a McDonald's employee by the neighbor Nancy saw gotta go out went
to a press conference where the USA president
up McDonalds just stratton was speaking
and here's what happened lowman and a single mother
so it's a really hard for me to be in my
yet and struggle day-to-day do you think this is
have to be making May 25 when I have worked for me
battles like 10 year missing
its an annual rate but yeah held behind Friday's
how is this possible to you
you are you doing your afghani out here
body I and that have done all that for your Friday
you haven't done anything alright and visit the real news dot com for more of
video about a situation they did a good job covering not
up but I love the fact that she literally spoke truth to power their
because he didn't expect that he didn't see it coming and I love the security
guard says you're gonna get arrested
for what for speaking the truth for talking about how you she can't feed her
own family
and you and as you guys know fast food workers have been protesting they've
been striking
because they want to get fifty paid fifty dollars an hour they wanna have
the right
to form unions on and it seems like these businesses are refusing to allow
to do that
and one else would she have access to me tells USA president so
it's not like hey you did in the wrong way normally he's meeting with you
employees all the time
you know but so why did you have to cause a ruckus
knowing she didn't cause a ruckus fee simply stated water issuers
now look if there was a continuing disturbance yada yada I understand but
it certainly didn't seem too
rice that level with a threatened the rest at that point and by the way more
importantly
the CEO could ask the question right yeah I've been here for 40 years
and that doesn't answer anything and by the way did you start
at the eight you know the when you were ten years and we making a dozen 25 cents
I would be surprised if you could have said that if that was the case
because we did the story where the managers come from the UL
employee ranks only like three percent of the time in fast food
right a you know joints like this and so
very unlikely the CEO use actually you know make burgers back in the day
so it's not something that happens often but it was you can tell us your story
or if you're the CEO in look somebody asked me about
their salary yes sir you say hey listen
here's why we pay what we pay: I nurse in your situation i think is really
tough
and I love you for working at mcdonnell's you know under those so
circumstances I know
and you been with us for ten years and i appreciate your loyalty you know we try
to do the best we can but here's our cost structure it setter
but he probably doesn't have that answer sorry goes well you have it here for
years
somebody riskier yeah and he doesn't he doesn't have an answer
because there's absolutely no reason why these
you know low-level employees shouldn't get paid more money
okay they get paid minimum wage that that's just how it goes and she's been
with the company for years it's not like she's been there for like a few months
she's asking for fifteen dollars an hour
I'm just let you guys know exactly how much they make in profits
last year alone mcdonnell's made 5.5 billion dollars in profits
so that's why the answer is impossible for yeah is he can't in good conscience
a well I could pay you a living wage but then we'd only make 4.5 billion dollars
in profits
right and the reality is he could
and they would make 4.5 and then he would get fired right
yeah because they would say you could meet 5.5 so we will now have
someone else run the robot that is this corporation that happens to be in this
case mcdonald's
and we will squeeze every red cent at a bar customers
%uh and mainly our employees to make sure we make the maximum amount a profit
so look corporations are built this way
you can't build a machine and then damn the machine grade
understand how it works if you wanna fix it then fix the code
right say hey you know what corporations will no longer work this way
their work slightly different right we need a profit motive but we could do it
in a slightly different way for example in Germany
labor is half for the port so than they actually care about their employees
is like Germany's doing poorly second-best economy in the world
right so there's a different way to structure the machine so you get the
result you want
this is the result we've gotten where the majority of us get crushed
and the guys the very top of the machine get all the money