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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:59PM
Like this [businessinsider.com] one?
Sounds like we'd get better burgers, and maybe could finally stop putting people to work in those godawful environments in the first place.
We really need to get past this idea that automating away work is a bad idea, and move onto figuring out how to distribute the little work and more resources there are left in a remotely fair and social system. The 40 hour workweek was the labor struggle of the early 20th century; perhaps the 20 hour workweek could be the push of the 21st? The idea that we have millionaires living on capital denigrating anyone for handouts while living on the fruits of the labor of others in a market where supply is vastly outpacing demand is a bit absurd, and that anyone is actually listening to these sniveling twats seems only to revolve around their owning media outlets.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:14PM
We really need to get past this idea that automating away work is a bad idea, and move onto figuring out how to distribute the little work and more resources there are left in a remotely fair and social system.
This isn't a real problem. In societies that don't massively disincentivize employing people, they don't have to figure this out.