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Hundreds of fast food workers are striking nationwide Tuesday, joining other workers in pressing for a more livable wage. But while some say $15 is a minimum needed to survive, some business owners say dishing out more pay would leave them struggling to keep their doors open.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fast-food-workers-strike-again-nationwide-for-15-an-hour
In New York City, rallies are being held in Harlem, the Financial District and Brooklyn in support of efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, reports CBS New York.
In Los Angeles, the local protests are organized by Service Employees International Union, and include fast-food, home-care and child-care workers, along with other "underpaid" employees, reports CBS Los Angeles.
"Is this the America we believe in? When someone works all day long and they still can't get by," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said during an early-morning rally in Downtown Brooklyn. "Does anyone believe that it's easy to get by in New York City on less than $15 an hour?"
Critics say a $15 minimum wage would obliterate opportunity and usher in higher taxes, but de Blasio said the opposite is true -- with more money to spend, low wage workers contribute more to the economy.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by K_benzoate on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:43AM
Hire three minimum-wage "security" guards (8 hour shifts, 24 hour coverage) and park them in a McDonald's uniform near the kiosks. They can browse the Internet on their phones for all it matters. Just being there will stop almost every casual vandal. Call the cops if someone starts tampering with food or destroying property.
I want some kind of basic income to be enacted, so automating away meaningless jobs is a high priority for me because it'll increase the amount of technologically displaced workers who will agitate for such a system. Humans shouldn't be making chips and milkshakes, and if that's all they're good for then we're all better off just paying them to sit home and watch Netflix, and occasionally spend money on other things to keep the whole project of civilization moving for the rest of us who care a bit more about the deep questions. And, of course, anyone is welcome to join that latter camp--and with a basic income there's virtually nothing stopping you if you have the interest.
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday November 11 2015, @05:28AM
There are already robot security guards. No need to waste money on unreliable teenagers.
Problem is, who's left to buy the food?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 4, Informative) by sjames on Wednesday November 11 2015, @08:03AM
That's where the Basic Income comes in.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:11PM
Install cameras, outsource watching the cams to India or mturk for "contractors" to watch them for pennies on the dollar of local security guard wages.
Already being done, so I'm told. If you have sufficient internet upstream to give patrons internet access while they eat "food" then you can use the unused bandwidth to shove cam footage, plus or minus customers trying to torrent stuff or DDOS zombie participants it works pretty well.