Ten years into the Fight for $15, fast-food workers still fighting for a living wage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- In Part 2 of “Insecurity,” we meet Eshawney, a fast-food worker who joins the wave of worker uprisings that sweeping the country during the pandemic.
In partnership with The Economic Hardship Reporting Project
Watch the full series at theintercept.com
Why do people choose to have children while already working low wage jobs?
Like you have to take some accountability.
try not being grateful while you buy your food
It will always be this way. It's a cornerstone belief of some cultures. If you wait until you can afford a baby, you'll never have one, so just have it.... It's a line I've overheard many times, and seen the evidence of exponentially more.
$15 would've covered the cost of living maybe 20 years ago.
Was a rough wage 20 years ago. Remember that at that pay grade, there's no minimums or OT. they cut you at 35 hours tops, and some weeks give you half that.
I haven't worked a minimum wage job since I was teenager. I admire the fight, my problem is $15 isn't enough. The EPI states that minimum wage should be closer to $25.
Lmao youre not suppose to afford a living off of flipping patties. Sorry.
You're economically illiterate ffs
Do yk how inflation works.. you can’t just raise the minimum wage without having detrimental effects on small businesses and the economy. I’m nyc where they’ve already raised minimum wage to $15 75% of small businesses had to cut hours and 36% had to fire staff or close. Losing small businesses and higher rates of unemployment will slowly crash the economy
@@colinkiser243 Inflations, crashes, and unemployment can occur without inflation though. The Great Recession didn’t happen because minimum wage went up. If small businesses can’t pay the wage expense then they won’t operate.
Want more money?
Get more skills.
What do you call someone with skills worth less than the minimum wage?
Unemployed.
When the US started fighting for a $15 minimum wage the Minimum wage in Australia was $18 a hour now the minimum wage is Australia is $21.38 per hour and the US still hasnt got its raise.
In Australia everyone has a minimum of 4 weeks paid leave every year. Shiftworkers 5 weeks. Intense stressfull work 6 weeks.
10 days minimum sick leave unused sick leave stacks and can be used any time or cashed out when you change jobs or retire.
Your employer is responsible for its workers so if you get real sick and have a doctors certificate you get more paid sick days than the 10 minimum.
If you have an injury your employee has to work around it to keep you employed light dutties different role ect. If the illness will last more than 3 months the Government pays your wage at a reduced amount.
You also have the right to paid Carers leave : An employee may have to take time off to care for an immediate family or household member who is sick or injured or help during a family emergency. This is known as carer's leave.
3 months paid maternity leave and 2 weeks for the secondary parent. Which changes to 6 months paid maternity leave and 1 month for the secondary parent in 2025.
These are the minimum.
You forgot to mention that that $21.38 AUD is only $14.55 USD….oh and that Australia has a much higher average cost of living than the US. Did those just slip your mind?
@@iamcosma7065
Before the Australian reserve bank deliberately lowered the value of the Australia dollar we still had a higher wage than the US.
The average cost of living in Australia ($1947) is 8% less expensive than in the United States ($2112).
Australians have a higher standard of living than the US. And Australians live longer than Americans.
Medicare for all and Australians have government funded child care.
Seattle pays $18 an hour while the whole of Seattle is paying about $15. I'm telling you that this is not enough, and it affects small businesses that either have to cut hours or let people go or move to a state with a lower minimum wage.
We’ll finally get “$15” when it’s worth $7.25 unfortunately.
That’s the intention
Maybe because you can’t artificially increase the cost of labor? The market will always balance out.
@@iamcosma7065”can’t”, “artificially”, “the market”, “always”, “balance.”
@Blaire Sovereign No I act as though it’s dictated by human behavior. People are likely to by less of something the more expensive it is. Is that not true?
@Blaire Sovereign They are right now. There is competition for labor and workers are paid market value for their labor. It’s impossible to underpay someone for their labor.
Where’s the baby daddy?
Dude, youll be paid 25$ an hour but they will fire you because the restaurent is empty…
Thanks Ray!
1. While I want a mix of single payer health coverage and federally qualified hospitals/clinics, I also observe that, at present, low wage workers are subsidized by the government on this.
2. Rents are skyrocketing.
We have got to do something, probably multiple things, to make sure there's affordable housing for everyone.
As it is? We want people to work in cities, but we refuse to pay them enough to stay securely housed in those same cities!
...20% of people or so need low-income housing of some sort, 20% of our rental units should be available on a sliding scale, based on income.
That probably means some government-owned buildings, and requiring 20% of all large apartment buildings to be sliding scale rentals.
Based on some simple math anything under 18.50 per person isnt livable and 36 an hour is what a couple would make together .. just enough to scratch by .
We don't need a fixed minimum wage. We need a federal requirement that sets minimum wage based on the regional cost of living and automatically adjusted annually for inflation.
America does it by state
@What the Chell Unfortunately that isn't nuanced enough. The cost of living in Austin Texas is a whole lit different than Brownsville.
Nevada just voted to raise the starvation wage to $12/hour. Sounds like a step in the right direction, until you read the entire Proposition. The raise goes into effect 20 months from now! How sneaky is that? x
7-9% inflation due primarily to price gouging and skyrocketing corporate profits, yeah almost negligible increase in 20 months.
30$/hr with full social assurance. End the foreign policy that forces prices in US to be so high so that the third world can stay poor. Then Abolish currency by universalizing prices and decommodification globally.
I'm sure if there was less regulations, more people could start businesses, creating more job opportunities. Hopefully better job opportunities to help lift the poor out of poverty. Government just gets in the way of progress.
Only ten years? It honestly feels longer.
Not to mention the minimum wage should be well about $15 dollars.
Why doesn't the kid's dad help out? That's the real problem here. Not min wage.
He’s helping out by paying child support. Highly unlikely she was married beforehand. Society isn’t setup for single individuals or single mothers. Society is setup for marriage, because there’s no magical retirement at the age of 65.
The real problem is having kids while working these type of jobs.
Wake me when wage increases correspond with CPI / inflation.
* Macdonalds just opened its first fully automated store in USA.... 😉
like thats a threat? No McDonalds???...lol..who cares
@n2cable 🤔🤣 LOL! You're adorable!!!
Tens of millions of workers who want jobs at Macdonalds care. 😵💫😬
*Think, then write. 🤐😉
Most jobs are going to be filled by robots: What will people do then??
Lots of videos of Japan has robots in fast food places
Should be $25
This is the comment I was looking for!
Ludicrous. It should be $0.
@@iamcosma7065 based and purplepilled
families need community.
executives shouldn't earn more than entry level workers. or there should be some ratio limit of executive pay and entry level/ working class pay.
workers should have legal rights to make executive decisions in the company.
Good, and they should raise the prices on crap food so people eat healthier. It.should be a rare treat with well paid workers that give stellar service. Imagine going to your favorite fast food joint once a month and the service and food are perfect...them again it would be hard to go only once a month if those french fries have the perfect texture, taste, temperature.😢
To ramble on more, grocery store workers should be paid decent as they are necessary workers for people that don't have access to a farm or can hunt their own food. Most people would say they are more important than lawyers, doctors, and policemen.
The fight for fifteen is just the start, or should be anyway. I get paid a bit over $20 an hour and get fifteen to twenty five hours of OT a week at a bit over thirty. My wife is currently looking for work and with one source of income, even a relatively good one, we are paycheck to paycheck. I used to work minimum wage jobs before being fortunate enough to get this one. You just can’t make a living on, say, $10 an hour or even a bit more.
Why the hell would she have a kid if she can't even support herself?
@Blaire Sovereign Exactly!
@Blaire Sovereign she could use protection.
@Vesta _The_Lesser protection is free if you’re low income & there’s also adoption.
Sorry absolutely no excuses for having a child in this circumstance.
Are you insinuating that $15 is a livable wage
The minimum wage should be $25 in America.
When the minimum gets to $25 the gallon of milk will cost $12 so this is getting from bad to worst for normal people
Economy classes should be mandatory
@@tinleo333 not how it works but I get the inclination.
@johnfullmer1474 that's exactly how it works
15 bucks an hour for these whiny kids to put fries upside down in a bag, play on their phones, and take as many smoke breaks as they want? Hell it ain't even worth 7 an hour. You want to get out of poverty so bad, then go to school and get a degree or learn a trade. There's so many opportunities out there, take them.
You mean the things that require no burden of cost? Because everyone can have a home to live in, and food while they drop everything and go to a 4 year commitment that places more debt onto them?
@nekohakuro9490 yet they can apply for grants and scholarships, some companies such as McDonald's or Walmart do offer tuition assistance for those wanting to go back. They can also consider signing up for the military and qualify for the GI bill.
@@engineer40c89 Unfortunately in praxis (in the US at least) the majority of franchises will often times make your hours at max 39, so you won't reach full time status, and even if one was given tuition that'll add on extra hours to limit the amount of classes the worker can feasibly do within a time period.
sorry but MINIUM SKILLS = MINIUM WAGE ... i wish they would raise it but even if they do , prices of everything will be raised so no matter what it'll never be enough . You need to get some kind of education or trade.
This is a myth and an annoying talking point people parrot that’s been disproven by multiple studies. An increase in the minimum wage may lead to a small increase in prices but it will be far less than the increase in wages for three reasons: 1. Labor is only part of the cost of producing goods and services. 2. A higher wage reduces turnover and training costs for businesses which saves them money. 3. A higher wage improves worker morale and productivity, which also saves them money.
@johnfullmer1474 Not a myth its basic economics.
Hope they NEVER get it. I like my super cheap fast food. If they don’t want to work for the market value they can work elsewhere.
1940-1980 Median wage growth rose 260%.
1981-2020 Median wage growth rose 5.4%.
Tell that to the next person who complains about "liberal, socialist agendas."
So what? In the 80s the workforce doubled when women were expected to go to work. You don’t think doubling the workforce had an impact on wage growth?
A lovely bit of propaganda.
They need to unionize
Let me tell you something hunny $15 is not a living wage also but it’s a start