fast food workers
Labor group defends workers at military bases against right wing attacks
April 22, 2014The pay hike would start Jan. 1 under new contracts that fast food firms would sign with the military PXs, where military personnel and families buy food and goods at reduced rates.
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Hartford fast-food workers protest wage theft
April 8, 2014Fast-food workers and community and faith leaders protested systemic wage theft in the industry, just after the first-ever national poll of fast-food workers showed companies lare stealing money from 89 percent of their employees.
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My top 10 for 2013: political, personal and fun
December 17, 2013A couple of weddings, a few marches, sangria and football in snow: looking forward to new adventures in 2014.
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St. Louis hearing spotlights government subsidies of fast food giants
November 1, 2013ST. LOUIS - "We are here to help create a climate where the denial of workers' rights will not be tolerated," Joan Suarez, co-chair of the St. Louis Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board, said as...
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Fast food giants cost America $7 billion in McTaxes
October 16, 2013Two recently published reports shed damning light on the high cost of low wages in the fast food industry.
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