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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: 5, Interesting) by mhajicek on Wednesday November 11 2015, @05:41AM
I went to two years of tech school for machining and it worked out fairly well for me. I would not encourage my sons to follow in my footsteps however. It's gotten so that unless you're one of the best you're treated only a little better than a fast food worker. And yes, automation is making fast inroads on machining jobs. What employers want/need now are a small number of very skilled and experienced people to make the robots go, but there are fewer paths to develop those skills and they don't want to pay you to develop them. I'm thinking the industry is going to require mind uploading or memory copying to preserve skills and experience unless strong-enough AI can be implemented before too many of us retire or die off.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday November 12 2015, @04:07AM
I'm thinking the industry is going to require mind uploading or memory copying to preserve skills and experience unless strong-enough AI can be implemented before too many of us retire or die off.
No, it won't.
The skills and experience simply *won't* be preserved. The BRIC nations will reinvent this stuff and they'll preserve it, while our society looks either like Somalia or Mad Max.