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: [...]
$15 Per Hour Is Not An Accident
...eek noted, “That $15 figure isn’t an accident. It’s been a rallying cry of fast-food workers and other low-wage employees [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]