Nearly every time someone suggests raising the minimum wage, some ass always smugly chimes in with “Yeah, but do you want to pay $10 for a McDonald’s cheeseburger? I don’t think so.”
Which is true. Most people would not, in fact, pay $10 for a McDonald’s cheeseburger.
The thing is, this is not something I or anyone else has to ever worry about. Guess why? Because if McDonald’s charged more than anyone was actually willing to pay for a cheeseburger, no one would buy them and they wouldn’t make any money, period.
But, my friends, this is how these corporations hold us hostage.
Think about this for a second. Nike pays its mistreated and abused sweatshop workers in Indonesia about 50 cents an hour, and still rarely charges less than $100 for their sneakers. Often they’re over $300.
Diamonds are technically free, naturally occurring objects, mined by actual slaves, and I’d say diamonds–even blood diamonds–are still pretty damned expensive.
Do you think J. Crew charges less because they use sweatshops ? Have you looked a J. Crew catalog recently?
lowpayisnotok.org
A whopping 52% of fast-food employees’ families are forced to rely on public assistance to put food on the table or see a doctor because you pay them poverty wages. That means every single American is picking up the check for nearly $7 billion in tax dollars a year – while the fast-food industry reaps billions in profits. It’s outrageous and it has to stop. It’s time to pay your workers $15 an hour so they can make ends meet and Americans can stop paying for the hidden costs of poverty wages.
CORPORATE AMERICA is giving workers a cruel choice: your job or your health.
Currently, four out of 10 private-sector workers don’t have a singe day of paid sick leave on the job. And if Corporate America gets its way, that number will only increase, according to a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
In 10 states so far, legislators are pushing through bans on city or county governments providing paid sick leave for workers. The bans, passed in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Wisconsin, are designed to act preemptively, blocking sick leave legislation from even coming to a vote.
… Some 12 percent of workers surveyed said that they or a family member have been fired, suspended or otherwise punished for taking time off for an illness, 16 percent said they’d lost a job, and 14 percent indicated that they were told that they would lose their job if they took time off for a personal or family illness.
Land of the free home of the rich
What really scares me is that they all have significantly cheaper health care AND education, which means Americans not only make they least, they pay the most.
health care yes but I lived in australia for a year prices are much worse over there believe me!
Corporations in the US are making record profits by squeezing their workers, denying the decent wages and benefits.
The are not content being multimillionaires, they want to be billionaires!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPVb7X6mQ4
Just watch!
