In Reply to: Re: next-to-nothing is better than half-of-next-to-nothing:Where's the campaign? posted by The Nit Nurse on May 13, 1996 at 19:43:41:
My previous message got truncated on its way to the debating room. Hence the repost.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
: : : Lucky old you, a school cleaner is paid 1:60/hr, a security guard 1:20/hr
: : : and a garage forecourt attendant doing night shift a whopping
: : : great 2:10/hr. Average wage of a counter assistant in the retail
: : : sector is around 2:80 to 3:50/hr: :
: : So let's all be happy with our lot in life because there is always someone
: : out there who is worse off than we are!: No let's not all be happy with our lot in life, let's recognise that
: there are a whole bunch of people much worse off than a company who
: pays an average wage for that sector and work towards improving their
: lot.McD? working towards improving their workers lot? Who are you trying to kid?
I don't think even McD itself has ever come up with such a blatently misleading
statement about their employment policy yet! As far as McD is concerned, their
workers are primarily there to increase company profits. Genuine concern for the
well being of their staff is non-existance at this company. And just in case you try
to convince me otherwise, save your breath. I know what I say is true because
I lived with it for years at one of their so called "stores of the year". And I tell
you, if working conditions are as bad as what I experienced at one of the corporation's
flagship stores, then god help workers at other ordinary ones! Or
perhaps my store became the store of the year precisely because it exploited
workers more than other stores!If McD was seriously concerned about the welfare of their workers, then they would
allow unionisation of their staff. Banning union avtivities within their stores does
not exactly help improve their workers' lot does it?Now, we both agree that McD workers are poorly paid. The difference is in our approach
to the matter. While I think McD makes millions of £s of profits every year through
exploitation of their employees and that these employees have every right to fight
for a share of this profit in the form of highr wages and better conditions of work,
your pro-McD stance preaches total submission to employer under the pretext that
things could be worse.: So what? So do the miners, so do the women that have to stick their arms round
: toilet U-bends to unblock them. You think working for McDs is bad?
: Believe me, you don't know the half of it.And I suppose you do. By the way, I have seen many McD crew members (and not only
women either) who had to "stick their arms round toilet U-bends to unblock them"
since it would have worked out more expensive to call in a specialist company to do the job!