food workers out there striking because this impacts them, they need it but the reason this took such, the reason this blew up in so many ways and brought so many people out together is because people are really saying that the minimum wage is not enough for them. they understand there s a recovery they re not feeling it. and jonas, there has been some growing consensus we ve seen seattle we ve seen oakland, different cities raising the minimum wage and also some major employers walmart, target mcdonald s. so this has had, the pressure has had some effect. definitely and i kind of side with emily. i don t think it s such a clever, organized scheme so much as the unions are jumping on a populist movement to kind of get the brand benefit. little to gary s point they re taking a lot of hits for boosting middle class workers salaries with ridiculous health when it fits and pensions they have a bad reputation with the public and trying to gain it back latching onto the group
and works more naturally than stimulant laxatives. for gentle cramp free relief of occasional constipation that works! mmm mmm live the regular life. following in the footsteps of walmart and target mcdonald s has become the latest company to announce plans to raise waj wages for its lowest paid workers. announcing it will pay u.s. workers at company owned restaurants at least a dollar an hour more than the local minimum wage. they will ride to 9.99 on july first and then up to more than 10 bucks by the end of 2016. that s for the company stores which is about 10% of u.s. mcdonald s. the other 90% are run by franchises. they say the change will impact about 90,000 employees.
executives, and i tell you the protests are out there, but the folks we talked to do say that they think this is a pretty meaningful first step. look at the numbers. it s a dollar over minimum wage in addition paid time off as well as well as educational benefits. it would raise the average annual pay to over 20,000. the union wants it to over $30,000 but that would be a 58% increase. i talked to karen king the chief people officer, they call her, at mcdonald s, what we used to call personnel. she, i should note, worked her way up from a counter worker, making minimum wage in georgia, 3.25, in 1975, up to corporate vp and says this is the best thing for the workers and shareholders of mcdonald s. thank you. just going through this now you have walmart target mcdonald s, all hiking, but the protests keep on coming and coming. charlie says enough is enough.
mcdonltds toald s took a beatin that one. it was about eating their food for 30 days. this ad was by a nonprofit group. physicians committee for responsible medicine. it began airing mainly on cable tv in the washington, d.c. area. but as you were saying, you think it s unfair to target mcdonald s specifically. but as you re saying, 10% of people may have worked at mcdonald s. 100% of americans have eaten mcdonald s. no doubt. it reminds me of there was an effort in southern california where a municipality wanted to ban mcdonald s from including toys in their happy meals. figuring that those toys were a lure that parents could not resist for their kids. at that time i argued the same thing i argue here. it s not mcdonald s that s putting food into people s mouths. it s individuals making the choice to do so. so if you want a real debate about healthy diets, let s target consumers and not mcdonald s. they re making a perfectly legal product in the country.