Category: Occupy Movement

Tags: fast-food, workers, strike, McDonalds, Burger, King, Taco, Bell, New, York, City, labor, rights, union

Fast food workers walked off the job New York City Thursday to hold a series of rallies and picket lines in what has been called the largest series of worker actions ever to hit the country's fast-food industry. Hundreds of workers at dozens of restaurants owned by McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell and others went on strike and rallied in a bid for fair pay and union recognition. Organizers with the Fast Food Forward campaign are seeking an increased pay rate of $15 an hour, about double what the minimum-wage workers are making. Workers and their allies demanded a wage that would let them support their families. Democracy Now! co-host Juan González spoke to many of the striking workers for his latest New York Daily News column, "One-day strike by fast-food workers at McDonald's, Burger King and other restaurants is just the beginning." Published on Nov 30, 2012 by democracynow

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