Posted on 05/15/2014 6:37:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It started with a brief walkout at a few restaurants in New York City back in November 2012, but on Thursday the campaign against low pay at America's fast food restaurants morphed into a global push.
By 9 a.m., the organizing group FastFoodGlobal.org reported that two McDonalds outlets in New York City and one in Boston were shut down.
Hours ago, young workers in the Philippines staged a singing and dancing flash mob inside a downtown Manila McDonalds during the morning rush hour. Their choice of music was the song "Let It Go" from Frozen.
When the news from abroad started coming in, workers at a Seattle McDonalds walked out in solidarity.
A McDonalds restaurant in Mumbai, where workers are represented by a union, was shut down by protesters despite a threat of arrest, according to the organizing group FastFoodGlobal. Action was reported in Switzerland, Japan and South Korea.
Fast-food workers are expected to walk off their jobs in 150 cities from Oakland to Orlando. The protests will be a first for fast-food workers in Miami, Orlando, Philadelphia and Sacramento.
The events are intended to publicize the employees' demand for a $15-an-hour wage. The median pay nationwide for fast-food restaurant workers is $8.69 an hour.
Organized by a group called Fast Food Forward, the walk-outs are expected to hit only two or three restaurants in each city, all of them big name brands like McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC.
In an unusual twist, events in support of the U.S. protests are planned in 30 nations around the world, from Ireland to Morocco to Panama, where American fast-food restaurants have become a familiar sight.
The cooperative effort was organized by the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations
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This is going to be a GLOBAL EVENT.
There will be a teach-in at a McDonald’s corporate headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand, and flash-mobs inside five restaurants the Philippines.
A day later, Italian fast-food workers plan a national strike at fast-food restaurants in Rome, Milan and Venice.
And guess who is one of the prominent supporters of this movement? FORMER CLINTON LABOR SECRETARY Robert Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
P E R F E C T !!
Who wants to lay odds that the “fast food” organization mentioned is directly tied to a union and indirectly tied to the WH. 0 seems to be doing everything he can to annihilate the U.S. economy...
The ignorance and stupidity of people who work for minimum wages at fast food restaurants is on worldwide display............................
I say, the restaurants which employ these protesters should just fire the whole lot of them. Don’t show up for work on Thursday? Kiss your job goodbye.
Hey you guys who need jobs. Now here’s your opportunity.
These morons want to price their jobs right out of the market. European McD’s are already going to self-serve kiosks.
Automation will replace the workers soon. They are motivating the market.
I may have to plan a few family meals at Chic-fil-a. They won’t strike.
Betting Chick Fil A is fully staffed.
Why don’t these individuals simply find a better paying job or start their own business?
The fast food industry is shooting themselves in the foot.
It has literally been years, since I have eaten at a fast-food place.
I used to go nearly every morning.
My point is all it takes is a change in your routine. That is all.
Its been years since I ate fast “food”.
I can make my own damn sammich thank you.
They should all be fired if they don’t show up for work.
Reich needs to grow up.
And these are the same guys who call Tea Party anarchists because they stand up against the corrupt establishment. At least we’re not doing something that’s going to hurt everyone’s pocketbook when they go to the grocery stores and find the prices have gone up anywhere from 25 - 50%...
Most McDonald’s are locally owned businesses DBA as McDonald’s. Liberals don’t support local business.
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