Fast-food strikes set for cities nationwide

Yahoo! News ^ | 8/28/13 | Candice Choi and Karen Matthews - ap

[NormsRevenge]

NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-food customers in search of burgers and fries on Thursday might run into striking workers instead.

Organizers say thousands of fast-food workers are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the country, part of a push to get chains such as McDonald's, Taco Bell and Wendy's to pay workers higher wages.

It's expected be the largest nationwide strike by fast-food workers, according to organizers. The biggest effort so far was over the summer when about 2,200 of the nation's millions of fast-food workers staged a one-day strike in seven cities.

Thursday's planned walkouts follow a series of strikes that began last November in New York City, then spread to cities including Chicago, Detroit and Seattle. Workers say they want $15 an hour, which would be about $31,000 a year for full-time employees. That's more than double the federal minimum wage, which many fast food workers make, of $7.25 an hour, or $15,000 a year.

[onedoug]

If I went for fast food and it were unavailable due to a strike, I’d never do business with that outfit again.

[CutePuppy]

Expect a case of Occupy Fast Food Flat-out Fiasco resulting in a period of bad "indigestion" for many involved in this exercise.