$15: The New Eight-Hour Day
Category: BUSINESS
When 200 New York City fast-food workers walked off their jobs in November 2012, their demand of $15 an hour seemed like a fantasy. But over the weekend, as more than 1,000 fast-food workers from 50 cities gathered in Chicago for the first-ever nationwide fast-food workers convention, the workers' call for $15 looked prescient.
By Jack Temple, ContributorPolicy Analyst, National Employment Law Project, 2014-07-28