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You need to strike like others are doing today. - Tired of working for poverty.

Posted: Jul 29, 2013

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/29/fast-food-workers-plan-one-day-strike-for-monday/?test=latestnews

The Washington Post reports that the protests will take place in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Flint, Mich., involving workers at McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC. Some employees at stores including Dollar Tree, Macy's and Victoria's Secret are also expected to join the protesters in several cities.

"A lot of the workers are living in poverty, you know, not being able to afford to put food on the table or take the train to work."

The workers are calling for wages of $15 per hour, more than double New York's current minimum wage of $7.25.

they are crazy - will never see $15 an hour

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it will just make the cost of everything else go up. only the truly ignorant want minimum wage to increase.

So I am ingnorant? Because my pay went down - to minimum wage??

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And I would like for it go higher? How come the higher ups have no problem making their money and seeing huge increases in their pay??

I had to talk to IT the other day. - poverty wages

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IT department in Franklin are making money big time, 4 times the amount MTs are making in pay. He said MM has to pay him good or he would leave and do something else. He even works from home remotely. MM pays their employees pretty well. Most of the managers at MM do not even have a college degree or any MT experience and yet they are the boss telling us we need to work more and make more for the company. It is just the MTs who are willing to make poverty wages and put up with crap.

why would you settle for minimum wage? - just dont understand it.

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I'm working for the same company you are and making lots more than minimum wage. It's like we aren't working for the same company.

My state is the highest for minimum wage. - Moved to another account

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New account SUCKS! Benefit rate went down $4.85 because of this account. Not many like you MAKE THE MONEY as you say.

You must have good accounts. Trade accounts with me for a month. - will you still earn more than minimum

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According to past Hands On meeting, average lph is 186, and this ends up being minimum wage.

With the increased output of text not dictated and paucity of punctuation, editing is now taking more time and effort. I had a document in which, every time the the doctor said Oklahoma, the output was Oklahoma City.

Another question is how many job do you get with standards just needing a couple fill in the a few parameters. Or, are you actually getting straight typing job?

I have straight typing, 9 cpl - more than minimum

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you are in for a rude awakening - once you get ASR

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Its always those not affected YET that are so happy.

Oh, no wonder you do not get it. - Good luck

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You must have the only account left that is straight typing. Soon, it will go to ASR. Sure, I heard the same ole story about how the hospital does not want ASR, etc., but it will happen. So be prepared for the shock when you see your paycheck when it comes to ASR.

Yep, happened to me. - sm

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Had an account that was contracted straight typing. One day it went ASR and the next week it was gone. Great account too. That was where it started to get bad for me.

Wow! You are 1 lucky duck! Wish it was me too. - nothing but ASR nm

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I'm transcribing in someone else's shoes today, and it's good. - still earning minimum wage

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Got some hours from the swap board. Someone must be on vacation.

I'm getting accounts other than my usual, and the ASR output is mostly great and there are a lot of fill-in-the blank standards! My line count is a lot higher, but it's only a tiny bit above minimum still. :( You just can't win with MM ASR.

YOU are skilled labor. Unskilled labor such as fast food - should be minimum wage, and they are crazy

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to expect it to be doubled. Minimum wage is a start and was NEVER intended to be a living wage. People ARE ignorant in the fact that they seem to know nothing about how an economy works and how it is destroyed. They are using Obama's speeches, taking them literally, and unknowingly hurting their own country... ridiculous !

This is exactly what needs to happen - wheres_my_job

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I like that some retail workers are getting involved also.

People are not being paid a living wage. That's wrong - not just morally, but it's bad for the economy and bad politically. It's just bad all around.

ok then get ready for gas to go to $10 a gallon and bread $6 a loaf - x

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The REAL solution is to put caps on CEO salaries and to have them distribute out the profits among the employees. Pay would be directly tied to company success. This would make workers personally invested in their company and happier employees. I'm sure the $15/hour taco bell employees would still lick the taco shells before filling them for you....

also will cause more work less employees. - get ready to wait in line

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this solves nothing.

Wait in line at McDonalds/Taco Bell. - Do not make enough to buy their food.

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MM board of director salary went from $150,000 a year to $250,000 a year and that was about 6 years ago. OUR PAY WENT DOWN AND DOWN. Currently the president is making Total Calculated Compensation $1,526,969. That is just the president. Here is the CIO at Total Calculated Compensation $901,587. There used to be around 5 board of directors and now there is around 20 something making a ton of money and creating all kinds of new positions like CIO for medical information position. If the $10 a gallon goes up it is NOT OUR FAULT OR BECAUSE OF US. We can fight for our pay just like these board of directors did for the past 5 years.

The answer to the problem is so simple: Pay - workers more, CEOs less.

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The reason things are so bad in this country, and getting worse by the day, is G-R-E-E-D.

Unlike the beliefs of the "Excessive Eighties", greed is NOT good.

Like that will ever happen - anon

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CEO's will ALWAYS make more than those of us in the trenches. It will never change. Can't fight it either.

yeah that's what they said when minimum wage was 4.25 - people still whining about a living wage

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everything will go up just like it has for the last decade. You have to change the current business model, not just force employers to pay more.

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