Fast-Food Strikes Lend Much-Needed Fire to Largely Dormant Labor Movement
Category: BUSINESS
Employees walked out of about 1,000 restaurant. Many earn the $7.25-an-hour federal minimum wage. They're demanding $15 an hour instead, contending, as one Los Angeles striker told The Times' Steven Greenhouse, that "people can't survive on the minimum wage."
By Jerry Lanson, Contributor
Emerson College journalism professor, 2013-08-31