"So why do liberals who deride it and want it to be like Denmark or someplace instead stay?"
Why doesn't Ronnie McDonald treat American workers as good as, if not better, than their Danish counterparts? After all, he is supposedly an American clown.
I’m making $21 an hour at McDonald’s. Why aren’t you?
By Louise Marie Rantzau
May 15, 2014
I work for McDonald’s and I make $21 an hour.No, that isn’t a typo. It’s really my salary.
You see, I work for McDonald’s in Denmark, where an agreement between our union and the company guarantees that workers older than 18 are paid at least $21 an hour. Employees younger than 18 make at least $15 — meaning teenagers working at McDonald’s in Denmark make more than two times what many adults in America earn working at the Golden Arches.
To anyone who says that fast-food jobs can’t be good jobs, I would answer that mine isn’t bad. In fact, parts of it are just fine. Under our union’s agreement with McDonald’s, for example, I receive paid sick leave that workers are still fighting for in many parts of the world. We also get overtime pay, guaranteed hours and at least two days off a week, unlike workers in most countries. At least 10 percent of the staff in any given restaurant must work at least 30 hours a week.....
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