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Fed up with low wages, fast-food workers strike in 60 cities, Part 2

September 7, 2013

"The fast-food workers are fighting for all of us,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of SEIU. “SEIU members, like all service sector workers, are worse off when large fast-food and retail companies are … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Fast Food, Living Wage, Low Wage Workers, SEIU, Strike

Fed up with low wages, fast-food workers strike in 60 cities, Part 1

August 30, 2013

Thousands of fast-food workers in 60 cities walked off their jobs Thursday in the largest-ever strike to hit the $200 billion fast food industry — septupling the number of cities from earlier … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Fast Food, Strike

Nationwide movement for a living wage strikes Milwaukee

May 17, 2013

Fast food workers in Milwaukee walk off the job, call for wage increase, right to a union without retaliation Inspired by recent workplace actions in New York City, Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit, … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: AFL-CIO, Fast Food, Living Wage, Low Wage Workers, Strike

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