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New San Francisco billboard warns workers they’ll be replaced by iPads if they demand a fair wage
BY PAUL CARR
Its message that minimum wage increases will lead to service workers being replaced by apps is continued on an accompanying website BadIdeaCA which claims to be holding activists accountable for minimum wage consequences.
So who the hell pays for billboards threatening waitstaff with redundancy if they demand a living wage? A bit of digging and clicking reveals that the campaign is backed by Employment Policies Institute, the conservative lobbying group which regularly campaigns on behalf of the restaurant industry.
Followers of Pandos Techtopus might remember the Institute for one of its key advisers, Kevin Murphy, aka the man Silicon Valleys CEOs turn to when they want to justify screwing workers. As Mark Ames explained back in February
[W]hen the heads of companies like Apple, Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit, Microsoft and others, are called upon to explain why its okay to screw over employeesor their consumersthey know exactly who to call
Murphy has a long history of trying to convince courts that workers are not being screwed and that dominant monopoly corporations are good citizens, despite evidence to the contrary.
Its somehow grossly fitting that a group which argues for screwing service staff and which is advised by a guy who tells companies like Apple that its ok to screw their workers is now posting ads in San Francisco saying that service staff deserve to be replaced by iPads if they demand a fair wage.
http://pando.com/2014/07/17/new-san-francisco-billboard-warns-workers-theyll-be-replaced-by-ipads-if-they-demand-a-fair-wage/
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New San Francisco billboard warns workers they’ll be replaced by iPads if they demand a fair wage (Original Post)
n2doc
Jul 2014
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Blue Owl
(50,271 posts)1. And those iPads will only be allowed 6 minutes of bathroom time per day
n/t
Pholus
(4,062 posts)2. It'll have to be unilaterally implemented...
Because I think I pay inflated restaurant prices for an experience and the social aspect is a big part of it.
frylock
(34,825 posts)3. will the ipad also bring the food to my table?
Joe Magarac
(297 posts)4. It won't be with an iPad, but I would not be surprised ...
... to see a lot of automation in the kitchen.
Fast food employment was never a career for a breadwinner, even in the best of times.
The underlying problem isn't low pay in the fast food business, it's the lack of real industrial jobs.