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Fast-food protests: Dozens of workers arrested in strike for higher pay
Dozens of fast-food workers from Los Angeles to Manhattan were arrested as they escalated a fight for better pay Thursday with strikes, rallies and acts of civil disobedience. Police took 10 people into custody after the protesters linked arms and sat down in front of a McDonald’s in downtown Los Angeles. The sit-in capped a midday march through the urban core by hundreds of workers and their supporters. In San Diego, 11 marchers were arrested for blocking an intersection in the blue-collar neighborhood of City Heights. They were cited for unlawful assembly and released. Ralllies and sit-ins occurred outside McDonald's restaurants across the country, including Rockford,...
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Fast-food protests: Dozens of workers arrested in strike for higher pay
Dozens of fast-food workers from Los Angeles to Manhattan were arrested as they escalated a fight for better pay Thursday with strikes, rallies and acts of civil disobedience.
Police took 10 people into custody after the protesters linked arms and sat...
Fast-food workers' minimum-wage protests go global
Fast-food workers around the world rallied for a higher minimum wage Thursday in what organizers called the largest such protest of its kind.
The movement, which began as a single walkout in New York in 2012 before sprawling across the U.S. last year,...
Fast-food workers rally worldwide for higher pay
Fast-food workers around the world rallied for a higher minimum wage Thursday in what organizers called the largest protest of its kind.
The movement, which began as a single walkout in New York in 2012 before spreading across the U.S. last year, sparked...
Rim fire: Some evacuation orders lifted; containment at 32%
With firefighters continuing to gain ground on the Rim fire burning into Yosemite National Park, authorities have lifted evacuation orders for Tuolumne City, west of the fire line.
Evacuation orders for communities off California 108 on the north and...
Stepping up from flipping burgers
Fast-food restaurant employees across the country walked off their jobs for a day last week, the largest in an escalating series of protests against the low wages paid by some of the nation's most popular restaurant chains. The workers' complaints throw a...
More than half of U.S. fast food workers on public aid, report says
More than half of families of fast food workers receive some sort of public assistance, costing the nation $7 billion a year, according to a new report distributed by a group that has been pushing for union representation and higher wages for fast food...
Fast-food workers protest for higher wages
Fast-food workers, union organizers and community supporters are expected to protest nationwide for higher pay Thursday as the restaurant industry criticizes the campaign as “part of an ongoing effort to replace fact with fiction while ignoring simple...
Fast-food protests over minimum wage continue in Silver Lake
Rallies over fast-food wages continued into the afternoon Thursday, with roughly 100 people congregating on the narrow sidewalk outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Silver Lake.
Many of the protesters were repeats from a morning event outside a...
Fast-food workers rally nationwide for higher wages
Fast-food workers, union organizers and community supporters rallied nationwide for higher pay Thursday amid criticism from the restaurant industry that the campaign was "part of an ongoing effort to replace fact with fiction while ignoring simple...
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