My Laugh Out Loud Moment For Today

[rubato]

You made a typically stupid comment and I changed the subject to something more pleasant and meaningful.

The E. Bay has a lot of problems and a large part is due to people like you who whinge about how its all someone else's fault.

Get off your ass and do something useful for a change.


yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

You made a comment and I bragged about something irrelevant.

Fixed.

[dales]

Oh that's it.

I believe the subject of the post was restaurant workers striking in Detroit Michigan.

Where did the subject of myself complaining about the East Bay (which I didn't - I was commenting about where I live).

Anyone with a reading comphrehension index beyond the 5th grade would have realized that.

Oh, that's in an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THREAD - - - -dumbass.

Right here, Fool!............viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9198

[Gob]

But, but, but...he's a scientist, honest....

[rubato]

Get off both your asses and do something useful for a change.

If you can.

yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

We were My wife was given a gift certificate to Chez Panisse which we she will use to buy me a meal I couldn't possibly afford on my chump change part time income as soon as they re-open.

That's what I get when I run that through The Truth-O-Meter...

[dales]

Get off both your asses and do something useful for a change.

If you can.

yrs,
rubato

Well, speaking for myself.

Being a habitual drunkard and an ex-con I've got nothing to brag about like the dear esteemed fellow - - rubato.

I feel so ashamed.

[Long Run]

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Errmmmmm hello? People live here? Why?

We subsidize them in order to provide a warning to Canadians to stay away.

[rubato]

Detroit has been in a continual economic decline driven by population loss for > 40 years. A story about minimum wage in Detroit is wholly and utterly meaningless in every possible way. Sober up and smell the coffee.

You've been living in a storm drain for the past 4 decades?




yrs,
rubato

[Joe Guy]

Get off both your asses and do something useful for a change.

If you can.

Dales, do you have two asses?

[dales]

Detroit has been in a continual economic decline driven by population loss for > 40 years. A story about minimum wage in Detroit is wholly and utterly meaningless in every possible way. Sober up and smell the coffee.

You've been living in a storm drain for the past 4 decades?




yrs,
rubato

Well you best tell the people who reported the story, or have they resided in a storm drain as well?

[dales]

A story about minimum wage in Detroit is wholly and utterly meaningless in every possible way.

Here's a qwik search:

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News for detroit fast food workers union


Yahoo! News

Detroit Fast Food Strike Employees Gather At Protest To Demand Unions And A $15 Per Hour Wage - Huffington Post

Huffington Post ‎- 22 hours ago

Organizers with the campaign, which is called D15, estimate there are about 53,000 fast food workers in the Detroit Metro area. They say that's ...



Fast Food Strike: Detroit Walkouts, Protests Continue National Movement For Higher Wages, Union - Huffington Post


Huffington Post‎ - 1 day ago


Fast-food workers in Detroit joining a growing wave of walkouts over wages


Washington Post‎ - 1 day ago

Fast Food Strike: Detroit Walkouts, Protests Continue National ...



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../fast- ... g-wage...‎


1 day ago – Workers at a Detroit McDonald's walked off the job early Friday ... wage many fast food industry workers are paid -- and the right to form a union ...


Fast-food workers in Detroit walk off job, disrupt business - Yahoo ...



news.yahoo.com/fast-food-workers-detroit-walk-off-job-disrupt-233240...‎

1 day ago – The Detroit action was put together by the Michigan Workers Organizing Committee, an independent union of fast-food workers, that is ...


Detroit Fast Food Workers' Strike Shuts Down Locations - AFL-CIO



http://www.aflcio.org › AFL-CIO Now › Political Action/Legislation‎





1 day ago – Fast food workers at more than 60 restaurants in Detroit walked off the ... At issue is workers' right to form a union and an increase in base pay ...


Fast-food workers stage walkouts over wages - USA Today



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /2152603/‎





7 hours ago – Blackman wears a button for the proposed Fast Food Workers Union while she waits in line for barbecue at Belle Isle in Detroit on Friday, May ...


Largest fast food strike yet as workers walk out in Michigan — MSNBC






tv.msnbc.com/.../detroit-experiences-what-may-be-largest-fast-f...‎







by Ned Resnikoff - in 439 Google+ circles1 day ago – As in other fast food strikes, Detroit workers are demanding the right to form a union and that their base pay be raised to $15 an hour. But this ...



Detroit Fast Food Workers Join Strike Wave | Labor Notes



http://www.labornotes.org/2013/05/detro ... rike-wave‎






1 day ago – “Tell the whole world, this is union territory!” chanted the crowd outside a Detroit Popeye's, as fast-food strikes spread to a fourth city today.


Fast Food Strike Wave Spreads to Detroit | The Nation






http://www.thenation.com › Blogs › Josh Eidelson‎







by Josh Eidelson - in 164 Google+ circles2 days ago – Today's non-union fast food walkout in Detroit follows similar actions in New ... Hundreds of Detroit fast food workers plan to walk off the job ...



Fast-food workers in Detroit joining a growing wave of walkouts over ...



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1 day ago – Hundreds of fast-food workers in Detroit are poised to walk off their jobs ... Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, ...


The 'Fight for 15' Grows: Fast Food Worker Strike Hits Detroit ...

[Crackpot]

Detroit has been in a continual economic decline driven by population loss for > 40 years. A story about minimum wage in Detroit is wholly and utterly meaningless in every possible way. Sober up and smell the coffee.

You've been living in a storm drain for the past 4 decades?




yrs,
rubato

Another post revealing just how much rubato really cares about those less fortunate than himself (and these people even reliably vote democratic)

[Lord Jim]

It's like the answer Strop gave when I asked rube why he hates poor people:

Why should they be left out?

Rube basically has nothing but cold hearted contempt and scorn for just about everyone; especially those he wrongly considers inferior to him, (which again is just about everyone.)

The one exception to this appears to be Nobel prize winners. And with those he goes to the opposite extreme and ascribes to them magical powers of cor-rectitude, and has the simple minded belief that being accomplished in one area somehow makes them fonts of knowledge all fields.

[dales]

This is rich.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2002

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to Jimmy Carter, for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.

Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah......etc.

[dgs49]

A couple of thoughts on the original post:

This is not protected activity, and all of these employees could be summarily fired for cause. It is not even arguably related to a movement to "organize." Ironically, SEIU and other communist front organizations have no interest in "organizing" fast food workers because even in the best case scenario they can't pay substantial union dues relative to the cost of organizing them. So much for their concern for the "working man."

I am always befuddled by people who work in such circumstances for years and years (mainly women), with no significant improvement in their position. If they are not CONSTANTLY looking for a better job, they are idiots. If they can't find something better after years of effort, it is truly a puzzlement. Even when I was working as a security guard in college, I found jobs that paid well-above minimum wage, with virtually unlimited overtime.

But seriously, folks, why not try the Progressive Solution? Get the City Council in Detroit to pass a localized MW law. Say, $15.00 until age 21, then $20/hr. Wouldn't this ensure prosperity for all? If not, why not?

[dales]

You're wrong about the SEIU...................dgs.

My sis is represented by these parasites, she makes $11/hr.

She works in the health industry.

They take their cut each and every month.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Those workers face high hurdles in their fight for better pay.

The job itself is "low skill". Are employers supposed to pay more for low skill jobs than they are worth?

Low-wage, low-skill workers lack political clout and face significantly higher unemployment than college graduates.

But of course, especially when many college grads are "under employed".

Then we have

Margaret Neal, 52, said frustration with the low wage she earns after more than a decade working at a McDonald's in Detroit prompted her to join Friday's protests.

Asked about her pay, Neal said: "You don't even want to know, I've been there 15 years. I'm still making $8.83 (an hour). That's not right."

Neal, who works full-time, says her bosses have told her she is "maxed out" at her current wage and ineligible for an increase.

To which McDonalds says:

The company said in a statement that McDonald's employees are paid competitive wages, have access to a range of benefits and opportunities for training and career advancement.

The key words are "have access to". Now if one does not avail themselves of that access, then one can only blame themselves.
My dad told me early on in my employment career (I think it was my dad),"if all you ever do is your job, then that's all you will ever do".

[Crackpot]

Access is a relative term. If you have the opportunity for advancement at another location but your job doesn't grant you the means to travel to that location how is that access?

Detroit has a shitty public transportation system made worse by the former mayor and the current financial crisis

[dales]

Who says people have to live in Detroit?

People with any sense of survival left years ago.