What Can Europe Teach Us About Better Pay, Conditions at McDonald's and Other Fast Food Restaurants?
Posted on December 06, 2012 at 13:45 PM EST
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Toward the end of a morning strike outside the Madison Ave. McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) last Thursday a passerby an older man in an overcoat asked a young organizer what was going on. “What’s all this?” “We’re protesting McDonald’s.” “Yeah I see that. But why?” The chipper organizer explained (with perhaps too well-rehearsed a response) that many McDonald’s employees only make about $7 or $8 per hour and face shortened schedules fines or suspensions from management when they try to organize. “We think people should be able to earn more when the company they work for makes billions ...