Again, fast food employment was meant for part-time. Part-time for after school, college students, etc. It wasn’t meant to be a sustainable wage. You completely missed the part how these jobs are disappearing and in their place a faceless cold tablet is greeting you as you sit at your table. I hate self-check out in the groceries. Longer lines and after the ordeal of shopping I don’t want to scan & bag, plus I can’t help but think of another job lost.
If this demand for $15.00 plus continues you will see more automation. I repeat, 90% of the fast food places are franchised to small business people, therefore they will cut hours and/or people. At one time grocery stores were full time with benefits. Since the government mandate of wages and healthcare, hours have been cut back to no more than 32 hours…hence no benefits. I’m fully aware of this as I went to school with a gal who worked over 30 years for the same grocery. She was the only one who had full time and benefits. She was grandfathered into the old way. My 2 grandkids worked for the same grocery after graduation for over 10 years, but weren’t permitted to work over 32 hours.
There was a time when government kept it’s nose out of private businesses which brought out competition to get the best workers. If I didn’t like what I was making per hour I could go down the street for an extra 50 cents per hr. I worked for a huge company where the employees enjoyed working. The company was non-union, but it was competitive by keeping pace with the union companies. My company held onto it’s employees and it wasn’t due to government mandates.
I repeat “no part-time hamburger flipper” deserves $15 an hour. Read my link in order to understand the higher wage hamburger flipper would make the same as some entry level jobs which calls for a degree.
Where have all the textile mills gone to? China! At one time this country was self sustaining, but no longer. Parts for equipment are made overseas.
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Rorikon (17855)
3 years ago
Time's change. Now you got non-college people filling those roles so part-time become full time. As for kiosks and self-checkout, I have gotten used to doing my own checking out. We sacrificed so much in the name of convenience we forgot what work was really like. The fun thing is you can secretly take food out without them noticing since there is only 1-2 staff around the 20+ self-checkouts side by side :p. I think they'll keep a few around (staff checkouts) for those that buy food in the $200+ range and have 1-2 large carts. The only large line up is at the staff checkout since that's where the heavy shoppers go. Self-checkouts barely to light lineups.
Automation was always the end game as tech advances. Wouldn't matter if wages increased when you can pay no wage, period (hence why there should be a tax on machines that replace workers). God dammit I was (fake) hitting on a grandma (no offense intended), lol.
Well, some go for best workers based on skill, others go for best workers on efficiency at the cheapest cost.
I read your link but it doesn't confine to the times we're in. I we take the base wage of the 1960's or whatever and adjust to inflation it would be around that number. You can't keep paying such low wages when everything else is just getting more expensive. Maybe that's why Biden wants to keep shuffling low skilled workers for these positions to be filled.
Yep, because of capitalist greed (cronyism). Profits is the end means of production. We'll eventually need a UBI when there are too many jobless and all low skill work is done by AI machines.
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