Honored to have visitors from @Show_Me15 in our class @wustl this morning. Will be tweeting knowledge shared.
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Learning about how $7.25 is a poverty wage at McDonald's (and everywhere). Can't afford to live on our own @Show_Me15
— Bret Gustafson (@bretgustafson) February 17, 2015If you 'call off' because child is sick, they punish you. Hard workers, on time, every day, this happens, they get rid of you @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015To go from a union job to a fast food restaurant, it's terrible. No respect for workers. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015If you want us to get off of government support, pay us a living wage. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Can't afford to raise on a family on minimum wage. We will win the fight in the end. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015I started saying "somebody needs to form a union". Then we heard about 'Fight for 15'. Now we're in it until it's over @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Twenty dollars only buys you a bag and a half of groceries. School supplies? Rent? Every check you get paid to pay out.
@Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Take your daughter to the movies? Can't afford the time or the money. Working every day for nothing @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015There is power in numbers. We couldn't talk before. Now it's in whispers. Getting louder and louder. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015The company intimidates you, try to make you stray from the course. They don't want you to organize. No days off. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015You have to stay focused. People will try to steer you off course. The thing is, it's 'big business.' @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015I've seen both faces at McDonald's: The smiling (Ronald) face. And the back-room evil face. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015People need these jobs. Just want fairness. We are Robin Hood. Shake hands with the king, we are one with the peasants. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Do you know how much it costs to make a Big Mac? 25 cents. That means you're making $$$ hand over fist. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015We're going to be there and we're going to come in numbers. We're going to shut you down. Quick. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Not fair. We give blood, sweat, and tears every day, they fire us if we need to take care of our kids. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015This is a global movement of low-wage workers. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Wage theft. Racial discrimination. Sexual harassment. Wonderful way to run a company. No benefits. Poverty wage @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015When you come up to the drive-thru and you wonder why the person in the window has an attitude? That's why. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Treat people well, they work well. Disrespect people with poverty wages = no respect. Treat people how you want to be treated @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015In stores that are organized, managers know that they cannot mistreat workers. Moral economy at work? @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Solidarity on April 15 counts. Students back up workers. Be brave, they are risking poverty wage jobs. What are you risking? @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Can't talk about economic justice without talking about racial justice. @Show_Me15 #Ferguson
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Can't afford to do anything on this wage. Go in circles. Stuck in a rut. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Even if business owners are African American like us, they act like business people. They treat us like we are Third World. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015The only way they'll change is if we form a union and stay knelt down with them. They are very sneaky. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015It's pretty simple. The are cheap. They are penny pinching when they make all this money. It's not fair. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015You need time off. A personal day to defunk yourself from the business. Take a personal day in this job? They'll fire you. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015There's no middle-class any more. Just poor and rich. We just want a modest living. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015They say why are you going to pay a union dues? So we know that somebody has our back. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Language of low-wage labor: Write you up. Don't call off. No personal days. Daily disciplinary routines. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015They want to keep using you until you're all used up. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Look at the bigger picture. They are trying to hide things from you. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015When @Show_Me15 first started off. They told us: Don't let them talk to the workers. Made a rule: employees couldn't sit in lobby on break.
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Like a dictatorship. No democracy. They wanted to dictate your break. They want to keep you in the dark. Until you organize. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015This. @Show_Me15 pic.twitter.com/8db8dQZXyY
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015They try to hide everything from you. Want to keep you in the stall, away from the public. Want to keep you away from the truth @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015This is not a game. Deep emotions in this struggle. Our families' lives on the line. On the side of what is right against greed @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015These workers are brave, risking everything for a chance at a better life. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015Alum of @wustl testimony: Why I am involved? I see people fighting for poverty wage job. Why am I not doing anything? @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015We don't have a racial thing going on. We all want the same thing. @Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015"I've seen racism. I chose not to spread the hate. I try to see where they are coming from. Once we do, we see we are the same"@Show_Me15
— SLSProject (@slsproject) February 17, 2015
