Catherine Rampell is speaking smartly in her angry column on the systematic wage theft that goes on in fast food and other low wage industries: Take Ashley Cathey, 25, a six-year McDonald’s employee who participated in a national one-day strike last December. A couple of...
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Timothy Noah has a good run-down of wage theft in fast food and the role franchising plays in it: What’s unusual here aren’t the claims of labor law violations, which.
Sasha Abramsky with a valuable look into the life of one fast food striker demanding a $15 an hour wage. You know what she wants that she can't have? Fruit..
Today is the largest mobilization of fast food workers in history, with workers across the country engaging in a one-day strike. The basic demand is a $15 an hour wage. SEIU has played a major role in spurring this movement, even though it has little...
Read Josh Eidelson's piece on fast food strikes. Fast food workers in seven cities will engage in one-day strikes over the next 4 days, starting with New York today. Among.
An excellent Mark Bittman op-ed about the true cost of food upon those who produce it. Bittman talks about the fast-food strikes of the last few weeks and how only.
In our part-time and contingent reality, where workers can't get 40-hour a week jobs even at the minimum wage, what they really need is their bosses giving them advice on how to live off their meager hours, multiple jobs, and low wages. [PC] I have...
I shouldn't be surprised by Kevin Drum defending the McDonald's budget for its workers, but it's pretty irritating. Moreover, his defense is awful weak, as is that of Tim Lee.
That McDonald's. It's such a sweet New Gilded Age corporation, helping its employees learn how to live on its minimum wage salaries. Here's the sample budget journal: As Robyn Pennacchia.