Fast Food Workers In 7 Cities Go On Strike For $15-An-Hour Pay
Fast Food Workers In 7 Cities Go On Strike For $15-An-Hour Pay
Jul 29, 2013 Jack Flash
Excerpted from Salon: This morning marks the start of what will likely be the largest fast food worker mobilization in U.S. history, with a New York City walkout today kicking off strikes in seven cities over four days. These work stoppages by non-union workers are the latest escalation in an embattled labor movement's unprecedented challenge to the overwhelmingly non-union industry, whose ranks are growing and whose conditions are spreading elsewhere in the U.S. economy. Keep reading
Excerpted from The Los Angeles Times: Hundreds of fast food workers around the country are walking off their jobs Monday to raise support for $15-an-hour pay.
Advocacy groups such as Fast Food Forward organized strikes in New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Mo., and Flint, Mich., to protest the $7.25 federal minimum wage.
Demonstrators, coming from jobs in mega-chains such as McDonald's and KFC, are also seeking the right to form unions without retaliation.
Strikes from industry workers have intensified in recent months.
Quick service employees in New York earn only a quarter of the money they need for survival, according to Fast Food Forward.
The Economic Policy Institute, which is known for its liberal bent, said last month that chief executives at the nation's top restaurant companies earn more in one morning than the average minimum-wage worker in their eateries makes all year.
Head honchos get $11.9 million a year on average, including options, while full-time employees earn $15,080, according to the group. Keep reading
Fast Food Workers In 7 Cities Go On Strike For $15-An-Hour Pay
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