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“Fight for 15” takes to the streets in Chicago: Fast-food and retail workers demonstrate for raise beyond their lower-than $10 average wage
Posted by The Pump Handle on April 29, 2013
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Hundreds of workers at fast-food restaurants in Chicago staged a one-day walk-out last week calling for a $15 an hour wage.
The Hands that Feed Us: Most food industry workers earn low or poverty-level wages
Posted by The Pump Handle on August 29, 2012 A Food Chain Worker Alliance survey of food industry workers — including agricultural and farmworkers, food processing and slaughterhouse employees, and those working in food distribution and retail — found that 86% earned low or poverty wages.
A new kind of guide for restaurant diners: do the employees have sick leave, living wages?
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on December 1, 2011 The worker-led organization Restaurant Opportunities Center United released this month a new type of diners’ guide, one that focuses on working conditions for the employees at 180 restaurants nationwide. The US restaurant industry employs 10 million individuals and is the fastest growing sector in the economy. More than half of restaurant workers, however, earn less…