If you have forgotten what the face of the progressive socialist liberal Democrat party looks like, look no further then the SEIU strike of the fast food industry. The SEIU targets the people that can least afford to lose their jobs by promising them a new living standard which they know they can't deliver.
 
The end result is those that were employed will now be unemployed and forced to join the millions of others in dependence and poverty. Thank you SEIU and the Democrat party.
 
What The Fast Food Strike Is Really About
By Collin Roth (Right Wisconsin)
On Thursday, labor agitators will bring bullhorns and signs to fast food restaurants around the Milwaukee area to convince employees to strike and demand a $15.00 minimum wage and a union.
 
So, what are the chances that fast food employees will get $15.00 and a union? Almost zero.
 
So, what is this all about then?
 
The story behind the fast food strike originates in a Service Employee International Union (SEIU) initiative from 2011 called Fight For a Fair Economy. The Wall Street Journal reports the mission of the campaign:
The campaign—called Fight for a Fair Economy—will focus on mobilizing mostly low-wage minority workers in 10 to 15 cities, including Cleveland, Milwaukee, Miami and Detroit, according to the memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The SEIU wants the effort to peak in the summer of 2012, with events at primaries, town-hall meetings and other campaign venues, according to the memo.
 
SEIU spokeswoman Inga Skippings declined to confirm that the memo reflected the final plans of the union, which has two million members, and said its strategy continues to evolve.
 
The cities designated for the campaign have high concentrations of SEIU members and are in states where governors have proposed cutting benefits to public-sector workers amid worries over pension costs and broader budget woes. In some of the targeted states, lawmakers are considering "right to work" legislation that would eliminate laws making union membership mandatory whenever a union is formed at an employer.
One might notice that the cities mentioned in the plan are all cities that are being affected by the fast food strike. No coincidence.
 
The organizing group in Milwaukee is Wisconsin Jobs Now!, an SEIU front-group with a well documented past of political activity. The executive director Michael Lauer of Wisconsin Jobs Now! earns well over minimum wage - $130,792 according to federal labor documents.
According to Salon, the Occupy Wall Street uprising forced the SEIU to change tactics with the Fight for a Fair Economy campaign. According to an SEIU organizer in Oregon, "the labor movement has so far missed an opportunity in organizing the unemployed and underemployed." Hence, the shift to trying to organize fast food employees.
 
The fast food strikes have very little to do with helping workers get $15.00. In fact, the employees being convinced to walk off the job with the high likelihood of losing that job are simply being played by the labor agitators. 
 
These strikes and direct action protests are about expanding the ranks of the SEIU in order to recoup political power lost in states like Wisconsin. This is a play at relevancy - and unfortunately it takes advantage of low wage workers.