Mc D's workers to strike?

[Lee Borgersen]

About 200 fast food workers and community supporters rallied for a strike Monday morning to push for a $15 minimum wage.


“Hold the burgers, hold the fries, make our wages super sized,” attendees chanted, according to Stephanie Gasca, one of the event organizers. Fast food workers organized with Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (Center for Workers United in the Struggle) for a rally in the morning and a day-long strike.

The Labor Day rally took place outside McDonald’s on Seventh Street West near Madison Street in St. Paul, but employees from fast food restaurants all over the city  attended.

Fast food workers and community allies rallied for a $15 minimum wage and other benefits on Labor Day in 2017. (Courtesy of Stephanie Gasca)
So many workers came from a McDonald’s in Minneapolis (at Lake Street near 31st Avenue) that the restaurant was temporarily closed until at least 4 p.m.

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, St. Paul mayoral candidate Elizabeth Dickinson, and St. Paul councilmember and mayoral candidate Dai Thao also attended. Mayoral candidate Melvin Carter stopped by the office later where the group was celebrating Minneapolis’s $15 minimum wage decision earlier this summer.

“The CEO of McDonald’s is making $9,000 an hour and can probably afford to get by on $6,000 an hour,” Ellison said in a prepared statement. “It’s absolutely ridiculous that they claim they can’t afford to pay workers $15 minimum wage and I’m proud to stand with workers this Labor Day as they fight to reclaim what the true meaning of Labor Day really means, and that is to uplift workers.”



McDonald’s employee and rally attendee Samuel Callahan called the event a huge success:confused: especially because one McDonald’s location was closed for the morning. Callahan has been working for McDonald’s for a year, but said he’ll have to work there two more years before he gets any paid vacation time.

“Right now, I’m working two full-time jobs just to put food on my table. I’m working 17 hours a day. One job cannot accomplish what I need to do for my family with the pay I’m getting,” Callahan said. “They just need to make a change. We’re not going to take this anymore. We’re hard working people and we should be paid for what we work for.”

About a dozen cities including Minneapolis have approved the $15 minimum wage.


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[Rebel SS]

So, now a Big Slack or a Filet 'o carp will now cost ya $10, with fries   

The 1976 prices were better....

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[Steve-o]

Our idea of a "meal" has changed as well - with everything super-sized these days.

I remember when McDonnald's advertised a regular hamburger, small fry, and small drink "with change back" for your dollar.

[snow1]

I see the change around my area,small mom and pop resturants,shorten kitchen hours after they raise prices to cover labor costs and people refrain from eating out,.$2.99 1/3lb burger was a great deal twice a week,today that same burger is $10.95,great burger but not for $10.these fast food shops will cut hours,some might fold shop,its not the public responsibilty to support these people.

[The General]

They will bring in where you order at a station yourself.  A couple people cooking and one handing out food is all they will need.  Maybe someone to clean up a bit and refill condiments.  These people are going to put themselves out of a job.

[glenn57]

I agree!

[Rebel SS]

I agree!

Me too!

[LPS]

I know people that have years of experience and are very good at their jobs and only get 15 or 16 dollars an hour.  Yes they could have done something different for more money but we need them in the medical field and many other fields and they are proud of what they do.  SO anyone can flip a burger or hand you said burger with almost no training.  To me that gives you about $7 an hour.  Case closed.....  AND don't use a union to get you more than you are worth.  GET some education and a real job not something designed for kids during breaks at school. 

[LPS]

AND McDonalds would have to shutter their doors if they paid their unskilled workers $15 an hour.  The price of the burgers would sky rocket.  It is the dollar menu that is the bread and butter of the fast food places.  I respect the people that work there but don't think it is a career job.  Get your ass into something that you are proud to do not something that is just easy...

[mike89]

but you some of those people that work there and they are getting gov. supplements checks we need to put that in it's place too!!!!!!!!!  welfare is off the grid.....

[Boar]

so i spent 30 hears to get to wher im at. screw that. i need a 9 dollar raise to.fk this, my wife held 3 jobs and a family in crises to achieve her BSN, now at age 50 shes goimg back for her masters to ensure our retiremnet. not fkn picket  cause we cant have a decent retirement to lead the life style we CHOOSE TO LEAD, WE GET A JOB AND ANOTHER, AND ANOTHER. WHAT HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE, I CANT MAKE ON 8 DOLLARS AN HOUR TO FEED MY FAMILY, TOUGH SHT. GET ANOTHER JOB, OR ANOTHER JOB,. ooooh daycare is so expensive.. ive got nuthj g left after i pay for food rent and daycare.GET ANOTHER JOB!!. this hit such a raw fkn never for me. my wife and i are.doing very well because.WE.FRICKING BUST OUR ASSES TO DO IT.! DONT POST THIS CRAP.AGIN. NOT.NEEDED HERE

[Rebel SS]

Mickey D's, like all fast food joints, is the entry level job market for kiddies in high school and first jobs, that first stepping stone into the work world. Can't expect to make market value jing in a first time job; gotta earn it. Not making enough? Get another one. Cry about they have college to go to, etc. Ya? So did I and my buddies. I worked two jobs my entire life...right up until 5 years ago, and for a while, three, while I went to school and got my LE degree so I could take my state boards. Stop yer whinin' and get off yer lazy azz. Like my whiny pup neighbor, 35 yo, good health, he and his fat wife. Works 9-5. M-F, at the cable company answering phones/sales. (He does) She quit her job at a school for kids with ADHD and stuff, and in doing "Daycare" at home...unlicensed. She sits on the porch in her recliner, yells at the kids that just run in the backyard, while she has her nose in her iPhone. No structured activities, etc., for those 4 daycare kids. It's a f**n joke. Then he whines they have no money, and he doesn't have TIME to do anything! Yet, they eat most meals out, and order all their food from the internet delivered...tell me THAT ain't spendy. I told him "You don't have a job; you have a vacation!!" Putting their house up for sale after only being here for 5 years, because she wants to live closer to Mummy and Daddy. (they're one hour away in Iowa) He says it's too tough here....!!! WTF!! In the five years he's lived there, he's never fertilized, used any weed killer, trimmed any trees, done NOTHING to the house  or grounds (Paint is peeling off, shingles are broke, one door is busted and just hangs there, and on and on.) Place has gone from a nice house to a craphole, and he told me he'll get a lot more than he paid for it. NOT! That's what's wrong with this country; too many sissified whiners that think everything should be handed to them because it's "Their right". Horsepucky. It a PRIVILEGE, scooter.

[LPS]

Damn right. 

[Rebel SS]

Ya.