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“The harder you work the better your pay will be” is what most people in today’s society think! Does this apply to all jobs or just the white collar workers who have obtained a master’s degree in some sort of business field? What about the unskilled workers in the fast food industry? Do these workers benefit from working hard? The corporate supervisors will tell the public yes, that indeed the unskilled laborers are benefitting from good pay and are working in a healthy environment. The supervisors will tell the public anything to keep the consumers of their products from knowing the few skeletons they have hidden in their freezers. Believe me most workers would say that they are doing a damn good job. Supervisors feed us all of this information for what they say is a wonderful organization with no negatives going on; when in reality there is a sinister side of their companies.
The subtitle to Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation: The Dark side of the All-American Meal brings to our attention the list of dirty laundry that exploits the poor by putting the lower class people in poor working conditions, keep the employees from being able to form a well-organized union, and causing physical harm to an employee’s body due to factory style methods the methods that this industry use in order to better benefit the company; not the workers. To sum these problems that are hidden from the citizens, “There is shit in the meat.” To be honest what really goes on in most of these working environments the public would be consummately against and would demand a change in how these companies run their workplaces.
The industry forces workers to toil long hours for minimum wage the adopted assembly line method, and has played a key role in keeping ...

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...d little knowledge about what goes on behind the handbook. The managers would have me work fourteen hour shifts every Saturday without a break and told me that we are a team so sacrifices have to be made to reach the restaurants full potential. Not only would I have to work long hours, managers wound demand that stay a few hours after I got off to help the others and clocked me out because the company frowned upon overtime. I find this to be a bunch of bullshit they were telling me and the rest of the employees.
These tactics are being used every day all across the country against unskilled workers who don’t want to lose their jobs. In order to fix these problems the workers should attack the corporations and gain moral support from the general public and demand that unions be organized increase minimum wage that is earned and try to improve the work environment.

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