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At first glance, it might seem like a McDonald's in Lynwood, California has been the victim of a prank. As Business Insider reports, the restaurant's trademark golden arches have been entirely flipped upside down.
But franchisee Patricia Williams says that's not the case. Rather, it's in celebration of International Women's Day on March 8th. McDonald's spokesperson Lauren Altmin tells CNBC Make It that the golden "M" will be flipped into a golden "W" in "celebration of women everywhere." https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/07/mcdo...side-down.html |
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That can't have been easy from a structural stand point. They would have had to make a special 'W' to have the mounting points moved from the bottom to the top. This means it was a big deal for McDonald's to do this.
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I thought that it meant that McDonalds was bought by Wal*Mart.
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What about fair wages for female employees? We turned our golden arches around... it's a pretty expensive deal! |
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What I meant to avoid was a conversation like the following:
McDonald's turned the 'M' into a 'W' for Women's Day. Pfft, that's no big thing it is so easy to do. Why don't they do something meaningful. As to equal wages for employees of any sex, I don't know that they have any problem at the store level as most stores are franchises rather than directly owned company stores. The question is there equality at the corporate level? Does McDonald's offer franchises equally regardless of sex? If you have any information about these issues, please tell us. |
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It's not only Alarm who has that idea: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonal...en-draws-fire/ and I note that most of the complainers think the men working there should get better wages, too. -- If women are routinely paid less at the stores then men are (and I don't know whether that's true, they may be paying everyone equally poorly) I don't think the stores being franchises gets the central corporation off the hook. If there's an occasional odd store doing it, but nearly all of them don't, then that's a fair argument; but if it's common, the central corporation should either be doing something to stop it, or else expect to take part of the blame for it. |
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That would be better, but it's probably a losing battle to expect fast food employers to voluntarily pay much more than minimum wage. Even if McDonald's did, they'd be competing against companies that didn't, and McDonald's is not a high budget brand. It's better to take the decision out of their hands and do it at a societal level rather than corporate level.
The location in the article is in California, where minimum wage is in the process of raising $1 per year, and will be at $15 in 4 years, which I think would be a reasonable level for that job. It's near the per capita income (though that's still well below the median income for employed adults), and significantly above the poverty line for a family in most places. |
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So people don't like the attempt at a message? And by the way, I hate the term "Sending a message" except when applied to actually sending a letter, memo, e-mail, etc. You know like sending a real message as opposed to doing something that is supposed to "send a message."
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My issue with this "stunt", was why spend so much money on what is, to all intent and purpose, a "stunt" and nothing more. It has no lasting effect, it does nothing to improve women's lives, it's not even a message. It's just "Hold my beer, look at this!"
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Looks more like cleavage than a W anyway.
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Single payer healthcare would go a long way toward making lower incomes less unpredictable and crushing like that. Some basic social services like free preschool and before/after school programs would also help keep a lot of kids out of poverty. Public transportation, which most places in the US don't bother to do well, is also a factor. Everyone has to have a car, which is expensive to operate (especially the older ones that are less expensive up front), and if they don't it constrains where they can live to worse or less affordable options or adds many hours to their work week that they're not being compensated for. I don't think we're going to successfully guilt corporations like McDonald's into genuinely caring, so I think focusing on political solutions is more productive, even though there doesn't seem to be the political will to do anything as a country. |
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