Tomorrow: Fast Food Workers Prepare To Strike “For Our Dignity”
...sive one-day strike to protest low wages at very profitable companies. The fast food industry makes $200 billion in profits each year. McDonalds CEO [...]
NY Moves Toward $15 Minimum Wage For Fast Food Workers
...r and asked its members to determine an appropriate statewide wage for the fast-food industry. A press release from the Fight for $15 declared: [...]
A Brief History Of The Friday Fast For Justice
...icago, to Perrysburg, Ohio. Over 100 people nationwide participated in the fast. Fasters also wrote letters to the detainees and [...]
First Senate Vote On Fast Track For TPP On Tuesday
...te is scheduled on Tuesday at 2:30. If Reid succeeds in blocking a vote on fast track from going forward, then the fast track vote [...]
Letter To Trade Activists: While They Play Poker, Let’s Play Chess
...-stifling “free trade” agreements by stopping President Obama from getting Fast Track trade authority. In fact, we have a chance to bury [...]
Political Payback For TPP Fast Track Legislators Begins
...t Track vote Oregon labor unionists don’t seem likely to forget the recent Fast Track vote in Congress any time soon. The [...]
Popular Resistance Newsletter – TPP Toxicity Grows, We Can Stop It
...the people and protection of the planet come last. Backlash in Congress to Fast Track Baucus announced last March that he would deliver [...]
Now Is The Time: People’s Block Of Fast Track
...oss the country and around the world. In D.C., we are calling this the “No Fast Track People’s Block,” a constant stream of [...]
Fast-Food Workers Walk Off Jobs In ‘100 City’ Low-Pay Protest
...k, it makes me feel like a slave really.” Workers walked off their jobs at fast-food restaurants across the country Thursday as part of a [...]
NLRB Deals Major Blow To Fight For 15
...le ruling, the arduous path to unionizing en masse at McDonald’s—and other fast food chains—would have at least become legally [...]
Fast Food CEO Andy Puzder Has No Business As Labor Secretary
...ssistance NATIONWIDE – In the run up to the Senate confirmation hearing of fast-food CEO Andy Puzder as U.S. Secretary of Labor, cashiers and [...]
Low-wage Workers, Top-down Unions
...onomy where the odds are increasingly stacked against them. Beginning with fast-food restaurant strikes in New York City last November, the campaign [...]
USDA Approves ‘Untested, Inherently Risky’ GMO Apple
...was behind the invention. But the real target customers for GMO apples are fast-food restaurants and food service [...]
Yeb Saño’s Fast For Climate Offers Sanity Amid The Madness
...not had a way of capturing momentum from one-off spontaneous protests like fasts.” Without translating the gains of fasting [...]
Zeese And Flowers: TPP Fight Is NOT Over!
...We have talked to people in the various organizations who were in the Stop Fast Track coalition as well as on the ground activists since the vote on [...]