New Orleans Just maybe the publicity campaigns of the $15 per hour efforts by fast food and other workers are about to get serious. Steven Greenhouse in the Times reported that SEIU is claiming that “thousands” of the several hundred thousand home health care workers represented by the union are preparing to join upcoming actions and …
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Fast Food Tradeoff: Less Jobs for Living Wages
New Orleans In the national publicity one-day strikes for higher wages of $15 per hour that waved their banners in hundreds of cities around the country, no one really believes that the $15 per hour figure is anything other than a rallying cry or in bargaining terms, a first proposal. Organizers, including with the Service …
The Low Percentage Odds for Short-term Victory for Fast Food Workers
New Orleans In a somewhat perplexing article by Arun Gupta on fast food workers organizing featured in the December issue of In These Times, once the reader was able to get past the obvious, his feinted surprise, and anonymous ex-organizer interviews about recent fast food worker organizing (that these are publicity strikes, that they are …