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Re: The hypocrisy of anti-McDonald stance...

Posted by: Ryan Butterfoss ( University of Virginia, USA ) on April 29, 1997 at 12:03:01:

In Reply to: Re: The hypocrisy of anti-McDonald stance... posted by Jennifer on April 24, 1997 at 20:50:42:

> How would you treat the workers if you were the boss?
> The cases about the mistreatment and treatment of workers unfair is true.
> Do you mean just because the employer provide the employee salary its fair
> for him to treath him the way he want?

No, not at all. I am in favor of the worker, having been one myself. I'm just angry at all this protest over McDonald's, and then throwing worker's rights in with that, when all they're trying to do is misuse the labor cause to get rid of their jobs. Because of the franchise nature of McDonald's, it all revolves around the individual owner. I know that in my area, they are treated decently.

> They pay for the employees services.

> The unions guide the employees in a lot of matters, like how much salary they
> have the right to and how many hours a day they can work and if they have
> the right to be paid when they are working overtime.

I personally am against unions, simply because it has been shown time and time again that they don't raise real income, but only serve to increase inflation. Plus I'm pretty sure that there aren't too many McDonald unions out there. There's too high of a turnover rate due to the young age of the employees.



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