: I am proud to be working in a organisation that is constantly in change and striving to improve guest conditions, worker conditions and profit. And I take it you are not proud of working for a company that exploits children through misleading adverts, perptrate cruelty against animals and pays low wages to its staff (according to the verdict of a recent trial).
: Without profit - no raised wages etc etc etc... I am a capitalist.
I never doubted that!
: You seem to be focusing on the different levels of pay that you can have at McDonald´s.
Of course! The court said McD pays low wages and you and other McD defenders say the opposite. So I was trying to find out the truth. You guys though get very defensive about the subject I wonder why?!
:I asked you how a company could work if you did not reward good efforts and raised wages in accordance to responsibilities.
I am not concerned about differential wages but rather what the real gap is between the profit McD makes and the salary it pays it's crew. This is why I asked you about the % of labour cost to turnover of store. You got me completely wrong on that issue and talked about turnover of staff instead. I was trying to find out what the actual average labour costs were for a shift compared with the total takings (earnings) of the store for that shift.
: in Sweden today, the union is more of an obstacle than a support. We have to find a middleway, with which everybody is "happy"
So even being a liberal manager does not stop you from being anti-union. I wonder what the middleway you are talking about is exactly - banning of union activity inside stores or intimidation of activists for example? And I am not being cynical here. These are things that do happen frequently at McD.
: I would guess that the union movement in the UK is still recovering from the wounds and repercussions of a certain Mr Scargill.
A certain Mrs Thatcher - whose labour policies you probably love - was much more instrumental in damaging TU movement in the UK than the leader of the coal miners union whose predictions about the plight of the industry at the hands of Thatcher's government turned out to be extremely accurate.
