First the manufacturing jobs went away, then IT, and now this:<\/p>\n
The McDonald’s restaurant in Hermiston, Oregon appears to be “outsaucing” customers drive-thru meals.<\/p>\n
The restaurant on Highway 395 has outsourced one of the most important jobs at the drive-through window — order taking.<\/p>\n
When a customer drives through, they’ll be patched through to Grand Forks, North Dakota to place the order. Why? Because the minimum wage in North Dakota is $5.15, compared to Oregon’s $7.25.<\/p>\n
Tim Nesbit is head of Oregon AFLCIO. He says this undercuts Oregon’s minimum wage by more than $2 an hour.<\/p>\n
A McDonald’s media relations person in Illinois, where the corporate headquarters is based, never returned a phone call to the [Associated Press]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First the manufacturing jobs went away, then IT, and now this: The McDonald’s restaurant in Hermiston, Oregon appears to be “outsaucing” customers drive-thru meals. The restaurant on Highway 395 has outsourced one of the most important jobs at the drive-through window — order taking. When a customer drives through, they’ll be patched through to Grand … Continue reading “McDonald’s outsourcing your drive-thru orders”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}