demanding $15 an hour and the right to form unions without fear of reprisal. Although all U.S. workers legally have that freedom, many who try to organize are fired or punished with reduced hours, says Dorian Warren, an associate professor of political science and public affairs at Columbia University.
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Taking a job at a fast food restaurant is only a career move if you're motivated and and SMART ENOUGH to work your way up the ladder.
If you think that spending years flipping burgers and taking orders is a career move...that's your problem.
These folks DON'T GET IT!
I wonder if these protesters ever ask themselves, how these food chains would pay for their $15 hr. Maybe raise their $2 burgers to $10. How long would these chains last if they did that? Do you think they even give a shit?
Flipping burgers will ONLY earn you what you deserve. WHY YOU ASK? Because there are plenty of people who'll take that ENTRY LEVEL job at the salary you're protesting about.
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yum brands peddles their junk and profits 4.1 billion in 2012 the top CEOs of Yum earned 27.5 million in salary and of course the writer of this article is worried about the rising cost of a burger rather than paying workers a living wage.
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