FAST FOOD WORKERS STRIKE - 99 of Staff Get 7.25 Per Hour. McDonalds CEO Makes 13 MILLION Per YearFAS

SUBSCRIBE for more on 99 / POVERTY / JOBLESS in AMERICA / HUMANITY / RICH vs POOR / ELITE AGENDA FAST FOOD WORKERS STRIKE - 99 of Staff Get 7.25 Per Hour. McDonalds CEO Makes 13 MILLION Per Year Last month, we discussed McDonalds and Wal-Mart as Americas biggest welfare queens. As it turns out, both giants are the beneficiaries of a surprising amount of federal aid: Their employees receive an inordinate amount of Medicaid, food stamps and other public assistance. This allows them to maintain very low wages, and keep profits relatively robust. We begin with a little minimum wage background: In the U.S., it is currently pegged at 7.25 an hour. The law mandating these wages began post-depression in 1938 at 25 cents an hour. (New Zealand beat us by 40 years). Individual states have the option to mandate a higher minimum wage, and about half of them do, with Washington State requiring the highest pay at 9.19/hour. Among developed economies, Australia and Luxembourg have the highest minimum wages (15.75 and 14.21 respectively), while the other end of the scale includes Korea (3.90), Poland (2.69) and Hungary (2.24), according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The U.S. sits in the middle of the range. Roberts, who is now thirty-eight years old and working at a K.F.C. in Oakland, is slightly stout, with hair done up in braids. She is quick to smile, and she has a matter-of-fact attitude about her circumstances. Tacked to the wall above her stove is a Bob Marley poster with the quote One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Around mid-morning, after Thomas, now fifteen, has headed off to school, Roberts walks to the K.F.C. on Telegraph Avenue. She earns eight dollars an hour as a cashier, and she typically works five- or six-hour shifts. I pack orders, take orders. I clean, take out the garbage. I deal with belligerent people, disrespectful people, I deal with a lot of people who do drugs—so Im basically a security guard, too, she told me. During a ten-minute lunch break, she wolfs down free fried chicken. In the early evening she walks home to her apartment, where, when she has food in her small refrigerator, she prepares dinner. Fast-food restaurant workers across the US are staging a 24-hour strike in protest against low wages. Walkouts were reported in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, and also Detroit, Michigan Raleigh, North Carolina and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Organisers hoped workers in as many as 100 cities will participate in what is the latest in a series of such actions. Unions want a 15-an-hour (9.19) federal minimum wage. The current one, set in 2009, is 7.25 per hour. President Barack Obama, who has backed a Senate measure to increase the minimum to 10.10, specifically mentioned fast-food workers who work their tails off and are still living at or barely above poverty, in an economic policy speech on Wednesday. We cant survive His Democratic allies, who control the upper chamber of Congress, have said a vote on the matter could be held this month. But even if it passes the Senate, it is not clear if it would be approved by the Republican-led House of Representatives. mcdonalds fast food boss salary minimum wage student family billions profit promise college student company ceo poverty welfare survive survival food service serve rich poor occupy wall street 2013 2014 truth income economy poverty line wealthy work job jobs employment unemployment strike protest increase rights class system 3rd world society united states usa america recovery retail shopping employment nyc bills dream american dream video media news agenda nwo gerald celente trends in the news gold silver bitcoin litecoin savings freedom anonymous anger david icke lindsey williams global currency reset glenn beck we are change bilderberg illuminati agenda elite 2013 is the year many Americans discovered the crisis of the working poor. It turns out its also the crisis of the welfare poor. Thats tough for us: Americans notoriously hate welfare, unless its called something else and/or benefits us personally. We think its for slackers and moochers and people who wont pull their weight. So were not sure how to handle the fact that a quarter of people who have jobs today make so little money that they also receive some form of public assistance, or welfare -- a proportion thats much higher in some of the fastest growing sectors of the workforce. Or that 60 percent of able-bodied adult food-stamp recipients are employed. Fully 52 percent of fast-food workers families receive public assistance -- most of it coming from Medicaid, food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit — to the tune of 7 billion annually, according to new research from the University of California-Berkeleys Labor Center and the University of Illinois.SUBSCRIBE for more on 99 / POVERTY / JOBLESS in AMERICA / HUMANITY / RICH vs POOR / ELITE AGENDA FAST FOOD WORKERS STRIKE