Popular Front of Judea
2nd August 2013, 21:32
Well, somebody finally got arrested over complaints of criminal wage theft at Seattle fast food restaurants, only it wasn't the employers accused of stealing wages by refusing to pay for mandatory overtime. Eight fast food workers and community activists forced police to the haul them away by refusing to disperse from a sit-down picket in front of a McDonald's franchise at 3rd and Pike in downtown Seattle.
Critics who scoff at the nationwide string of one-day fast food strikes as quixotic, and who dismiss demands for a $15 an hour minimum as unrealistic, shouldn't be so quick to write it off. The strike has spread to dozens of cities since starting in New York eight months ago, and has succeeded in sparking a national conversation about living wages and the lack thereof—indeed, it's become the central issue of Seattle's mayor's race. The fast food strike is arguably the most successful public protest movement since Occupy Wallstreet, from which it surely draws a ton of inspiration.
Eight Arrested Outside Downtown Seattle McDonald's as Fast Food Strike Gains Momentum | Seattle Stranger (http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/08/02/eight-arrested-outside-downtown-seattle-mcdonalds-as-fast-food-strike-gains-momentum#more)
Critics who scoff at the nationwide string of one-day fast food strikes as quixotic, and who dismiss demands for a $15 an hour minimum as unrealistic, shouldn't be so quick to write it off. The strike has spread to dozens of cities since starting in New York eight months ago, and has succeeded in sparking a national conversation about living wages and the lack thereof—indeed, it's become the central issue of Seattle's mayor's race. The fast food strike is arguably the most successful public protest movement since Occupy Wallstreet, from which it surely draws a ton of inspiration.
Eight Arrested Outside Downtown Seattle McDonald's as Fast Food Strike Gains Momentum | Seattle Stranger (http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/08/02/eight-arrested-outside-downtown-seattle-mcdonalds-as-fast-food-strike-gains-momentum#more)