fast-food strike

Fast Food workers fed up with low pay stopped taking orders so that they could make their demands today. Many McDonald’s workers are only making…

A couple of generations of school kids have grown up on the catchy McDonald’s advertising jingle, “You deserve a break today.” But during every working moment of those years McDonald’s workers have gotten anything but a break when it comes to working hours and worse, their wages for those hours. The Bureau of Labor Statistics […]

Just five years ago, 56-year-old Army veteran Morris Cornley was doing more than getting by. He earned about $17 an hour as a union truck driver, a salary sufficient enough to make ends meet and have a little extra. But when the economy hit rock bottom four years ago, he lost his job and couldn’t […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-food customers in search of burgers and fries on Thursday might run into striking workers instead. Organizers say thousands of fast-food workers are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the country, part of a push to get chains such as McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Wendy’s to pay workers […]