Thousands of fast food workers are expected to stage protests Thursday outside of restaurants such as McDonald’s, Burger King and Domino’s in a coordinated push for higher pay.
Backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), fast food workers in 150 cities plan to walk off the job and pick up picket signs to demand that they be paid no less than $15 per hour. It will be the seventh strike organized by the Fast Food Forward campaign since November 2012, when the campaign began.
“At Thursday’s strike, fast food restaurants will see firsthand that workers are willing to do whatever it takes to win $15 and union rights,” said Kendall Fells, the organizing director at Fast Food Forward, which receives funding from the SEIU.
Business groups and franchises are pushing back on the campaign, arguing an increase in the minimum wage would be bad for the economy and ultimately hurt workers.
Having been in three Butchers unions, all failed due to theft among it’s officers. Latter to be thrown into United Commercial Food Workers. There all a bunch of crooks. The apprenticeship program has all but been removed, now there are “clerks” or what was once called a Meat Wrapper. Clerks do everything at the groceries store meat dept except….Cut meat, because meat cutters make so much more money compared to the clerk, The “Butcher/Meatcutters are no longer allowed to talk with the customer, face the meat display, just keep your head down and cut! If and when the industry can, all cutting will be done at the wholesaler thus ending the Butcher/Meatcutter at the store that would give advice and quality service to the customer. What progress results from a union that causes the retailer stop training young apprentice due to affordability ? I don’t even want to describe what happened to my pension,Theft would be a consideration maybe….
All a union amounts to is a socialist operation operating within a republic. I’m so looking forward to the $5.00 value burger!