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Inequality for All (2013)
Call for A National Strike for all Minimum Wage Workers
Do you think it would catch their attention if we were to organize a national strike in which every individual making only minimum wage were to walk off their jobs on the same day across the nation? The fast food industries capture some headlines when they walked out and asked for $15.00 an hour. We need to hit them where it hurts if we are to get their attention, and since places like the Walmart's McDonals, and such can not function if there was a walk out since that is just about all they employ they would have to shut their door, and that would cost them.
I watched your movie and found it to be very interesting. Unions need to be organized in these places, possibly of have representatives come to the places where these walk outs would take place. They have used the threat of firing people seeking to start or join a union, but if you make it into a massive event, they can't fire everyone. That would mean closing their doors indefinitely. There's power in numbers. I forgot to mention the the person they hired to replace me was half my age.
We also need to also revisit the At Will employment act the allows employers to circumvent the anti discrimination laws by giving them the power to fire someone for any or no reason at all. A lot of companies are using a severance pay in which they require the employee to sign off any rights to come back at them for any reason, less they relinquish the right or pay back any severance pay paid them. Most decriminalization cases are all but impossible to prove when the reason for letting them go is listed as at will. And the individual is told this up front and that the employer will be notified of your claim, even before they determine if you have a claim.
I'm over 40, and worked for the same company for more than 12 years. I had noticed that several people that like me were over 40 and had been with the company for some time being laid off periodically. And then they came to me and told me that I was being let go because they didn't have enough work for me. I was the oldest and most senior person in my department. My papers listed me as being released at will. They hired someone to replace me less than a month after letting me go claiming that they did not have enough work to accommodate that position. When I wrote them as my right, to ask for the reason for my termination, their reply was simply, I was at will and they were not saying anything beyond that. I've been out of work now for almost 2 years.