Workers from fast food, health care, and other industries call for fair pay and respect.
Thousands of workers in several different low-pay industries—including fast food, airlines, and health care—staged protests throughout the country on Thursday to demand a $15 an hour minimum wage, improved benefits, and collective bargaining rights, marking the two-year anniversary of the movement that has come to be known as the Fight for
McDonald’s and other top fast food chains are being sued for unpaid wages and undocumented work. And while frontline employees struggle to earn fair wages, fast food CEOs are earning more profits than ever before while evading paying proper taxes.
In recent months, the questions about the fairness of fast-food workers’ pay have reached a fever pitch. In California, Michigan and New York, for example, McDonald’s and several of the company’s franchisees are being sued for wage theft. The lawsuits are claiming that hours were erased from employees’ timecards, the employees were required to pay
The protests are part of an effort that began about a year ago, calling for pay of $15 an hour, but the figure is seen more as a rallying point than a near-term possibility.
NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-food workers and labor organizers marched, waved signs and chanted in cities across the country on Thursday in a push for higher wages. Organizers say employees planned to forgo work in 100 cities, with rallies set for another 100 cities. But by late afternoon, it was unclear what the actual turnout was or how many of the
McDonald’s is devouring forestland in northern Minnesota in order to harvest potatoes.
McDonald’s is eating up portions of forestland in northern Minnesota, with plans to convert the land to harvest potato crops, a necessary component of the fast-food chain’s beloved french fries. Roughly 1,500 acres of forest land was sold by Potlatch Corporation, which runs paper mills, to Ronald Offutt, who is already converting the land to
Workers rights advocates in Minnesota say they have high hopes for a breakthrough in the state legislature.
Thousands gathered outside Walmart stores in 15 U.S. cities Thursday to protest low wages, poor benefits and intimidation in the largest demonstrations against the retailer since the protest on Black Friday in 2012. On a separate front, fast-food workers in Minnesota have not participated in any of the previous strikes, including the nationwide
Costco and In-N-Out Burger both defy the claim that higher wages comes at the expense of low prices.
Last week marked the largest surge of protests in the fast food industry as hundreds of workers walked off the job demanding $15 an hour and the right to form a union without fear of intimidation. It’s been the consistent demand among low wage workers for the past four months, some earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25. These strikes have been
