FOX & Friends: Work Two Jobs, and Expect to Get Minimum Wage!

Skeeve Douchey, from Raw Story

There is a reason that the oddly named FOX & Friends is routinely mocked by Saturday Night Live, and also a reason its "star" Steve Doocey is often maligned as "Steve Douchey." This talentless, insipid crew of "personalities" likely makes more in week or two than a minimum wage worker gets in a year. And yet, the hosts rarely show even mock empathy toward these people. It's right in line with the FOX "News" agenda of supporting corporations, and screw the little guy.

The striking fast food workers that Douchey is talking about work for corporations that make billions in profits. Profit means money above operating expenses, meaning gravy. It's really cool to pay shareholders sweet dividends, and to give your execs fat bonuses. But do these corporations really want to be known as one-step-above sweatshops or slave labor? You'd think in the hyper-competitive fast food industry, one of these guys would make a name for having the best paid, happiest workers. They could even make an ad campaign out of it: We've raised our prices 5 cents on each item, to give our employees a better wage! For no more than a quarter per order, we'll give our workers the best!

But FOX & Friends wants you to suck it up, work two minimum wage jobs, for the good of corporations. They're "job creators" after all. . .

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Fox News tells striking workers to get two jobs and ‘expect to get paid the minimum wage’

The hosts of Fox & Friends on Friday suggested that fast food workers should stop striking for higher pay and get a second job because the minimum wage “was never meant to be a career wage. . .”

Read more at: Raw Story

Wisconsin Labor Group Bans Republicans from Labor Day Parade

Image from source, DailyKos

From the "This Makes So Much Sense" department, Republican officials have been banned from the The Wausau Labor Day Parade. Why--since the Republicans of Wisconsin (and elsewhere) are so openly hostile to  labor groups--would they even want to be included?

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Wisconsin labor group bans Republican politicians from Labor Day parade 

It should come as no surprise that organizers choose not to invite elected officials who have openly attacked worker's rights or stood idly by while their political party fought to strip public workers of their right to collectively bargain. . .

Read more at: Daily Kos