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Omaha Steve

(99,504 posts) Thu Jul 17, 2014, 09:09 PM Jul 2014

Over A Thousand Fast-Food Worker Activists Expected At Chicago Convention July 25th

http://laborradio.org/2014/07/over-a-thousand-fast-food-worker-activists-expected-at-chicago-convention-july-25th/

Posted: July 17, 2014 by laborradio

By Doug Cunningham

More than 1,000 fast-food worker activists from around the country will gather in Chicago July 25th & 26th for their first-ever convention. SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison and the Rev. Dr. William Barber II will speak at the convention. The fast-food worker movement began in New York in 2012 when a couple of hundred workers walked off their jobs demanding higher wages and the right to form unions. The campaign has since spread around the country and around the world.

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Over A Thousand Fast-Food Worker Activists Expected At Chicago Convention July 25th (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 2014 OP

Good to hear - TBF Jul 2014 #1

TBF

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1. Good to hear -

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Fri Jul 18, 2014, 08:26 AM

Jul 2014

our manufacturing jobs are mostly gone - replaced by service (food, retail etc). These are jobs in which workers need to organize if they have any hope of a future. Really good to see these activists gathering.

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