Fast food and other minimum wage workers protest in major cities over pay

[LongTomH]

Source: The Guardian

Thousands of workers in the airline, fast-food, home-care and federal industries have joined together to strike on Thursday in major cities across the US, in support of the campaign to get a $15 minimum wage.

Workers chanted things like “Low pay is not OK” outside fast-food restaurants, attracting support. Home care workers stood alongside fast-food workers marching outside McDonald’s locations as the groups unite to fight for higher wages.

Federal workers are striking in Washington DC, demanding that President Obama encourage federal buildings to set a $15 minimum wage, improve benefits and give them collective bargaining rights.

Contract workers from landmark buildings like the Capitol and the Pentagon, the Smithsonian museums and Union Station were set to take part in the protest. It was scheduled to be the 11th protest for these workers, who are operating under the group name of Good Jobs Nation.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/04/us-minimum-wage-workers-protest-across-the-us-for-higher-pay

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Please note that the rallies are getting international attention.

[cstanleytech]

1. At this point I think such protests are not going to work

unless the protesters start going after the big suppliers for alot of the businesses in this country as well.
In other words the workers need to start contacting the suppliers like Coca~Cola, Pepsi, Nabisco, Kraft Foods, Heinz and many others and tell them to get behind the workers and support their cause for a raise and or their products will be boycotted.

[okaawhatever]

2. Good for them. These protests are getting bigger and bigger. Soon they will be impossible to ignore.

It won't happen overnight, but eventually people will get the message.

[Earth_First]

3. "WHAT'S DISGUSTING? UNION BUSTING! WHAT'S THE RAGE? A LIVING WAGE!"

K&R in SOLIDARITY!