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U.S. Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide for $15/Hr

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 NotSanguine on Wednesday November 11 2015, @10:49PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Wednesday November 11 2015, @10:49PM (#261955) Homepage Journal

    Your point reminded me of this Emerson quote:

    If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to
    get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.
    See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving
    the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting
    that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The
    college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious
    and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to
    rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective.
    Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure
    interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by
    opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for
    himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for
    boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
                                    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Higher education should be the means for those who love learning to expand their horizons and create new knowledge through discovery and synthesis. It shouldn't be a diploma mill for semi-literates to say that they have a piece of paper in hopes of increasing their pay package.

    Pushing everyone to go to college has created so many perverse incentives for the schools, the students and the greedy folks who prey like vultures on the gullible and needy.

    --
    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
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