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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday November 11 2015, @02:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the rise-of-the-proletariat dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:07PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:07PM (#261708) Journal

    Depends on your MOS. I have aheard of some who never leave the base and have lots of free time to dick around and yea thy do have laptops and consoles. Many of these were assigned to FOB's or forward operating bases. Those people were colloquially called fobbits.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:59PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:59PM (#261718)

    Its an interesting generation gap. A quarter century ago I was a REMF. In the olden days there WAS a rear echelon, you see, whereas now a days everyone is an IED or suicide bomber target, so the RE part of REMF no longer means anything.

    Ironic today is veterans day, I was talking to a MUCH younger vet who recently got out and almost all the slang and racial epitaphs have changed, its almost a communication breakdown.