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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1639110" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>i read this too. i sincerely doubt mcdonalds employees are worse off than american mcdonalds employees. i would bet they are a bit better off. america has the most violent labor history, the left wing is almost completely smashed, and most workers are non unionized despite unions being statistically better for workers (not to say unions have problems). the EU right wing press was even stunned that it took america so long to have EI, social security, etc.</p><p></p><p>denmark is the "happiest country on earth" after all.</p><p></p><p>this is alternet who i read quite often. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/labor/burger-king-and-mcdonalds-pay-fast-food-workers-20-hour-denmark" target="_blank">http://www.alternet.org/labor/burger-king-and-mcdonalds-pay-fast-food-workers-20-hour-denmark</a> :</p><p></p><p>the general manager of HMSHost Denmark, the airport restaurants operator, told the Times: “We have to acknowledge it’s more expensive to operate. But we can still make money out of it — and McDonald’s does, too. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be in Denmark.”</p><p></p><p>A <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/business/international/living-wages-served-in-denmark-fast-food-restaurants.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0" target="_blank">New York Times article on Tuesday</a> chronicled the life of a Danish fast food worker named Hampus Elofsson, who works 40 hours a week at a Burger King in Copenhagen, and makes enough not only to pay his bills, but to save some money and enjoy a night out with friends.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/business/international/living-wages-served-in-denmark-fast-food-restaurants.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/business/international/living-wages-served-in-denmark-fast-food-restaurants.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</a></p><p></p><p>"By contrast, fast-food wages in the United States are so low that<strong> half of the nation’s fast-food workers rely on some form of public assistance</strong>, <a href="http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/fast-food-poverty-wages-the-public-cost-of-low-wage-jobs-in-the-fast-food-industry/" target="_blank">a study</a> from the University of California, Berkeley found. American fast-food workers earn an average of $8.90 an hour.</p><p></p><p>Mr. Moore’s daughters receive health care through Medicaid, while he is uninsured because he cannot afford Burger King’s coverage, he said.</p><p></p><p>In Denmark, fast-food workers are guaranteed benefits their American counterparts could only dream of. Under the industry’s collective agreement, there are five weeks’ paid vacation, paid maternity and paternity leave and a pension plan. Workers must be paid overtime for working after 6 p.m. and on Sundays.</p><p></p><p>"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 1639110, member: 56035"] i read this too. i sincerely doubt mcdonalds employees are worse off than american mcdonalds employees. i would bet they are a bit better off. america has the most violent labor history, the left wing is almost completely smashed, and most workers are non unionized despite unions being statistically better for workers (not to say unions have problems). the EU right wing press was even stunned that it took america so long to have EI, social security, etc. denmark is the "happiest country on earth" after all. this is alternet who i read quite often. [URL]http://www.alternet.org/labor/burger-king-and-mcdonalds-pay-fast-food-workers-20-hour-denmark[/URL] : the general manager of HMSHost Denmark, the airport restaurants operator, told the Times: “We have to acknowledge it’s more expensive to operate. But we can still make money out of it — and McDonald’s does, too. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be in Denmark.” A [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/business/international/living-wages-served-in-denmark-fast-food-restaurants.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0']New York Times article on Tuesday[/URL] chronicled the life of a Danish fast food worker named Hampus Elofsson, who works 40 hours a week at a Burger King in Copenhagen, and makes enough not only to pay his bills, but to save some money and enjoy a night out with friends. [URL]http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/business/international/living-wages-served-in-denmark-fast-food-restaurants.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0[/URL] "By contrast, fast-food wages in the United States are so low that[B] half of the nation’s fast-food workers rely on some form of public assistance[/B], [URL='http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/fast-food-poverty-wages-the-public-cost-of-low-wage-jobs-in-the-fast-food-industry/']a study[/URL] from the University of California, Berkeley found. American fast-food workers earn an average of $8.90 an hour. Mr. Moore’s daughters receive health care through Medicaid, while he is uninsured because he cannot afford Burger King’s coverage, he said. In Denmark, fast-food workers are guaranteed benefits their American counterparts could only dream of. Under the industry’s collective agreement, there are five weeks’ paid vacation, paid maternity and paternity leave and a pension plan. Workers must be paid overtime for working after 6 p.m. and on Sundays. " [/QUOTE]
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