Victory For Fast-Food Workers
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich announced a National Labor Relations Board ruling that should be a game-changer in the movement to raise fast-food worker’s pay to $15 an hour.
Click here for reuse options!Important victory today for fast-food workers: The National Labor Relations Board has just ruled that the McDonalds Corporation is a “joint employer” with its franchisees – potentially making the fast-food giant responsible for working conditions (including pay) at its 14,000 restaurants. McDonald’s and other chains have repeatedly claimed their franchisees are responsible, not them. But the NLRB says McDonald’s controls the terms of the operations of its restaurants.
The implications of the ruling are significant. Not only will the McDonalds Corporation and other national chains become even more central in the movement to raise fast-food workers’ wages to $15 an hour; they won’t be able to circumvent state and local laws by arguing (as does the International Franchise Association in a lawsuit filed in Seattle) that fast-food and other franchisees are small businesses, not subject to such laws on the same terms as big businesses.
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mdram July 30th, 2014 at 01:22
This means I’ll have to pay 10 cents more for my burger. I’m outraged!
mdram July 30th, 2014 at 01:22
This means I’ll have to pay 10 cents more for my burger. I’m outraged!
fantagor July 30th, 2014 at 02:21
McDonald’s employees are notorious for off-shoring their money in the Cayman Islands and cornering the gold market. Check that. Investment bankers are notorious for that. Sorry for the mistake. It was an honest one.
fantagor July 30th, 2014 at 02:21
McDonald’s employees are notorious for off-shoring their money in the Cayman Islands and cornering the gold market. Check that. Investment bankers are notorious for that. Sorry for the mistake. It was an honest one.
Rusty Shackleford July 30th, 2014 at 04:02
Their burgers just aren’t as tasty without being seasoned by the tears of the exploited working class.
Carla Akins July 30th, 2014 at 04:13
That must be what they put in their fries…
Rusty Shackleford July 30th, 2014 at 04:02
Their burgers just aren’t as tasty without being seasoned by the tears of the exploited working class.
Carla Akins July 30th, 2014 at 04:13
That must be what they put in their fries…
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 08:56
Nice going, libs! Now you’ve just priced yourself out of a job! Good news for touchscreen makers though!!
OldLefty July 30th, 2014 at 09:27
And actually, the industries are pricing themselves out of customers, but on the other hand, these Big Businesses can always depend upon government welfare to keep them afloat.
But they never see the long term.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 09:47
Or worse.. the President will take over a big company *cough GM* that’s too big to fail.
Abby Normal July 30th, 2014 at 11:15
Right. And I suppose the USA would be better off if GM and Chrysler had been liquidated – taking the parts industry down with them and, most likely, Ford Motor Company in the process.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 11:21
Actually, YES!! The companies would have been forced to review and REFORM their previously unsuccessful ways! You liberals don’t really think too far out of the box, do you?
mea_mark July 30th, 2014 at 11:33
This is a liberal site, attacking liberals in general will get your comment deleted and yourself banned if you are not careful.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:36
Think of it this way Mark, as long as he’s posting here he’s not out expressing his gun rights by open carrying in some family restaurant.
mea_mark July 30th, 2014 at 11:40
Well, he is not banned yet. As long as he keeps it clean, he is free to waste as much time here as he wants.
Abby Normal July 30th, 2014 at 09:43
You’re right! Anyone who puts in an 8-hour day is grossly over-paid if they make $15 an hour, $2,400 a month, $28,800 per year. Damn, they might be able to pay their utilities, buy food for their family and put a few bucks away for things like car repairs, clothing . . . .
Slavery is illegal. Get over it.
R.J. Carter July 30th, 2014 at 09:43
There are no chains under those counters.
Abby Normal August 5th, 2014 at 12:52
No, there are no chains. It’s not slavery but it’s something close – it’s called exploitation. Payday loans and title loan establishments exploit poor people too. I still believe if you’re going to ask someone to put in an 8-hour day of honest labor, they should be paid a decent wage. Costco is a good example of a good, fair employer. They pay their starting employees $18 an hour plus benefits. It’s good for the employees, good for the customers and good for Costco. Everybody wins.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 09:47
It ain’t slavery unless they’re forced to work there at gunpoint or in chains. If the employer wasn’t paying enough, he’d have no employees. Get over your idea that it’s “an employer’s duty to see to it everyone lives a luxurious life.”
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:18
Explain the situation in Europe…..http://politicalblindspot.com/mcdonalds-employees-in-denmark-make-21-an-hour-heres-how-they-did-it/
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:21
Explain the situation in (slightly) less socialist California!
http://badideaca.com/
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:24
A good troll always answers a question with another question w/o answering the first question because they can’t. Thanks for living up to your avi.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:26
Already answered socialistboy.. on the source article! To sum it up for you, we question McDonald’s “still making profits hand over fist” and further question whether the stockholders of the PUBLICLY OWNED COMPANY would tolerate such voluntary, unnecessary expenses. A good business manager minimizes overheard, and I guarantee Denmark could get good employees at minimum wage still.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:32
The only part of “theory” where “socialism” plays a part is where I have to supplement low wages w/food stamps.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:33
That’s it? That’s your response? I knew you weren’t going to be much of a challenge when you devoted all your liberal rage to my avatar! Perhaps we should call you POPULISMBOY instead.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:35
All my rage, hardly.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:36
Do show.. do show! Call me a troll again for having the nerve to offer a counter link.. or.. wait.. call me a RACIST! You and I both know the rules for calling someone a racist have changed from actually being a racist to “disagrees with liberal platitudes!”
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:40
Once again trying to change the topic, raising the wage lifts all even Henry Ford knew that 100 years ago.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:43
Actually Henry Ford NEVER accepted that, and most economists will tell you that raising minimum wage only results in lost jobs or inflation. These, of course, are economists NOT on Obama’s cabinet.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:44
And yet it is working everywhere it is applied.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:44
Yet another… well I don’t know you well enough to call you an outright LIAR.. let’s call it.. misperception. It’s actually NOT working out well where hiking the minimum wage has been tried.
http://www.minimumwage.com/myths/
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:47
LOL
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:48
Can’t argue with an LOL! I’m sold! Let’s ramp up the minimum wage and also raise taxes on all rich people since none of them are paying the lion’s share already! Also, Obama 2016!!
Denise July 30th, 2014 at 10:49
all the states that have raised the minimum wage have a growing economy. more businesses are locating there. the red states are not seeing the same kind of growth. citizens in northern euopean countries don’t have k street lobbyists who will finance political campaign if that person votes to do what’s best for them and not we the people.
also, european countries have laws and regulations that protect their emoyees better thsn laws and regulations in the usa. american corporations have to abide by these laws and regulations. and if a country says a corporation has to pay its citizen sufficiency to live, then that company has to abide by those laws.
you need to ask yourself why is it CEO’s think it’s okay for them to earn anywhere between $40-100 million dollars a year doesn’t cause prices to rise but giving their employees a decent wage will. it doesn’t make sense. if anything, their pay should cost prices to rise, they earn more, plus bonuses and stock options.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:52
Because all their money trickles down……./S
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:58
Not under Obama.. it all trickles SOUTH of the border and over into Gaza. Thanks for electing that Charlatan btw!
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:01
You’re right about it going south..read Cayman Is. and overseas..read Switzerland.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 11:02
Maybe US Taxes are too high and you’re lucky the jobs didn’t go with the profits as well. Oh wait, they ARE! :)
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:07
Yes, that’s what we should strive for, living conditions and an environment equal to China.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 11:12
YOU should strive for your OWN living conditions, and urge others to do the same instead of demanding employers pay more than market wages to market quality employees. It actually IS possible to get ahead in the world by bettering yourself instead of at someone else’s cost! First step, stop voting Democrat.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:19
Actually I was thinking of voting for Mcpain in 08 up until the day he picked Sara, and then it hit me.WTF
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 11:20
Yeah, I’ve had a $1000 standing wage offered since all the Palin Derangement Syndrome began, to ANYONE who could coherently explain why Palin is “like stupid and stuff!” To this day, that $1000 has only sat, gathering interest. I felt like charging some of the attempters money for insulting me by using the Tina Fey “Alaska Sketch” as proof of something! :D
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:26
Well when you criticise someone for using a teleprompter while using one, writing notes on your hands, and are unable to name a single newspaper when asked which ones you read it’s not hard to make a case for it.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 11:27
Yeah.. because teleprompters and hands can convey the exact same amount of data! Couldn’t name a newspaper on a rushed interview she had no time to prepare for other than more PERTINENT questions… yeah.. that curve ball sure proved something. Sorry.. that 1000$ still seems to be safe.
RioBravoHombre July 31st, 2014 at 05:02
Liar.
RioBravoHombre July 31st, 2014 at 05:02
Horseshit, and lies.
CanterburyTom August 6th, 2014 at 01:39
You’re right. That’s all we hear from this president.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:57
Actually the “growing economy”, if true, is IN SPITE OF the raised minimum wage, not a result of. http://www.minimumwage.com/myths/ I’m not sure where you’re getting your economic information from but many Red States are doing gangbusters right now.. in spite of your messiah trying to flood them with illegal immigrants! USA protects its employees adequately. If it didn’t accidents would happen by the bushel and investigations would ensue. If a CEO makes my company churn out $20 Million a year, I can easily justify paying him what other companies would pay to steal him from me. Get it now? Are you getting the MARKET DRIVEN SALARIES concept? Long story short, if a job doesn’t pay enough, the company won’t be able to staff it, and they’d learn to pay what it takes to bring the low skilled worker into play. They dont need any misguided, rich-envy proletariat liberals to tell them how much to pay.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:04
Another right wing myth
http://www.reformer.com/opinion/ci_25573525/debunking-myths-ceo-salaries
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 11:19
One can easily find lefty blogs which use questionable data to refute things liberals don’t like to hear. Give me a day and I’ll find you a blog that “proves” Benghazi never happened!
RioBravoHombre July 31st, 2014 at 05:01
Liar.
RioBravoHombre July 31st, 2014 at 05:01
Lies.
RioBravoHombre July 31st, 2014 at 05:00
ThaNk God assplugs like you can’t send restaurant worker’s jobs to China. Because, I know you people would if you could.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 08:56
Nice going, libs! Now you’ve just priced yourself out of a job! Good news for touchscreen makers though!!
OldLefty July 30th, 2014 at 09:27
And actually, the industries are pricing themselves out of customers, but on the other hand, these Big Businesses can always depend upon government welfare to keep them afloat.
But they never see the long term.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 09:47
Or worse.. the President will take over a big company *cough GM* that’s too big to fail.
Abby Normal July 30th, 2014 at 11:15
Right. And I suppose the USA would be better off if GM and Chrysler had been liquidated – taking the parts industry down with them and, most likely, Ford Motor Company in the process.
mea_mark July 30th, 2014 at 11:33
This is a liberal site, attacking liberals in general will get your comment deleted and yourself banned if you are not careful.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:36
Think of it this way Mark, as long as he’s posting here he’s not out expressing his gun rights by open carrying in some family restaurant.
mea_mark July 30th, 2014 at 11:40
Well, he is not banned yet. As long as he keeps it clean, he is free to waste as much time here as he wants.
Abby Normal July 30th, 2014 at 09:43
You’re right! Anyone who puts in an 8-hour day is grossly over-paid if they make $15 an hour, $2,400 a month, $28,800 per year. Damn, they might be able to pay their utilities, buy food for their family and put a few bucks away for things like car repairs, clothing . . . .
Slavery is illegal. Get over it.
R.J. Carter July 30th, 2014 at 09:43
There are no chains under those counters.
Abby Normal August 5th, 2014 at 12:52
No, there are no chains. It’s not slavery but it’s something close – it’s called exploitation. Payday loans and title loan establishments exploit poor people too. I still believe if you’re going to ask someone to put in an 8-hour day of honest labor, they should be paid a decent wage. Costco is a good example of a good, fair employer. They pay their starting employees $18 an hour plus benefits. It’s good for the employees, good for the customers and good for Costco. Everybody wins.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 09:47
It ain’t slavery unless they’re forced to work there at gunpoint or in chains. If the employer wasn’t paying enough, he’d have no employees. Get over your idea that it’s “an employer’s duty to see to it everyone lives a luxurious life.”
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:18
Explain the situation in Europe…..http://politicalblindspot.com/mcdonalds-employees-in-denmark-make-21-an-hour-heres-how-they-did-it/
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:21
Explain the situation in (slightly) less socialist California!
http://badideaca.com/
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:24
A good troll always answers a question with another question w/o answering the first question because they can’t. Thanks for living up to your avi.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:26
Already answered socialistboy.. on the source article! To sum it up for you, we question McDonald’s “still making profits hand over fist” and further question whether the stockholders of the PUBLICLY OWNED COMPANY would tolerate such voluntary, unnecessary expenses. A good business manager minimizes overheard, and I guarantee Denmark could get good employees at minimum wage still.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:32
The only part of your “theory” where “socialism” plays a part is where I have to supplement low wages w/food stamps.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:35
All my rage, hardly.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:36
Do show.. do show! Call me a troll again for having the nerve to offer a counter link.. or.. wait.. call me a RACIST! You and I both know the rules for calling someone a racist have changed from actually being a racist to “disagrees with liberal platitudes!”
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:40
Once again trying to change the topic, raising the wage lifts all, even Henry Ford knew that 100 years ago.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:43
Actually Henry Ford NEVER accepted that, and most economists will tell you that raising minimum wage only results in lost jobs or inflation. These, of course, are economists NOT on Obama’s cabinet.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:44
And yet it is working everywhere it is applied.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:44
Yet another… well I don’t know you well enough to call you an outright LIAR.. let’s call it.. misperception. It’s actually NOT working out well where hiking the minimum wage has been tried.
http://www.minimumwage.com/myths/
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:47
LOL
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:48
Can’t argue with an LOL! I’m sold! Let’s ramp up the minimum wage and also raise taxes on all rich people since none of them are paying the lion’s share already! Also, Obama 2016!!
Denise July 30th, 2014 at 10:49
all the states that have raised the minimum wage have a growing economy. more businesses are locating there. the red states are not seeing the same kind of growth. citizens in northern euopean countries don’t have k street lobbyists who will finance political campaign if that person votes to do what’s best for them and not we the people.
also, european countries have laws and regulations that protect their emoyees better thsn laws and regulations in the usa. american corporations have to abide by these laws and regulations. and if a country says a corporation has to pay its citizen sufficiency to live, then that company has to abide by those laws.
you need to ask yourself why is it CEO’s think it’s okay for them to earn anywhere between $40-100 million dollars a year doesn’t cause prices to rise but giving their employees a decent wage will. it doesn’t make sense. if anything, their pay should cost prices to rise, they earn more, plus bonuses and stock options.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 10:52
Because all their money trickles down……./S
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:58
Not under Obama.. it all trickles SOUTH of the border and over into Gaza. Thanks for electing that Charlatan btw!
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:01
You’re right about it going south..read Cayman Is. and overseas..read Switzerland.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 11:02
Maybe US Taxes are too high and you’re lucky the jobs didn’t go with the profits as well. Oh wait, they ARE! :)
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:07
Yes, that’s what we should strive for, living conditions and an environment equal to China.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 11:12
YOU should strive for your OWN living conditions, and urge others to do the same instead of demanding employers pay more than market wages to market quality employees. It actually IS possible to get ahead in the world by bettering yourself instead of at someone else’s cost! First step, stop voting Democrat.
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:19
Actually I was thinking of voting for Mcpain in 08 up until the day he picked Sara, and then it hit me.WTF
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 11:20
Yeah, I’ve had a $1000 standing wage offered since all the Palin Derangement Syndrome began, to ANYONE who could coherently explain why Palin is “like stupid and stuff!” To this day, that $1000 has only sat, gathering interest. I felt like charging some of the attempters money for insulting me by using the Tina Fey “Alaska Sketch” as proof of something! :D
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:26
Well when you criticise someone for using a teleprompter while using one, writing notes on your hands, and are unable to name a single newspaper when asked which ones you read it’s not hard to make a case for it.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 11:27
Yeah.. because teleprompters and hands can convey the exact same amount of data! Couldn’t name a newspaper on a rushed interview she had no time to prepare for other than more PERTINENT questions… yeah.. that curve ball sure proved something. Sorry.. that 1000$ still seems to be safe.
RioBravoHombre July 31st, 2014 at 05:02
Liar.
RioBravoHombre July 31st, 2014 at 05:02
Horseshit, and lies.
CanterburyTom August 6th, 2014 at 01:39
You’re right. That’s all we hear from this president.
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 10:57
Actually the “growing economy”, if true, is IN SPITE OF the raised minimum wage, not a result of. http://www.minimumwage.com/myths/ I’m not sure where you’re getting your economic information from but many Red States are doing gangbusters right now.. in spite of your messiah trying to flood them with illegal immigrants! USA protects its employees adequately. If it didn’t accidents would happen by the bushel and investigations would ensue. If a CEO makes my company churn out $20 Million a year, I can easily justify paying him what other companies would pay to steal him from me. Get it now? Are you getting the MARKET DRIVEN SALARIES concept? Long story short, if a job doesn’t pay enough, the company won’t be able to staff it, and they’d learn to pay what it takes to bring the low skilled worker into play. They dont need any misguided, rich-envy proletariat liberals to tell them how much to pay.
Hirightnow July 30th, 2014 at 11:00
So, as long as there’s one poor slob who’ll work for shit wages, everyone should have to?
You’re a special kind of stupid, aren’t you?
(Don’t bother answering that question; you’ll likely get it wrong.)
edmeyer_able July 30th, 2014 at 11:04
Another right wing myth
http://www.reformer.com/opinion/ci_25573525/debunking-myths-ceo-salaries
OrionElectra July 30th, 2014 at 11:19
One can easily find lefty blogs which use questionable data to refute things liberals don’t like to hear. Give me a day and I’ll find you a blog that “proves” Benghazi never happened!
RioBravoHombre July 31st, 2014 at 05:01
Liar.
RioBravoHombre July 31st, 2014 at 05:01
Lies.
RioBravoHombre July 31st, 2014 at 05:00
Thank God assplugs like you can’t send restaurant worker’s jobs to China. Because, I know you people would if you could.
Clinton2016 July 30th, 2014 at 23:51
$15 really? We can do better than that! Let’s try $20 for all jobs, and require all companies provide healthcare.
Rusty Shackleford July 31st, 2014 at 06:37
I can’t argue against $15 an hour, but it’s easier to argue against $20 and free healthcare, so I’ll just pretend that’s what my opposition requested and act as though these things that are unequal by definition are equivalent! So much easier than talking like an adult and actually addressing reality!
Clinton2016 July 30th, 2014 at 23:51
$15 really? We can do better than that! Let’s try $20 for all jobs, and require all companies provide healthcare.
Rusty Shackleford July 31st, 2014 at 06:37
I can’t argue against $15 an hour, but it’s easier to argue against $20 and free healthcare, so I’ll just pretend that’s what my opposition requested and act as though these things that are unequal by definition are equivalent! So much easier than talking like an adult and actually addressing reality!
sassie21 July 31st, 2014 at 10:51
Food for thought………….how many employees will these fast food places be able to employ and how many jobs will these few employees be doing? Now consider these places being able to hire 10 employees instead of 20, won’t there be more people out of work and higher unemployment? What will be the price tag for something that sounds too good?
sassie21 July 31st, 2014 at 10:51
Food for thought………….how many employees will these fast food places be able to employ and how many jobs will these few employees be doing? Now consider these places being able to hire 10 employees instead of 20, won’t there be more people out of work and higher unemployment? What will be the price tag for something that sounds too good?
Hanhnibal September 2nd, 2014 at 21:02
In this neck of the woods, most jobs are paying $8-11 an hour. There’s no way fast food workers are going to get $15 here.
Hanhnibal September 2nd, 2014 at 21:02
In this neck of the woods, most jobs are paying $8-11 an hour. There’s no way fast food workers are going to get $15 here.