What? And they’re not happy just to have a job?Thousands of fast-food and retail workers are set to go on strike across the United States Thursday to push for a $15 hourly wage, after a similar action last month bolstered confidence but not pay, organizers said.
"If you work in a fast-food or retail store anywhere in the country, we urge you to join our growing movement," striker Terrance Wise said in a news release earlier this month.
Wise, 34, is a Kansas City-based father of three who says he earns $9.30 an hour at Burger King, where he has worked for eight years.
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The more than 4 million fast-food workers in the United States made an average annual wage of $18,130 in 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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I heard on NPR this morning that the average age for a fast food worker these days is 29.
And, BTW, if you have an hour, watch this talk by Black Agenda Report editor Glen Ford regarding political economics. If you have only a half hour, start in at about 30 minutes. He explains his belief that America’s imperialism is on the way out simply due to the realities of the economic political laws by which an economy based on finance rather than industry is governed. Very interesting, and perhaps hopeful, even though it doesn’t offer a rosy economic outlook for us. If you’ve got the hour, he lays out some nice history in the first half.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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