Fast-Food Wage Protests
Despite dwindling numbers, Big Labor has a winning new strategy
With the signing into law Monday of a $15 minimum wage in both California and New York, American unions — more particularly, the Service Employees International Union — have demonstrated that they've found a new way to bargain on workers' behalf. Blocked by dysfunctional labor laws from organizing workers on the job, they've become adept at winning victories for them through the political process.
When SEIU and a band of 200 New York City fast-food workers began the Fight for 15 in 2012, their goal was to unionize the sector, beginning with the industry giant, McDonald's. That goal is as elusive today as it was then, but the campaign has nonetheless begun to transform the lives of...
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Despite dwindling numbers, Big Labor has a winning new strategy
With the signing into law Monday of a $15 minimum wage in both California and New York, American unions — more particularly, the Service Employees International Union — have demonstrated that they've found a new way to bargain on workers' behalf....
Published in Los Angeles Times on April 07, 2016 — Print headline: "Big Labor's new strategy - Blocked from organizing workers on the job, unions have become adept at winning victories through the political process."
Nearly 1,000 in L.A. join nationwide protests for $15 minimum wage
Nearly 1,000 fast-food workers, Wal-Mart employees and union members in Los Angeles joined nationwide protests Wednesday calling for a $15 minimum wage.
The protest, which also called for unionizing fast-food workers, started in front of a McDonald's on...
Dozens arrested nationwide in rallies for higher minimum wage
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 arrested 10 people after the protesters linked arms and sat down in...
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.
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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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
Stepping up from flipping burgers
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