Interview: Kansas City Fast Food Fair Wage Fighter Goes To Washington

A thoughtful conversation about the "fight for $15" and upcoming testimony that tragically leaves out the rise of automation and workers downsized to avoid paying higher costs. Read more:

A Kansas City Activist Takes The Minimum-Wage Fight To Washington

When Terrence Wise testified in front of Congress on Feb. 7, it wasn't the first time he'd visited Washington. The minimum-wage worker and organizer introduced former President Barack Obama at a 2015 Worker Voice Summit at the White House.

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  1. Yeeeeeah dat Obama hope and changey stuff.

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  2. Learn to Code!


    LOL

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  3. And what do you do now that you've gone from fast food to technology?

    Oh I code popups that tell people their adblocker is interfering with our company's revenues.

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  4. Missouri voted for a minimum wage hike. What more does he want. I guess it's the fight for $20 now?

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  5. HELPLESS AND HOPELESS

    Terrence Wise has 20+ years working in fast-food and he's still a minimum wage bot?

    The guy's gotta be mentally-challenged.

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  6. common sense2/13/19, 9:11 PM

    Since ancient times, the market determines one's worth. Always will. Employers have always paid only what they have to, to realize a profit. That isn't going to change. It doesn't make them mean. It's simply basic business. Acquire a skill the market is willing to pay for. No valuable skill = a corresponding low compensation. Even college grads with general non-demand degrees are flipping burgers, while paying off heavy student loan debt. Plumbers, electricians and skilled tradesman are making more money than grads with worthless degrees. Wise up.

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  7. Who’s paying for all these trips to Washington? Room and board? Food? He’s a paid puppet for somebody that’s for damn sure.

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  8. 8:41 He makes up the difference by getting paid by the SEIU. It would not be in either one of their interests for him to go full time or management.

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  9. So much for Kraske, "journalist", for offering two sides to a story.

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  10. Minimum wage hikes decrease the amount of available jobs and lead to more unemployment. Sure getting $15 an hour at wendy's is pretty sweet but employers will be a lot more stingy with who they hire and the amount they hire. This is basic economics so it's no surprise liberals don't understand it

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