On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 23:27:57 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote:

Officials with the National Restaurant Association have said the one-day
strikes are publicity stunts. They warn that increasing pay to $15 an hour
when the federal minimum wage is $7.25 would cause restaurants to rely more
on automation and hire fewer workers.

Industry officials say that only a small percentage of fast-food jobs pay
the minimum wage and that those are largely entry-level jobs for workers
under 25.
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This bourgeoisie B/S goes back to at least the gilded age*
of Hanna/McKinley and the robber barons when the workers at
last began to unionize and push back. The only thing missing
is blaming "outside agitators" for stirring up trouble among
the contented masses on the plantation.

It is highly dangerous delusion and rationalization, and an
insult to anyone who has studied history**.

From the gilded age:
“The rights and interests of the laboring man will be
protected and cared for—not by the labor agitators, but by
the Christian men to who God in His infinite wisdom has
given the control of the property interests of this country.
.. .”
George F. Baker of Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iron
July 1 1902
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fisher_Baker
http://archive.org/stream/yearsofplu...srich_djvu.txt

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

**
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_h..._United_States