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Fast Food Strike for Minimum Wage Increase

Conflict Paper Outline

Conflict: Fast Food Strike for Minimum Wage Increases

 

Intro:

v  What is minimum wage?

  • Clearly define minimum wage

v  Background info on minimum wage

  • Thoroughly digest the beginning of set wages
  • How much, when, who
  • The gradual increase of wage
  • The end of wage increase

Body Paragraph(s) 1:

v  Who’s suffering on low wages now?

  • Give list of corporations that start off with low wages

v  Introduce Conflict

  • Fast food Strike for minimum wage increases
  • What they (employees) are fighting for?
  • What they (owners) are fighting against?

Body Paragraph(s) 2: Employee Claim

v  What they (employees) are fighting for?

  • Higher pay (atleast $15/hr)
  • Right to unionize

v  Why they are fighting?

  • Hard to maintain and provide on low pay
  • Have to care for families
  • Living paycheck to paycheck

v  Who are they?

  • College dropouts
  • Students with some college education
  • High school graduates
  • Teenagers
  • Adults 25+

Body Paragraph(s) 3: Owner Claim

v  What they (owners) are fighting against?

  • $15/hr is unfeasible

v  Why they are against?

  • Unfeasible
  • Unfeasible wage increase means huge consumer price increase
  • Less workers would be needed
  • Harder to give equal hours

Body Paragraph(s) 4: Bigger Conflict

The bigger conflict is that the government is not keeping the wage cohesive with the inflation of the cost of living. Even though the government took care of major unemployment issues, people are still struggling horrendously while employed. But the government is afraid that increasing wage will influence another recession, more detrimental than the one the government is still recovering from.

Conclusion:

v  Will there be a compromise?

  • President Obama is trying to get congress to pass on increasing wage to $9/hr
  • Increase in wage is expected to come soon

v  My Claim: Bending a little can eventually benefit a lot. The employees are asking for a rather larger amount, but $9 maybe $10 is more than feasible for the huge fast food franchises. Increasing minimum wage would have to come eventually, so $9/hr is not a wage that will put the government or fast food franchises in any major danger of failure.

v  Closing statements