Saturday, August 16, 2014

Ken Braun: $15 minimum wage protesters will get fast food burger robots hired sooner

Ken Braun: $15 minimum wage protesters will get fast food burger robots hired sooner | MLive.com:
"The fast food of the future will likely be served by one or two high tech workers operating very smart robots. 
It will be science fiction fantasy come true for most of us.
Whether it becomes science fiction horror for the low skill, entry level workers of the future depends on the bad public policy choices we do or don’t make today.
After a convoluted drama involving both a failed ballot initiative and ultimately a new law this spring, Michigan’s minimum wage will be hiked up to $9.25 per hour in 2018.
But this didn’t stop 40 picketers from hitting the streets of Flint at the end of July to protest outside a local McDonald’s.
According to the MLive story, demonstrators were from “D-15,” a coalition of Big Labor and “faith-based” organizations that agitate for a $15 minimum wage and unionization of minimum wage workers."

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