Coalition of Franchisee Associations

December 6, 2008

Crain's on McDonald's & Unions

Speaking of pouring money down a rat hole check
out how the PAC is spending Owner/Operator money!

And check out how Don Thompson is spending his!

Crain's Article is HERE

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16 comments:

Anonymous said...

The union would destroy McOpCo!!!

Anonymous said...

THOMPSON needs to be fired for treason against the system

Richard Adams said...

As far as I know there are very few business owners who support anti-business politicians. When a corporate employee supports such politicians it shows us they are not business people - just bureaucrats.

Anonymous said...

<"The union would destroy McOpCo!!!">

and how would this be a bad thing?

mrig

Anonymous said...

It is beyond outrageous that Don Thompson gave to Barack Obama the amount that he did. Do you ever suppose that anyone from the NLC would ask him why he did. It is truly beyond anything that we have seen so far. Where are you NLC, but after all we know where they are in Don Thompson's back pocket

Anonymous said...

The Government Relations Rep in the Raleigh Region (Hollar) actually supported Union loving Obama too. Why would any SMART businessperson support an ENEMY of his business??? Incredible !
And Dick Crawford, Govt Relations-Corp was a Democratic/Obama supporter/contributor too. Im done contributing to McPAC !!
These fools must have a death wish !

Anonymous said...

Unions will destroy 50% or more of the already dwindling value of our stores. Any Operator supporting Obama and the Dems is ......... insane.

Anonymous said...

Unions, mandatory employer paid health care, skyrocketing taxes, intense pressure from Corp to reinvest and add new products.It can only end with hundreds of operators going bankrupt. Thanks, DON !!!!

Anonymous said...

This proves Tompson does not understand the McD business or business model. I bet he's never even seen a store P&L.

Anonymous said...

Why does Skinner keep Thompson on? He should have been fired after his "harrasment" debacle , but this kind of anti-system donations should be inexcusable!!

Richard Adams said...

To be fair and accurate; the "harassment debacle"
mentioned did not involve Thompson. At least not
the one everyone knows about.

You are probably thinking
of Ralph Alveraz's
"harassment debacle"
when he was RM in
Sacramento CA.

The WSJ even mentioned
Ralph's stumble in 2006 -
here:

www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=67440

Anonymous said...

IN a recent east div roab, thompson stated he contbuted $30k to Democrats to "get a seat at the table"...If thopmpson thinks his $30k ranks equally with big labors millions he is delouisional at best. Skinner shouold can him NOW, if not Operators should demand his termination.

Richard Adams said...

That must insult the intelligence of the Owner/Operators in the room who buy a lot of media and who know how insignificant $30,000 would be in any presidential campaign.

Richard Adams said...

By the way, nobody's getting canned or terminated. Skinner has
the investors convinced that all is well at McDonald's and he wouldn't rock the boat with any changes, for any reason. As long as same store sales stay positive and you guys keep installing espresso machines the big guys in Oak Brook are safe.

Anonymous said...

Thompson sent out a system voicemail yesterday claiming that McD was NOT discouraging Unions.Not a word about his $30,000 donation to Obama and the Democrats. Thompson is not only treasonous in his support of enemies of the system(unions/democrats) but he is also a COWARD for not DEFENDING our stance on Unions as his position would require.

Anonymous said...

UNIONS have DESTROYED the steel industry, the airline industry, and the automobile industry.....Are we NEXT???
Thompson says YES