Call GOP contributor Wendy's restaurants at 614 764-3553 and demand a $10 minimum wage.

Call GOP contributor Wendy's restaurants at 614 764-3553 and Tell the person in public relations that you want their CEO to get the GOP to help enact a $10/HR MIN. WAGE into law and until this happens you will not go to a Wendy's Restaurant.

Shouldn't we be working on Democrats in Congress who answer to the electorate if we want this, rather than CEOs who have to answer to their shareholders?

This attack on GOP contributors with a phone campaign puts pressure on the contributor and the GOP to stop filibustering and vetoing good legislation.

...but simultaneously weak enough that phone calls will make them fold? Look, I agree that the wage needs to be at LEAST $10, and thereafter pegged to inflation, but you're barking up the wrong tree. The CEO of Wendy's does not give a whisper of a shit if their call center peon flunkies are pestered by a few people, which is all your campaign will ever win over. Wanna do some good? Find activists in your area with an infrastructure base that's been working on the issue; such groups are making progress, as evidenced by the fact that this is finally even part of the wider political conversation. Work WITH such a group, not in parallel, and your efforts are far more likely to see results than a lone nut spamming a discussion forum.

They cannot afford the bad publicity and to lose business and get many phone calls.

You have to attack the contributors to the Republican party with a boycott and phone campaign because the Republicans in congress will not do anything otherwise.

DU has nowhere near the critical mass of members needed for such a thing to work. It's absolutely true that going after their donors in the pocketbook can have an effect. It's false that a DU spammer will be the messiah that leads America to the promised land of good wages and, apparently, Westinghouse light bulbs. Work with activist groups and you may accomplish something. Sitting on your behind posting the same quixotic request of tortuously-derived relevance every day will accomplish about as much as an excessively verbose bumper sticker. Oh, wait...

please explain that

:shrug:

And therefore individual Wendy's restaurants are owned individually...?

So in order to really effect change you have to email/call all of them...?

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It's a franchise. Wendy's are owned and operated and managed individually. Therefore, if you call the company headquarters and insist they talk to Congress about the minimum wage, they will only say that the pay of the average worker is determined by management of each individual franchise office, and not the company. Since they don't have the power to mandate pay for their workers, they will dodge the issue and go about their business.

You're not giving them an incentive to do what you want them to do, because they can push responsibility off on someone else. The majority of people will accept their explanation and move on.

The result is no motivation, high absenteeism, and high turnover. If the workplace were designed in such a way as to motivate workers by making them feel like they have a stake in the decision-making structure and rewarding them with good pay, customer service would go up, and customer wait times should go down with increased productivity.

If you really want to affect Wendy's, join the local labor unions and work to unionize the local franchises. Direct action works. IWW has been working to unionize Starbucks shops in NYC. I know Wendy's and Starbucks are service-sector jobs, but at the current rate, the only jobs left will be service-sector jobs, so it makes sense to unionize them to replace the unionized manufacturing jobs that have been lost.

1. As others have pointed out, Wendy's is a franchise and does not set its own wages.
2. Political boycott threats are just laughed off by everyone. When I worked at Target we'd giggle at the one or two "I AM NEVER COMING BACK BECAUSE OF YOUR (LEFT-WING/RIGHT-WING) POLICIES" comments we'd get per week.
3. The GOP is not the party in power.
4. The Democrats are not proposing a $10 min wage.
5. There is no way a fast-food business would ever support increasing the min wage.
6. The GOP would not change its fundamental platform because one contributor asked them to.
7. The PR rep is not responsible for political donations.

Anything else?

Cause that would be really silly. :crazy:

If you don't ask you don't get.

with fries.

just thought I'd try to totally hijack this thread, you soul-devouring carnivore.

You going to eat all those fries?

You want ketchup?

Unless they have BBQ Sauce.

Pepsi is treason.
Tater tots are securities fraud.

That burger and fries will cost you $12.95.

I mean, they wanted to charge me 50 cents for an extra honey mustard sause for my spicy chicken sandwich.

You should all be calling NOW!!!111!!!###!!!!!11!!!

I won't tell them I'm vegetarian.

A couple of problems with your idea. First, if everyone at DU called Wendy's and stopped eating there, they wouldn't notice. Second, if you adjusted the wage there to $10 an hour, the effect would be varied across the country. In some places, workers would get a pay cut. In others, the wage would be so high that Wendy's would have a longer line for employment than for their "food," and the lower totem pole workers would be let go in favor of the higher qualified applicants. Wendy's would have to adjust their prices to make up for their additional costs, and so people would stop eating there and go to McDonald's, so Wendy's would fire all of its workers and shut down, and wages would go down as the market was glutted with fast food workers. McDonald's would hire them at the lower wage, and would make more money, and would donate some of that extra money to Republicans who opposed raising the minimum wage.

If you really want to bring about change, you have to do what is known in political circles as lobbying. You organize a lot of like-minded individuals, find a way to get some money--begging usually works--and orchestrate a campaign to influence people and politicians (not that politicians aren't people). Then, of course, John Edwards and Barack Obama would accuse you of being a lobbyist and would completely ignore you, but that's politics.

Screaming on a message board will get you nothing you want, or we'd all be very happy with nothing to complain about now.

Your calling someone in a telephone bank God knows wheere and threatening them with the something they couldn't care less about. Even if 10,000 people boycotted it would hardly dent their bottom line. And the argument that it's "bad publicity" makes no sense to me. How is a telephone call publicity of any kind? It's one person talking to a phone bank operator who is going to hang up the phone and move to the next call.

Working with grass-roots organizations who have the ear of the politicians who are in power is the way to go.

completely worthless ideas of how to change things? You need a summer at Camp Wellstone or something.

You don't want to design bumper stickers that people will actually READ, and you don't want to do anything but ridiculous armchair activism that changes NOTHING. While your heart is in the right place, your refusal to listen to common sense makes you spectacularly ill-qualified to be doing this crap.

You should be grateful that she even cooks a hamburger for you BASTARDS!

;)