Unhappy Meal: Fast-Food Workers Want Unions, Like Their Elders
Above: Olivia Roffle, a fast-food worker in St. Louis, distributes fliers to Papa John’s customers about working conditions there.Labor Tribune A largely [...]
Hungry for Fair Pay, Fast Food Workers Push Back
...nd activists rallied outside the McDonald’s on SW 6th and Main on December 5 as part of a national day of action. Portland was one of a hundred cities in the country that saw people [...]
A Major Fast Food Strike is Coming to 100 Cities This Week
Above: A Major Fast Food Strike is Coming to 100 Cities This WeekImage Credit: AP This Thursday, December 5th a nationwide strike for $15 an hour minimum wages at fast [...]
Low Paid Fast-Food Workers Require $7 Billion a Year in Public Aid
Above: Fast Food Strike August, 29, 2013 Photo: AFL CIO More than half of employees working at the largest fast-food chains in the U.S. are [...]
Stop Fast Track: Over 40,000 Phone Calls & 600,000 Emails To Congress
...hanks to widespread opposition, but we’re not taking any chances,” said Ronnie Cummins International Director of the Organic Consumers Association. “We must stop trade deals [...]
Fast-Food Workers Kick Off Global Labor Action
...in the United States and more than 30 other countries. The protesters are demanding better pay in a global rallying cry against rising income inequality, continuing on the heels of an [...]
Unionization Is Next Step For Fast Food Workers
.... All the way from Tokyo, Japan, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and even Stateside in cities like Chicago and Philadelphia, they want a living wage of $15 an hour and the right to unionize [...]
Largest Fast Food Strike Yet, Walk Out in Michigan
Organizers estimate that as many as 400 workers at more than 60 fast food restaurants in the Detroit metro area walked off the job on Friday, in what may be the largest [...]
Low Wage Workers Fast Food Forward Campaign
...ady old and I’ve gotta stay with them because I can’t afford to get a place of my own.” Beyond just better wages, the workers at the forefront of the FFF campaign are [...]
Oregonians Are ‘Mad as Hell’ About Trade Deals
...now, also spoke out against fast track, saying: “Americans have the right to know what is in our food and in these agreements.” How [...]
SOTU: President’s Base Opposes Fast Track, TPP
...Trade Association Energy Action Coalition Environmental Investigation Agency Episcopal Network for Economic Justice Fair World Project Family Farm Defenders Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance [...]
Fast Food Strikes Hit 100 Cities Thursday
Demonstrators hold signs and chant slogans outside of a Wendy’s fast food restaurant, April 4, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) [...]
Fast-Food Protests Grow as Workers Demand End to ‘Starvation’ Wages
...ithout retaliation. Photograph: John Minchillo/AP McDonald’s and KFC employees, struggling to support families, lead protests over pay and conditions McDonald’s in New York‘s [...]
Fast Food Workers Striking in Seattle
Beginning at 10:30 PM Pacific Time Wednesday, workers at dozens of Seattle fast food locations plan to strike, launching the nation’s seventh work stoppage by fast [...]
Fast Food Strikes Fight Junk Wages – For All of Us
...home in other American cities where the cost of living continues to rise but the minimum wage has flatlined. On the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death on April 4, [...]