Fast Food Workers Vow Civil Disobedience: Burger Flipper Demands 'Living Wage' To Pay For College To Become A Police Officer

weaselzippers;

Wait until the Union dues are taken out of their paycheck.

Via WISTV

Comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement, fast food workers from across the country voted Saturday to escalate their efforts for $15-an-hour pay and union membership by using nonviolent civil disobedience.

More than 1,300 workers gathered in a convention in center in suburban Chicago to discuss the future of a campaign that has spread to dozens of cities in less than two years. Wearing T-shirts that said “Fight for $15″ and “We Are Worth More,” the workers cheered loudly and said they would win if they stuck together.

“People are just fed up,” said Cindy Enriquez, 20, of Phoenix.

The $8.25 an hour she makes working for McDonald’s is not enough to go to college and become a police officer and barely enough to pay her rent, Enriquez said.

While the vote didn’t list any specific acts of civil disobedience, Enriquez said some workers suggested sit-ins and perhaps blocking businesses. She said they need to keep pressure on owners even if it means sitting in front of restaurants “to make sure they do not sell anything.”

“We’re going to keep on going,” Enriquez said.

The Service Employees International Union has been providing financial and organizational support to the fast-food protests. They began in late 2012 in New York City and have included daylong strikes and a loud but peaceful demonstration outside this year’s McDonald’s Corp. shareholder meeting, where more than 130 protesters were arrested after stepping onto company property.

Saturday’s convention in Villa Park, Illinois, included sessions on civil disobedience and leadership training. Kendall Fells, an organizing director for the campaign and a representative of SEIU, said when and what actions happen next will be up to workers in each city.

The Rev. William Barber II, head of the North Carolina NAACP, said the movement is young but as important as when civil disobedience efforts began during the early years of the civil rights movement.

“People should not work and be willing to work and then be denied living wages and be denied health care because of greed,” Barber said.

“This movement is saying that America is less than she promises to be, morally and constitutionally, by denying living wages,” Barber said. “If you raise wages for workers, you buoy the whole economy.”

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Thank You WISTV and Dapandico.

Hysterical, in a frightening sort of way.

"The $8.25 an hour she makes working for McDonald’s is not enough to go to college and become a police officer and barely enough to pay her rent, Enriquez said."

She's squirting mayo and mustard on burgers, dunking baskets of pre cut fries into the grease, and asking customers if they'd like to supersize something or other.

And for That she expects a Paid college education and then a badge and a loaded gun at whatever the PD she ends up working for pays, Probably to Unionize and make further demands for higher wages.

And you wonder how blogs like This come into existence, with Talent like Her:

http://www.policemisconduct.net/
http://www.policestateusa.com/

Just what America needs: her work experience at MacDonalds qualifies her for a 4 year PAID tour at Leftist U. and then a 'Pass' grade on her psychological exam for her gig as a Law Enforcement Officer.

No Bats in This one's Belfry.

WASS.