That page indicates a Big Mac meal (which includes a drink, too) starts at $9.80...

refurb · on Dec 5, 2019

If your going to convert to USD, you need to do the same for the wage. So about $13.60 USD per hr.

ceejayoz · on Dec 5, 2019

Fair enough. That still compares quite favorably to the US version's $7.25.

If unionization and a near doubling in minimum wage makes a hamburger, fries, and Coke cost $0.71 more, I think I can accept that.

larrywright · on Dec 5, 2019

I was basing it on the other meals, which were on the order of $11-13. A Big Mac meal isn’t $5.99 where I live so the gap feels larger to me.

Either way, I think that the assertion of “this thing worked over there so it will work the same way here” is overly optimistic. But ultimately I don’t much care - I rarely eat there, so if McDonald’s got very expensive or went out of business, it wouldn’t have much impact on my life. If they want to unionize, more power to them.

I’m not a fan of unions overall. I recognize that they’ve done some good things, but the people I’ve known who were in unions or worked in union shops don’t describe places that I’d want to work in.