Fast food workers and their supporters staged walkouts and rallies across the country to protest low wages in the multibillion-dollar industry on Thursday. Frontline workers from McDonald’s,… Read more “Fast Food Workers Strike in More Than 100 U.S. Cities”
Category: Labor and Workers’ Rights
Black Friday Protesters Arrested at Walmarts Across the Country
From California to New Jersey, more than 100 protesters were arrested at Black Friday demonstrations against retail giant Walmart this holiday weekend. The protests came just a… Read more “Black Friday Protesters Arrested at Walmarts Across the Country”
Pizza Hut Manager Fired for Refusing to Open on Thanksgiving Gets Job Back
After more than 10 years on the job, a manager at an Indiana Pizza Hut and working-class-hero Tony Rohr, lost his job for refusing to open his store… Read more “Pizza Hut Manager Fired for Refusing to Open on Thanksgiving Gets Job Back”
McDonald’s to Low Wage Workers: “Quit Complaining”
McDonald’s — which rakes in billions of dollars in profits each year and notoriously pays its 700,000 workers poverty wages — is offering employees some advice for staying afloat,… Read more “McDonald’s to Low Wage Workers: “Quit Complaining””
Walmart Workers Strike: Two Videos; Six Seconds and Six Minutes
#WalmartStrikers in NYC get led off in handcuffs #LowPayIsNotOkay #FightFor15 https://t.co/OXTwAEarmp — Adam F. Hutton (@adamfhutton) September 5, 2013
Is McDonald’s Raising its Prices to Put a Wedge Between Striking Workers and Sympathetic Customers?
McDonald’s To Test ‘Dollar Menu And More’ Menu. Does anyone else think this might be a threat aimed at the consumer? Is McDonald’s trying to say, “If… Read more “Is McDonald’s Raising its Prices to Put a Wedge Between Striking Workers and Sympathetic Customers?”
Fast Food Workers Strike: A Social Media Perspective; And Two Confessions
I confess. I went to a Fast Food Forward protest yesterday to support striking workers… and then I went to McDonald’s. Sandwiched between the 50th Anniversary of… Read more “Fast Food Workers Strike: A Social Media Perspective; And Two Confessions”
The gloves come off: Bill introduced to prohibit laws to protect workers, improve workplace
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Ian Millhiser writes at ThinkProgress: More than three-quarters of the Senate Republican caucus signed onto legislation introduced Wednesday by Sens. Tom Coburn…