Supporting Our Workers, Or Not

ON BLACK FRIDAY, WAL MART workers got out and protested their low wages. Today, Thursday, Dec. 6, in a hundred cities in the United States, fastfood workers did the same thing. The worker's movement in America is still alive! There is an international fast food worker's labor union, but American workers are not part of it. The International is trying to change that. The protesting American low wage fast food worker say they want higher wages, living wages, and the right to unionize. Actually, they already the "right" to unionize, regardless of whatever any employer or any law might say. Might makes right. The prevailing notion is that fast food workers want a wage of fifteen dollars an hour. The truth is, almost every one of them would most likely be happy with a lot less. It would still be more than what they make now. Strangely enough, an online survey indicates that three out of four Americans think that fifteen dollars an hour is too much to pay fast food workers. Is it possible that the survey was answered only by the most conservative republicans in America? Or is is even remotely possible that three fourths of Americans do not understand how hard fast food workers work, or how little fifteen dollars an hour really is? Ar ewe teh American people by chance fearful that our big mad or taco supreme might go up in price a wee bit? It looks like the workers will have to do it on their own, of they are to see any improvement in their situation. The American people do not seem inclined to support them. Would the American people support them at twelve an hour? Ten? Surely, the American people do not favor worker exploitation.