Thursday, January 12, 2017

TKC MUST SEE!!! KANSAS CITY 'FIGHT FOR $15' PROTEST PREZ-ELECT TRUMP AND LABOR PICK AT LOCAL HARDEE'S!!!



MSM is reporting a couple of dozen but it more like a handful against Prez-Elect Trump at a local fast food place connected to a recent headline.

Here's the backstory that sparked the protest . . .

Huff Post: These Hardee’s Workers Wound Up With Less Than Minimum Wage Under Trump’s Labor Pick

Deets:

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Andy Puzder, the CEO of the Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. burger chains, to be America’s next labor secretary. In doing so, Trump may be drawing more attention to the plight of low-wage workers than he could have imagined.

Puzder’s company violated minimum wage law by paying Hardee’s workers with pre-paid Visa debit cards, according to a 2014 investigation by the Labor Department obtained by the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank. Workers incurred fees on those cards whenever they used ATMs outside of the designated network to redeem their pay.

The workers’ pay rates were so low that the fees pushed their overall pay below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, investigators found . . .
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