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I hear this argument brought up a lot relating to minimum wage at McDonalds. "IF THEY RAISE IT THEY'LL JUST FIRE EVERYONE". Guess what, they already started rep

I hear this argument brought up a lot relating to minimum wage at McDonalds. "IF THEY RAISE IT THEY'LL JUST FIRE EVERYONE". Guess what, they already started replacing cashiers with touch screens. Those 400k would've been replaced by robots whether or not the union was there, all that happened was while those 400k jobs were essential to making GM money, those workers got to have a decent life.

godzillabrennus 7y ago
McDonalds sees the writing on the wall with the minimum wage and living wage debates. They are proactively mitigating future issues with paying more money to employees.
aurizon 7y ago
The biggest problem is wage(with benefits) inequity with the UAW people consuming a total package cost of $65 or so per hour with a large pirtion made up of benefits and pensions and vacations, while the MacDonalds people get $15 plus?? Yet these people do jobs of similar complexity. The MacDonalds guys have to buy the cars the UAW guy makes - but they can not or can only by used ones. The UAW guys can buy all the burgers they want and have $$ left over. There is not such a wide disparity in Germany. In the USA the UAW and Management are bitter enemies, in Germany they have board seats - the UAW refuses these seats, they want a hostile basis, they do not want German style wage committees. These committees often ask for a smaller raise because too big a raise hurts the copmany and makes them pull too far ahead of the lower workers. Economies work best when all the workers can buy the products of each other. It is not surprise that German is the dynamo of europe. France is like a UAW paradise, workers versus management. You can not lay people off in France, so wheh you get more orders there are now new workers hired - you get longer delivery times. France is the drugged hippy of europe. The others, Greece, Spain, Italy etc fill in the middle and a few are at the bottom. All badly managed with greedy unions, except Germany. They vote socialist or communist, yet their socialist workers or communist workers run their countries into deep debt - but not Germany. Think about it.

godzillabrennus 7y ago

McDonalds sees the writing on the wall with the minimum wage and living wage debates. They are proactively mitigating future issues with paying more money to employees.

aurizon 7y ago

The biggest problem is wage(with benefits) inequity with the UAW people consuming a total package cost of $65 or so per hour with a large pirtion made up of benefits and pensions and vacations, while the MacDonalds people get $15 plus?? Yet these people do jobs of similar complexity. The MacDonalds guys have to buy the cars the UAW guy makes - but they can not or can only by used ones. The UAW guys can buy all the burgers they want and have $$ left over. There is not such a wide disparity in Germany. In the USA the UAW and Management are bitter enemies, in Germany they have board seats - the UAW refuses these seats, they want a hostile basis, they do not want German style wage committees. These committees often ask for a smaller raise because too big a raise hurts the copmany and makes them pull too far ahead of the lower workers. Economies work best when all the workers can buy the products of each other. It is not surprise that German is the dynamo of europe. France is like a UAW paradise, workers versus management. You can not lay people off in France, so wheh you get more orders there are now new workers hired - you get longer delivery times. France is the drugged hippy of europe. The others, Greece, Spain, Italy etc fill in the middle and a few are at the bottom. All badly managed with greedy unions, except Germany. They vote socialist or communist, yet their socialist workers or communist workers run their countries into deep debt - but not Germany. Think about it.