When the initiative was first announced, McDonald's decision to raise its employees' wages to $1 above minimum wage (albeit only at corporate-owned stores, a minority of the company's total count) was hailed as a radical example of corporate accountability - a direct repudiation of the far-left notion that "quarterly capitalism" and employers accepting responsibility for their employees were mutually exclusive.
As any steely eyed realist might've expected, McDonald's widely lauded "wage hike" was little more than a publicity stunt. In the three years since McDonald's announced the wage hike in 2015, the firm has essentially frozen employee wages, often leaving them just a few cents above minimum wage, as Bloomberg has discovered.
But the company doesn't expect to experience any blowback from this decision: After all, McDonald's never said it was pegging employees' wages to $1 above minimum wage. The company, it appears, deliberately equivocated during its initial announced - and what's worse, nobody in the media has called the company out.
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17 comments:
and so it goes....
People cant live in Wicomico county ,I was born and raise wages are low taxes are high and housing is out of this world
Yup, I had a "discussion" with some rube on a FB political page about how I would believe it when I see it - when all the companies were touting raises.
Looks like I won the debate with even more facts.
...yep, Kiosk University is slowly underway from the south going north!
After the announcement I informed the employees at the Mt Hermon Rd store that although they deserved a raise that they wouldn't get it. Since I already knew they wouldn't get an hourly increase I gave them more hours by leaving this message on the bathroom wall.
McDonalds is NOT supposed to be a bill-paying job!
I heard that woman from the lawless teachers union bitching on PAC 14 at the county council meeting that many teachers have to work 2 and 3 jobs to make ends meet. I think I heard a lie!
It was all kabookie theater.
McDonald's can do like Walmart does for its employees, when the holidays are coming up, walmart puts out boxes for customers to donate food, so their employees can have a good Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
it's called an education, get one! as for the teachers working second jobs, some do, during the summer when they are off! I don't have that problem since I don't get the summers off!
You would think McDonalds is holding their employees in chains and forcing them to work. Duh, if you don't like the terms of employment, including salary, you are certainly free to leave and find another job.
There are self-help videos on you-tube. Build that self esteem to do more than being a burger flipper!
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Welcome to the new economy - fake economy.
McDonald's is now the only job for many many adults.
It is all they can find.
Don't complain that they don't take a job - this is the job they take.
the only one they can find.
Ditto for working at Burger King, Wawa, Royal Farm, Boscov's, so on.
They all pay the same.
They are slowly replacing their employees with illegals.
I have to say, McDonalds is a job for a teenager to make gas money and such. It is not for you to support a family. If that is your goal then go towards management. McDonalds and chick fila have excellent management programs. But you can’t seriously expect to support yourself as an adult flipping burgers.
"I can't pay my bills."
So what? They knew what the job paid when they applied and accepted the job offer. You can't start a job anywhere, and then expect the employer to pay you more because you can't pay your bills on what the job pays. Simple. Get another job to go with your part-time McDonald's job, or go see if anyone will pay you more. But that's not likely if you only have the skills to make assembly line sandwiches and ask if a customer wants fries with their order. These snowflakes, with their welfare babies, living in section 8 housing, always think they are somehow "worth" more money, when in fact, they aren't even worth what they are being paid. They wouldn't pay their bills even if they got more money. Needless to say, they aren't looking for more money to pay bills with. Everybody wants more money, even rich people. Most of us will find a way to "earn" it, and not think we can demand it once we start a job.
April 4, 2018 at 5:13 PM
It is all they can find.
It is all they can find, for a reason. They are unskilled labor, without any post secondary education. They have to change that dynamic, if they want a better job. With all the training programs and educational benefits available, there is no excuse for anyone not bettering themselves and their earning potential. Only lazy, uneducated, and unmotivated people would demand more pay for nothing on their part. They are the LAST people I would give a raise to.
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