Thursday, November 21, 2013

You'll Never Believe What McDonald's Just Told Its Own Employees

http://www.policymic.com/articles/74297/you-ll-never-believe-what-mcdonald-s-just-told-its-own-employees

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are they in competition with Walmart for worst employer of the millennium?
The news: McResource Line, the McDonald's employee helpline, has again made the news for offering questionable economic advice. The fast-food company, which appears to be taking cues from Charles Dickens' oeuvre, has suggested that its workers get out of holiday debt by hocking "unwanted possessions" on eBay and Craigslist, and that they can feel more full after meals by "breaking food into pieces."
The background: McDonald's is a wildly successful corporate giant whose profitability and ability to offer low prices is contingent on the low wages it offers its workers. As a result, the company is often the target of unions and other anti-corporate organizations. 
In August, the group Fast Food Forward held multi-city strikes in order to highlight the difficulties faced by poorly paid fast food and retail employees, and to demand a $15 minimum wage — more than double the current federal minimum wage of $7.25. 
The union-affiliated organization also funded a study at the University of California, Berkeley, which estimated that low-paying jobs cost taxpayers almost $7 billion per year in public assistance to fast food and retail workers. 
if true then the republicans should create a war against big business, low wage "job creators", instead of double dumping on those in that jackpot, 
but since they can fight back and sponsor bribe money the poor and low wage people are a better target, you know them they won't do anything unless they all are on board to kill it.
The link between underpayment and public cost was underscored when McDonald's worker Nancy Salgado's recorded call to the McResource line — in which she's urged to apply for food stamps and Medicaid — went viral. As did McResource's sample household budget, which assumes that full-time employees have a second job, and fails to account for heating costs.
The bigger picture: In February's State of the Union address, President Barack Obamapledged to increase the federal minimum wage to $9 (a rate higher than that offered by all but one state), and to establish future increases commensurate with inflation.
Despite the executive push, Congress seems unlikely to take up such a bill any time soon, and the fight for higher wages has dropped down to states and cities, where increases are unlikely to influence multinational companies like McDonald's.
is the reality of republican hardass stand of nothing for Americans they are tantamount to Seinfeld's  soup Nazi except they are denying life not soup.