Fast food strike gets super-sized over wages – Yahoo! Finance.
The battle to boost the minimum wage escalated Thursday when thousands of workers at fast-food restaurants in 50 U.S. cities walked off the job to demand a “decent” wage.
From San Diego to New York, workers stopped flipping burgers, frying fries, and slathering on secret sauce in what organizers called the largest strikes against the nation’s fast food companies ever.
“You’re trying to go up and you’re just going down,” said protester Shantel Walker, 31, of Brooklyn, who makes $7.25 working at a Papa John’s (PZZA) in Manhattan. “All of us are in the same financial crunch. We’re trying to take care of our families and our livelihood.”
I’m for abolishing the minimum wage. An entry level job is an entry level job. At the end of the day, when you leave your entry level job are you trying to learn a new skill or increase your value to your present employer?
