From 'We're Fired Up!' to 'We're Fired?'

The con being perpetrated by the unions on the workers

"Activists (and notably well-dressed ones) who are rousing the crowds of fast food workers to protest and chant "We're fired up!" in the streets are using them as pawns and patsies by promising them what those specific workers will never see.  That is -- any significant increase in their hourly wage.  And that statement holds true even if the minimum wage ("MW") actually does get raised in any significant amount.

So the whole hidden agenda is a move by union organizers and activists to get union employees hired.  As a byproduct, they also want to unionize these workforces in order to gain the political power and dues collections that affords.  Once that happens and the union negotiates a higher wage, the poor $8.00-per-hour saps who were used to get this put in place will be replaced by higher-skilled union workers brought in by the union.

I saw this happen many years ago, and it led to an interesting ethical discussion. "

 [American Thinker]