you have to lift everyone over that minimum and away we go. precisely. if you want to it s 18 minutes for your hamburger and maybe have a mixed chicken instead of a hamburger, let s unionize the fast-food stores. we have to admission the demonstrations are not organic. the sdiu has spent millions of dollars in trying to artificially drum of this controversy. they should be celebrating the fact that mcdonald s raised the wage without government coercion and are taking a step in the right direction butdownens are going after more members trying to expand their power and control. they re not really concerned about the livelihood of any of these mcdonald s workers. that needs to be pointed out. katherine, i would be up for raising the minimum wage. don t know the magic level. maybe pegged to inflation, but mcdonald s did also offer paid sick league and paid vacation time. the kind of things that are generally available to salaried