WAKING A SLEEPING GIANT

Simple minded elitist refer to fast food workers as “unskilled” and not deserving of a livable wage. They threaten to replace them with machines should they complain about their working conditions or wages.

The one thing these simpletons forgot to take into account is that these are “human beings” and being treated like machines will eventually provoke them to defend themselves against this kind of abuse.

It appears that the red line has been crossed.

Fast-food workers kick off global labor action | Al Jazeera America

The world’s largest protest of fast-food workers kicked off Thursday with workers demonstrating in 150 cities in the United States and more than 30 other countries. The protesters are demanding better pay in a global rallying cry against rising income inequality, continuing on the heels of an 18-month-long labor campaign for higher fast-food wages in America.

Thursday’s protests come after the first-ever global meeting of fast-food workers last week, organized by the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) in New York. Dozens of delegates from labor unions representing 12 million workers in 126 countries joined the U.S. movement of fast-food workers, which, Fells said, “created a huge sense of unity of fast-food workers around the globe.

Pope Francis recently called for a “legitimate redistribution” of wealth when meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, saying governments should work to end the “economy of exclusion” that plagues the poor and the middle class from rising up the economic ladder.

The pope, who has often reiterated his desire to see the Catholic Church be “a poor Church [...] for the poor,” went on to argue that the only way to overcome poverty is to push forward and progress: “Much more needs to be achieved, since an important part of humanity does not share in the benefits of progress and is in fact relegated to the status of second-class citizens.”