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 [...]
...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 [...]
...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: [...]
...icago, to Perrysburg, Ohio. Over 100 people nationwide participated in the fast. Fasters also wrote letters to the detainees and [...]
...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 [...]
...-stifling “free trade” agreements by stopping President Obama from getting Fast Track trade authority. In fact, we have a chance to bury [...]
...t Track vote Oregon labor unionists don’t seem likely to forget the recent Fast Track vote in Congress any time soon. The [...]
...the people and protection of the planet come last. Backlash in Congress to Fast Track Baucus announced last March that he would deliver [...]
...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 [...]
...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 [...]
...le ruling, the arduous path to unionizing en masse at McDonald’s—and other fast food chains—would have at least become legally [...]
...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 [...]
...onomy where the odds are increasingly stacked against them. Beginning with fast-food restaurant strikes in New York City last November, the campaign [...]
...was behind the invention. But the real target customers for GMO apples are fast-food restaurants and food service [...]
...not had a way of capturing momentum from one-off spontaneous protests like fasts.” Without translating the gains of fasting [...]
...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 [...]