McStrike

[Hugh Gains]

McDonalds workers set to strike for better working conditions and £10 an hour.

Thoughts on the wise SMB?

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[Frijj]

It will fail. The consumer desire for McDonald's and the fear of losing jobs means the strike has too much against it.

They can just install more automated tills.

 

[Hammer]

Do the automated tills cook the food too?

 

[Frijj]

Do the automated tills cook the food too?

No, but there's an endless supply of young people who'll do that job if others strike.

 

[FannyByTheGaslight]

£10 an hour for working in McDonalds FFS

 

[Moyes and the Boys]

It will fail. The consumer desire for McDonald's and the fear of losing jobs means the strike has too much against it.

They can just install more automated tills.

Ultimately this, it'll be the undoing of them...

 

[Frijj]

£10 an hour for working in McDonalds FFS

By 2020 the living wage will be £9.

£10 an hour is only £19,240 a year pre-tax full-time.

That's not a lot of money at all. I reckon the vast majority of their minimum wage staff are part-time too.

 

[safc1981]

I'd rather an automated till than some numpty who constantly knacks up my order

 

[monkeytassle]

By 2020 the living wage will be £9.

£10 an hour is only £19,240 a year pre-tax full-time.

That's not a lot of money at all. I reckon the vast majority of their minimum wage staff are part-time too.

Here's a hypothetical question. Can you get by on that wage? Not you, a plural you.

 

[sima-hebburn]

its only 2 at mo

McDonald’s Corp. workers at two restaurants in England have voted in favor of a strike, in what would be the first industrial action by staff of the American fast-food chain in the U.K.

Employees at one site in Crayford, near London, and a second in Cambridgeshire were balloted following a dispute over the use of zero-hour contracts and the company’s handling of internal grievances.

“Workers have found themselves living on low wages -- with no guarantee of hours,” the Bakers’, Food and Allied Workers Union said in a statement after the ballot on Friday. “This has been viewed by some as punishment for joining a union,” it said, adding that a strike is planned for later this year.



Staff are now seeking a pay rise to 10 pounds an hour ($12.89), with workers currently awarded the minimum wage of 7.50 pounds for staff aged 25 and over, BFAWU President Ian Hodson said by phone.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

Here's a hypothetical question. Can you get by on that wage? Not you, a plural you.

Depends where you live

The north east? Absolutely

 

[monkeytassle]

Depends where you live

The north east? Absolutely

Probably not Crayford tbf

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

Probably not Crayford tbf

Maybe not. But I always wonder where people who work in Pret in central London actually live

 

[monkeytassle]

Maybe not. But I always wonder where people who work in Pret in central London actually live

East London. Probably in a big house share. Like I did when I earned that.

 

[FannyByTheGaslight]

By 2020 the living wage will be £9.

£10 an hour is only £19,240 a year pre-tax full-time.

That's not a lot of money at all. I reckon the vast majority of their minimum wage staff are part-time too.

unskilled workers are catching the salaries of skilled workers, and that is not an incentive for people to stick in and get a good job!

 

[becs]

Here's a hypothetical question. Can you get by on that wage? Not you, a plural you.

I could live on that but I'm thrifty and not a shopaholic.

 

[The]

£10 an hour for working at McDonald's. There's bank staff I know not in that and they've got more responsibility.

 

[HABA87]

I'd do a couple shifts a week for that, just for a bit. As long as I got some snap hoyed in.

 

[AlpineExile]

Why is the Scottish Socialist Party commenting on strike action in southern England?

Is it just cos it's been nicknamed a McStrike?

 

[The Archer]

I'd rather an automated till than some numpty who constantly knacks up my order

I hate em me. Used one the other week and had to wait for ages for the food, then they didn't have any donuts so I had to make do with a muffin.