McDonald’s Wants Another Corporate Jet, Not Raises For Low Wage Workers

http://www.alternet.org/economy/mcdonalds-buying-jet-not-boosting-wages



Shame on McDonald’s. The giant fast-food corporation, whose 700,000-plus American employees are paid so little that they rely on $1.2 billion in taxpayer-funded welfare to can get by, just bought “another $35-million-dollar luxury jet.”

That’s according to the Campaign For America’s Future, which has launched an online petition calling for the nation’s largest fast food chain to pay living wages—starting at $15 an hour instead of pennies about the federal minimum wage, which is half that.

“It’s not right to impoverish your employees while sailing above them at a rate of $2,500 an hour. It's immoral to do it with a taxpayer subsidy,” the Campaign said. “Sign the petition telling Donald Thompson, CEO of McDonald's to cancel his order for another corporate jet until he pays all his employees a decent wage.”

According to the National Employment Law Project, Thompson made $13.7 million in 2012, and the corporation reported $5.6 billion in profits. Progressive economists have reported that McDonald’s could pay the $10.50 an hour wage if it raised the price of its popular Big Mac items by a nickel.