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This is 100% bullshit and they 100% know it. They pay employees in Denmark over 20$/hr and the food is actually cheaper there than it is here. If it was unsustainable, then they wouldn’t be doing business in Denmark. The difference between there and here, Denmark is essentially 100% regulated by industry-wide labor unions. Starbucks employees shouldn’t be trying to unionize, the entire fast-food industry should be unionizing together.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-workers-denmark/
Interesting, I don’t think I’d heard of an industry union like that. It’s a great idea
Yes you have, the Screen Actors Guild is an industry-wide actor’s union. The Writers Guild of America is an industry-wide guild for writers. The Teamsters as well. Actually most “Blue Collar” unions are industry unions. Plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc. all have industry-wide unions. It is a recent phenomenon relegated to service and sales industries that are forcing unions to be only at single stores instead of industry or even company wide.
Goes to show how effective the anti-union rhetoric has been. Fucking shame. Unions built modern America.
nah, slaves and otherwise oppressed people did.
Both are true, tho one came first.
Tho they might not experience other oppressions, all working people are still exploited and dependent upon players to exist. And most oppressed people are working people. The working class does not mean just white people, the working class is diverse.
Like the other guy said, both are true, but also it should be mentioned that you can certainly be in a union and be oppressed.
Anytime a corporation says something like this what they’re really saying is “It would inconvenience our executives and shareholders.”
“If I’m only able to buy two new yachts this year, and the CEO next door buys three, then that simply isn’t a sustainable business model”
Let’s be real, it is a threat against the consumer so we will do the work of keeping their employees in line. Translation for the corporate propaganda illiterate: “Hey, all you people, keep these upitty talking pieces of equipment we have to keep giving our hard-earned money to from thinking they deserve more of it or else we will take even more of your money than we already do. K thanks, bye!”
Your McDonald’s franchises are unsustainable? Oh well.
Most McDonald’s stores are privately owned franchises. If corporate is crafting their franchise agreements such that private store owners are not able to pay a living wage to employees, then corporate is to blame.
But private owners are the ones who ultimately set wages. Franchisees need to bear some responsibility here, too. They’re the ones who are in a position to pressure corporate for franchise agreements which give them a better opportunity to offer living wages, and they’re not.
I’ll stick to the multibillion dollar megacorp but you do you.
Translation: “We have decided that when given the choice between paying our workers a living wage and paying our executives lavishly, we pick the latter and think you are too dumb to notice”
That might be true, but people have to stop working there as employee demand dictates pay rates. Everyone saw this during the pandemic. Short supply of workers lead to an immediate raise in pay.
You also have to remember McDonald’s is a franchise business and the owner might not be taking in millions, as McDonald’s has been known to mistreat franchisees from lower income neighborhoods.
https://news.yahoo.com/mcdonalds-defeats-black-franchisees-1-134243905.html
https://www.eatthis.com/news-subway-mcdonalds-and-more-are-expected-to-be-investigated-by-the-ftc/
I mean I understand, but honestly I think if they can’t survive in the area they should just close shop. If it was too much of a bother corporate would subsidize but, this would also allow for more local alternatives to potentially appear. We don’t have a mcdonalds for a solid 40 mins from where I live, or any corporate/franchise chain, and the ma/pa food places are a nice change compared to going into more populated towns
I mean I understand, but honestly I think if they can’t survive in the area they should just close shop.
Understood, but the point I’m trying to make is that these franchisees are small businesses. They can’t access the billion dollar capital that McDonald’s corporate has.
You have to treat franchisees as small businesses, because besides the name, they pretty much are.
Close your disgusting business then. Please start abroad
Then die.
They always say that like it’s anyone’s problem but their own. Figure out how to make your business model adapt to changing circumstances or die out, either way this is a problem for McDonald’s to worry about internally, not for society to worry about on their behalf.
Bad business model, innit.
… while continuing to have a 45° profit angle year after year
Maybe they should pay their CEO 10x less
But its sustainable in other countries.
That’s capitalism, baby! Thanks for playing!
They’ve been offering $19-$22 an hour starting pay at at least one McDonald’s in Sunnyvale, CA. I don’t understand how $20 is unsustainable given CA prices.
Well then don’t run the Business
Paying your employees a livable wage is your first priority as a business owner. You always make payroll, no matter what.
If you can’t find a way to reconcile infinite growth as a company against your employees’ requirement to feed and house themselves, you’re a garbage business owner and should just step down.
I mean… McDonald’s corporation doesn’t sell hamburgers, or employ the workers. The franchisees do that. McDonald’s corporate pays their workers extremely well, but they are property managers. McDonald’s is a landlord that happens to rent exclusively to one type of business. They are probably correct that their own franchisees cannot afford rent, but that’s a whole different can of worms.
Perhaps everyone should just do what happened in Russia and just get rid of the franchise and carry on basically being the same business but without the trademarking.
Hell, I wouldn’t mind a little more variety in the menus.
I can dig it.
