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Tue May 13, 2014, 12:30 PM May 2014

Fast food protests to go global May 15

by: Mark Gruenberg
May 12 2014

NEW YORK - Fast food workers around the U.S., energized by past protests and fed up with low wages, erratic hours, no benefits and management wage theft, plan to take their protests global on May 15 in their latest one-day walkout.

Demonstrations are planned for New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and 147 other U.S. cities and also on five other continents, organizers from New York City-based Fast Food Nation told a May 7 press conference in midtown Manhattan.

The Service Employees support Fast Food Nation. Fast Food's leaders met with leaders of the International Union of Food, Agricultural and Restaurant Workers - a federation of 126 unions worldwide - to discuss strategy the week before the press conference.

The object of the protests is two-fold: To shame the employers - McDonald's, Burger King, Yum! Brands, KFC and others - into paying U.S. workers a living wage of $15 hourly, and to attain the right to organize without employer interference ...

More here: http://peoplesworld.org/fast-food-protests-to-go-global-may-1/

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