At a terrible time like this, we have to remember that the courts can actually do the right thing from time to time and we have to hold onto the small victories and take some heart from them. In-N-Out Burger Inc. violated federal labor law...
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Not sure if this isn't reading too much into the whole thing, but this is at the very least an interesting and somewhat provocative essay on fast food nostalgia, culminating.
This is the grave of J.R. Simplot. Born in 1909 in Dubuque, Iowa, the next year his family migrated west to Idaho, to homestead a farm in the Magic Valley,.
One of the many indignities low wage workers suffer is with their schedules. Whether the constant shift of their schedules week to week, reporting to work and being sent home after an hour if business is slow, and surprise scheduling are all practices that should...
I won't attack Andy Puzder for hiring an undocumented worker to clean his house, but I sure will attack for everything else, including how he treats his own workers. In.
Arby's, which is the worst fast food chain in the country if you except Sbarro's for not actually being food, has decided to offer deer on its menu. Yep, deer..
Personally, I'd protest KFC for its horrible food, but I guess this is also a reason to do so: For years, authorities under President Xi Jinping have stoked nationalistic sentiments in China as part of a larger campaign to push Chinese Communist Party ideology. Part...
It's completely ridiculous that it took the New York attorney general's office to force this to happen, but Jimmy John's is finally ending its practice of making its employees sign.
Not only is the pizza inedible, but Domino's also steals money from its already low-wage workers. The workers who assembled and delivered the pie clock their hours on a computer.
On the issue of consumer boycotts, the general rule should be that if affected workers are calling for it, then it's something we should support (the UFW grape boycott) and if it's consumers calling for it without consulting the workers, we should probably find out...
Turns out if you treat workers like humans, they work better. Who knew! Turnover is down, and customer service scores are up, company says. Last year, McDonald’s MCD -0.08% joined.
This is a good history of how the Fight for $15 started, how SEIU has promoted it, and the impact it has had on American political life. The groundwork for.