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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.[qh]
今天，我们来看看麦当劳以及发生在全国各地快餐店和零售店的工人起义。 [qh]
So, Greg, you found yourself recently in Bradford, Pennsylvania.[qh]
格雷格，你最近去了宾夕法尼亚州的布拉德福德。 [qh]
It's a pretty small town, but they have a very busy McDonald's, where the pay started at just $9.25 an hour. [qh]
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。[qh]
What was it like for the people who worked there?[qh]
那里工作的人们感觉如何? [qh]
It was stressful for them. [qh]
这对他们来说压力很大。[qh]
I think they felt like they were underpaid and overworked and mistreated, often by their bosses and their customers.[qh]
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。[qh]
I think they felt invisible and looked down upon. [qh]
我想他们觉得被忽视，被人看不起。 [qh]
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. [qh]
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。 [qh]
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. [qh]
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。 [qh]
There was that same sort of bond between them. You know, you're in close quarters.[qh]
他们之间也有同样的联系。你知道，你在一个紧密的团体里。 [qh]
It's a somewhat stressful job, especially when the drive-through line starts to back up, you know?[qh]
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？[qh]
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.[qh]
所以你在做一件很快的事。 这是一种常见的任务。这就是它让我想起的一点。 [qh]
And what did people tell you about what their lives were like?[qh]
人们告诉你他们的生活是什么样子的? [qh]
Even in a place like Bradford, $9.25 an hour is not enough to survive.[qh]
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。 [qh]
One of the workers, Matthew Arndt -- he was making a little more than $9.25 an hour.[qh]
其中一名员工马修·阿恩特的时薪仅略高于9.25美元。 [qh]
I think he was up to $9.50 an hour, but it wasn't enough for him to survive.[qh]
我想他的工资是每小时9.5美元，但这不足以维持他的生计。 [qh]
Well, that place was just a strain on my mental health, really. [qh]
那个地方对我的心理健康造成了压力，真的。 [qh]
The customers -- they would, like, just scream at us for the wrong orders. [qh]
顾客，他们会因为我们点错了菜而对我们大吼大叫。 [qh]
They were giving us crappy money. And so it was, like, stressful, mentally and physically.[qh]
他们给我们的钱很少的可怜。 所以精神上和身体上都很有压力。 [qh]
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. [qh]
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。[qh]
There was another guy named David Putnam, who has epilepsy that prevents him from driving. [qh]
还有一个叫大卫·帕特南的人，他患有癫痫，不能开车。[qh]
He has a 2-1/2-year-old son that he was raising by himself.[qh]
他有一个两岁半的儿子，由他自己抚养。 [qh]
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. [qh]
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。 [qh]
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.[qh]
所以我很累。 我患有癫痫，当我睡眠不足的时候，在工作时我也会偶尔发作几次。 [qh]
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. [qh]
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。[qh]
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.[qh]
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。 所以他不得不依靠这个。 [qh]
