Opinion

Why stop at $15, fast-food workers?

Posted September 16, 2014 12:01 am

Once again, we are having demonstrations from fast-food workers demanding $15 per hour. Do they realize this equates to about half again as much as a new pilot makes working for a regional airline?

Do they feel that their skills and responsibilities are greater than a pilot who has invested years of his or her life and hundreds of thousands of dollars to even get to the point where they are considered for the job?

There are lots of people with hard-won skills and great responsibility who don't make $15 per hour. Shouldn't pay reflect how hard it is to find someone who has the skills necessary to do the job? But I guess as long as it's someone else's money and you don't have to take responsibility for what meeting your demands does to anyone else in the economy, why not demand $15? For that matter, why not $25, or maybe $50 per hour?

Tom Kupferer

Naperville

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