http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5623910.html
Short:
At a convention in Chicago fast-food workers from across the country compared their struggle (for $15/hour) to the civil rights movement. They voted to "escalate" their fight to civil disobedience. (What, exactly, are strikes considered?) They also unveiled new shirts with slogans...one saying "Fight For $15" and the other saying "We Are Worth More."
The convention, shirts, and most of the support has been funded by Unions.
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Personal Opinion:
Let's take the emotional appeal out of this and consider it logically.
1. If a fast-food worker is "worth more," then wouldn't they have the skill-set needed to get a better job?
2. And how many fast-food workers are single-parent adults? Because minors are restricted in the work they can do. And, really, if you aren't even allowed to work most of the equipment then you are NOT worth more.
3. All businesses have "overhead." This debate applies directly to something called "labor costs." Businesses have a set amount of money to use for their labor costs. If you more than double the Federal minimum wage people WILL lose their jobs. Raising the minimum wage does not magically raise the amount of money available to cover labor costs.
4. Why go to college? Why bother in High School? Just put in the minimum amount of work, barely skate by, and don't worry...because you can work for fast-food and make a "livable wage." Remember that the only job requirements needed to work in fast food is that you have hands and half of a brain. Sure, some might have an age restriction of 18...again, because of Federal regulations on what minors can and can't do. But we're not talking about overly difficult work to get.
5. Finally...if we're going to raise the minimum wage, money paid to people with the lowest possible skill-set, to $15/hour, what will we pay skilled laborers? What will the electricians, plumbers, ect be making? Obviously if we decide that someone with no marketable skills is "worth more," then aren't the people who learned valuable skills worth more as well?