Friday, July 25, 2014

Fast food workers prepare to escalate wage demands

About 1,300 workers are scheduled to attend sessions Friday and Saturday at an expo center in Villa Park, Illinois, where they'll be asked to do "whatever it takes" to win $15-an-hour wages and a union, said Kendall Fells, organizing director of the national effort and a representative of the Service Employees International Union.

The union has been providing financial and organizational support to the fast-food protests that began in late 2012 in New York City and have included daylong strikes and a protest outside this year's McDonald's Corp. shareholder meeting that resulted in more than 130 arrests

Read more by clicking on the following: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fast-food-workers-prepare-escalate-wage-demands-051155333.html

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