Fast Food Workers Super-Size Their Walkout

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Fast-food workers demanding a livable wage of $15 an hour are pushing for a nationwide walkout on August 29, leading, fittingly enough, into Labor Day Weekend.

The campaign, which began in New York City in March and has since spread sporadically to other cities, is aimed at lifting wages from what campaign organizers say is a median of less than $9 an hour, an unlivable level just about anywhere in the country. More significantly, they also seek protections for workers seeking to organize unions at the worksites.

The targets are the biggest and best-known chains, including McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, and KFC, among others. It’s unclear whether they include chains such as the California-based In-N-Out Burger, which pays a starting wage of $10.50 an hour, or stand-alones like Detroit’s Moo Cluck Moo, which pays workers $12 an hour.

“I wasn’t tuned in to the whole living-wage movement,” Moo Cluck Moo co-founder Harry Moorhouse recently told The Daily Beast. “We just felt that, for a variety of reasons, it was the right thing to do.” And it’s been effective at supporting worker morale and job performance. “What we found is that they are much more tuned in to their jobs. They work a lot more efficiently. They take direction pretty easily.” .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/fast_food_workers_super-size_their_walkout_20130820/?ln

[NightWatcher]

1. Pay a decent wage and maybe they won't put their dick on the food

Just sayin, Subway

[TheDebbieDee]

2. +1 Lol!

[JRLeft]

3. Hopefully it is successful.

[gopiscrap]

4. Excellent

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Solidarity! n/t

[PETRUS]

6. K&R