麦当劳发生工人起义
日期:2021-12-23 10:30

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Today, we look at this one McDonald's and the worker rebellion happening at fast-food restaurants and retail stores around the country.

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So, Greg, you found yourself recently in Bradford, Pennsylvania.

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格雷格,你最近去了宾夕法尼亚州的布拉德福德Yz#03Mqs+q512Cxeb7

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It's a pretty small town, but they have a very busy McDonald's, where the pay started at just $9.25 an hour.

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这是一个非常小的城镇,但他们的麦当劳非常繁忙,在那里一开始的工资只有每小时9.25美元UpK8h^r;.g!Y-h

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What was it like for the people who worked there?

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那里工作的人们感觉如何?

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It was stressful for them.

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这对他们来说压力很大5javM4VQ5X0B_kI

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I think they felt like they were underpaid and overworked and mistreated, often by their bosses and their customers.

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我想他们觉得自己的工资过低,工作过度,而且经常受到老板和客户的虐待-*(36Tt3TJ#yE

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I think they felt invisible and looked down upon.

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But, in some ways, that sort of feeling of "us against the world" sort of bonds you together, and I think, in this case, it bonded them together as a group.

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但是,在某种程度上,那种“我们与世界对抗”的感觉将你们联系在一起,我认为,在这种情况下,这将他们作为一个团体联系在一起MRm*fK@4y%99d

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And I used to cover the military, and I've told people this -- that they struck me almost like a little bit of an infantry platoon.

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我曾经报道过军队,我告诉过人们——他们给我的感觉就像一个步兵团!X-fh=c~gjU

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There was that same sort of bond between them. You know, you're in close quarters.

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It's a somewhat stressful job, especially when the drive-through line starts to back up, you know?

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这是一份有点压力的工作,尤其是当免下车餐厅的队伍开始排起长队的时候 ,你知道吗?

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So you're doing something fast. And it's a sort of a common mission. And that's what it reminded me a bit of.

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And what did people tell you about what their lives were like?

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人们告诉你他们的生活是什么样子的?

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Even in a place like Bradford, $9.25 an hour is not enough to survive.

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即使在布拉德福德这样的地方,每小时9.25美元也不足以维持生计@A8z^1WgMLXOhQZT

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One of the workers, Matthew Arndt -- he was making a little more than $9.25 an hour.

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其中一名员工马修·阿恩特的时薪仅略高于9.25美元rDo3~%%Cles97

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I think he was up to $9.50 an hour, but it wasn't enough for him to survive.

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Well, that place was just a strain on my mental health, really.

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那个地方对我的心理健康造成了压力,真的~pgiLvLTBJK,O]

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The customers -- they would, like, just scream at us for the wrong orders.

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顾客,他们会因为我们点错了菜而对我们大吼大叫U=)sKbOy4R-k1

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They were giving us crappy money. And so it was, like, stressful, mentally and physically.

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He was living in a house with mold on the walls and a furnace that didn't work, which was going to lead to a second really cold winter for him.

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他住在一所房子里,房子的墙上长着霉菌,炉子也坏了,这将给他带来第二个真正寒冷的冬天![B*!_HKT_

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There was another guy named David Putnam, who has epilepsy that prevents him from driving.

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还有一个叫大卫·帕特南的人,他患有癫痫,不能开车rQNa,r|,.5,M]

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He has a 2-1/2-year-old son that he was raising by himself.

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他有一个两岁半的儿子,由他自己抚养_^wcvw+m*~5ZoO

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I didn't get much sleep, of course, because of the fact of working so much, but when I got home, I also tried to spend as much time with him as I could.

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当然,由于工作太忙,我睡得很少,但当我回到家时,我也尽量多陪陪他h+~*H[&(*^*]#A

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And so I was very tired. And I have seizures, as well, so when I get lack of sleep, I was having a couple of seizures at work once in a while, too.

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And, so, for him, even at $9.25 an hour, to pay his rent, to furnish his place, you know, which was furnished with rent-to-own furniture, you know, he still had to rely on these things called Blessing Boxes, which are little boxes that are scattered around Bradford where people leave food.

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所以,对于他来说,即使是每小时9.25美元,来支付他的房租,在房子里布置家具,你知道,这些家具是先租后买( rent-to-own)的,你知道,他仍然必须依靠这些被称为善事箱(Blessing Boxes)的东西,这些小盒子分散在布拉德福德周围,人们把食物放在那里*aJ4CaHzbjp+#WLf,8

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So if you need something to eat -- milk, eggs, bread -- you can go to the Blessing Box and grab something. And so he was having to rely on that.

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所以,如果你需要吃点东西——牛奶、鸡蛋、面包——你可以去福音箱拿点东西9FySXOLKv.x0&I。 所以他不得不依靠这个[2%xA=R~(BDAQCI5K

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