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thranx on 04 July 2014
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SamuelRSmith said:
thranx said:

Most Mc Donalds are franchised and privatly owned. Not owned by the Mc D's corp. So they could be considered a small business and a large i guess. I know the three mc donalds by me are privatly owned (2 by a former Mc D janitor that saved his money, worked hard, and bought 2 of them). So Mc D's does not employ most Mc D workers, rather they are under the employmnet of the owner of that location.


Well, in the UK, around 50% of stores are McDonald's owned, but the point still stands in general.

Not really, wal mart, and Mc D's are both against raising the minimun wage. As far as I know. After doing some research it looks like Mc D's operates differently in the UK and Ireland with fewer than 30% of stores being privatly owned, in the US that jumps to 85%.

People are always comparing wal mart to costco and their pay scales. But for wal mart to accomplish paying their workes that much they would most likely invest in a ton of automated equiptment and ware houses, and just lay off workers by the hundreds. To have the few that are left make more, with the machines doing the work. It will most likely happen either way as amazon pressures them more online. Amazon is going to be the new wal mart. Wal mart has slacked on its distribution investment and allowed amazon to make some nice advantages.

I am against it too.

I manage a pizza place, we just raised the min wage by a dollar. As a result I will be letting 3 people go. That sucks. They aren't bad people, but aren't worth paying 9 an hour to. They will be replaced by 1 or 2 better workers (and over time we will have less people working and more automation, it happens every time we raise mmin wage, I have been here since min wage was 5 dollars). All the minimum wage does is hurt those that need it most. It makes people unemployable, and that sucks. I know those three workers would rather make 9 an hour and have a job, than no job. But we dont have that choice any more.