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iww-gnv · 2 months
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California fast-food workers are forming a unique kind of union
Lizzet Aguilar has worked at a McDonald’s in Los Angeles for 17 years. She’s never once been given a paid day off. She’s never taken a vacation. When her husband or nine-year-old son get sick and need her to care for them—or if she gets sick herself—she has to call out and lose a day’s pay. “Es difícil,” she says: It’s difficult. Her wages are already low. She makes $16.78 per hour. “Estamos luchando día a día. Es difícil vivir en California,” says Aguilar: We live day to day. It’s difficult to live in California. But for many years she was afraid to speak up and join the Fight for 15, a national movement to raise the minimum wage that started with fast-food workers and has since seen 14 states and Washington, D.C., raise their minimum wages to $15 an hour, increasing pay for 26 million workers.   Then the pandemic hit and Aguilar’s boss didn’t give workers any hand sanitizer, gloves, or even masks. Six coworkers got COVID-19. “Ese me puso a decir, ‘Basta,’” she recalls: It pushed her to say, Enough. She got involved to protect herself and her family.  Now Aguilar will be part of the next evolution in the Fight for 15 movement: She and her coworkers will announce on February 9 that they are forming the California Fast Food Workers Union, which will be part of SEIU. Hundreds of workers from different fast-food companies will gather in Los Angeles to sign union cards. It’s time, Aguilar and her coworkers decided, to become more formal members of a union and pay dues. It’s a fresh start, she says, on the road toward securing bigger gains.
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mysharona1987 · 2 years
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bee-b33p · 17 days
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Bro get out
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gwydionmisha · 8 months
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saywhat-politics · 1 year
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The FAST Recovery Act could raise minimum wage for California fast food workers to $22 an hour.
A coalition led by chains like McDonald's have secured a referendum vote in November 2024. 
This week, a top McDonald's exec slammed lawmakers for passing the law in an open letter. 
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zanethenindroid · 1 year
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Would you like fries with that? 🍟
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kimbertmusings · 6 months
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It was late last night after I picked my kid up from work, but he was hangry and I have no patience at all, so we stopped at the local Burger King drive through.
Now I feel compelled to tell you all that this Burger King is infamous in our small rural community for being the most poorly run Burger Kings in the history of Burger King. They’ve had days where they didn’t have lettuce or large size cups or (you will not believe this) burger meat. It only stays on business because it is literally the only option we have for purchased cooked food after 7pm.
We order the 2-for-$5 Whopper Jr thingie, and a medium Sprite to share. We get to the window, and my kiddo asks the person at the window how their night is going.
The cashier let out a heavy sigh, and said “not well, actually. I took a counterfeit $100 yesterday by accident.”
I puffed up a little and said “DO NOT let them make you feel bad about this. You are not a banker!”
She nodded, and we started chatting (the cooks at this Burger King are also very very slow) and it came out that she had been a manager for 8.5 months, making minimum wage. “Yeah, if I could get away with stealing from this place, I would in heartbeat.”
Think about that. A manager making minimum wage. All the responsibility and no extra money?! And that’s when it hit me. They “guaranteed hours”. That’s such bullshit.
“Sure you can have more hours, but you have to take on scheduling and be a key carrier and run the shifts.”
This is BULLSHIT, and wouldn’t have been tolerated even five years ago.
Yeah, it would have been a shit raise, like a quarter an hour, but it still would’ve been a raise to reflect additional responsibilities.
So anyway, my kid and I assured her that she was a good person and her job and company sucked, then next thing you know we’re handed a bag with six different giant burgers and chicken sandwiches with a wink and wished a good night.
So yeah, she did mean it when she said she’d steal from that place in a heartbeat and honestly good for her.
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r0semultiverse · 1 year
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New ad saying McDonalds now has cashierless places they’re rolling out
Me: HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE
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cillianwilder · 2 months
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chaosconduit · 1 year
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To the people who come into fast food restaurants and grap like fifteen straws for your single drink. WHY!?!
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iww-gnv · 6 months
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A new law in California will raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour next year, an acknowledgment from the state’s Democratic leaders that most of the often overlooked workforce are the primary earners for their low-income households. When it takes effect on April 1, fast food workers in California will have the highest guaranteed base salary in the industry. The state’s minimum wage for all other workers — $15.50 per hour — is already among the highest in the United States. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the law Thursday amid a throng of cheering workers and labor leaders at an event in Los Angeles. Newsom dismissed the popular view that fast food jobs are meant for teenagers to have their first experience in the workforce. “That’s a romanticized version of a world that doesn’t exist,” Newsom said. “We have the opportunity to reward that contribution, reward that sacrifice and stabilize an industry.”
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mysharona1987 · 2 years
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lazy-and-bitter · 8 months
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gwydionmisha · 9 months
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I support the strike.
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hopefulistic · 1 year
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okay, so a hypothetical corporate workforce might call me a "job hopper". Honestly they should be thanking me! Just a couple months ago, I got a p*do fired, and then this week I get to solve the mystery of "who stole the deposit money" 😌 I'm collecting work drama like they're side quests, dont @ me
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flightlessosprey · 1 year
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Working a fast food job is kind of like being an npc
People treat you like shit
If you work cash you just stand there until someone interacts with you
You have specific lines of dialogue that you say whenever someone interacts with you
And you’re character design is bland at best
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