Burger King Workers Need to Get a Real Job

[untermensche]

And yet the environment in the US is probably the cleanest it has been in 200 years, certainly far cleaner than it was 100 years ago. Also, US worker pay from 100 years ago is up almost 10-fold. Something about your world view doesn't match up with the facts of reality.

What are you talking about?

The environment the corporate system is rapidly altering is the global environment. The corporate system is global.

We are all being driven over the cliff by the corporate system. The profits of corporations are more important than the environment.

Nobody ever voted to allow this to be. It is just the way the system with the power wants it.

And in terms of chemical pollution in the environment the US is not cleaner than it was 100 years ago.

We have chemicals that didn't exist 100 years ago all over the place.

This is one reason why some people think the cancer rates are going up.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Often these low pay service jobs are the only jobs left in a region. You now have middle age and older workers with college and post graduate degrees working there; workers who used to have solid, middle-class jobs -- sent overseas by Republican backed policies or wiped out by corporate consolidation.
Now these Republicans blame the victims of their own policies.

You'd almost think corporate America didn't want a 'troublesome' middle class; that it preferred a large pool of needy, compliant, apolitical workers.

What we are seeing is a widening gap between the cognitive educated class and the rest. Republican policies have almost nothing to do with the cause of this.

Sorry, but this is Republican thinking.

Yes, overall that is what's happening but what we are seeing *NOW* is the result of the great recession, not the gap between the knowledge worker and the unskilled worker.

 

[Valjean]

What we are seeing is a widening gap between the cognitive educated class and the rest. Republican policies have almost nothing to do with the cause of this.

The "cognitive, educated class" are progressive Democrats. The "economic royalists," today's oligarchs, couldn't reason their way out of a paper bag.
Just look at the Senate "Science" committee.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

At franchises of McDonald's and Burger King and other fast food restaurants famous for minimum wage jobs, are you as a franchise owner allowed to pay employees more, or are wages fixed centrally, and forced on you through the franchise agreement? Who is the bad guy here? The Franchise owner or the corporate CEO?

Wages are not fixed centrally. Local establishments can offer more if they need to attract workers.

So why are we slamming Burger King Corporation itself, and not the franchise owners?

 

[Ford]

Those look like In-n-Out Burgers.

You bet your sweet bippy those are In-n-Out Burgers.

Incidentally, In-n-Out pays their workers more than the average fast food wage, uses better quality ingredients than the average fast food chain, and yet still somehow manages to be fabulously profitable.


If they can be successful without paying rock-bottom wages, then what's Burger King's excuse?