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Omaha Steve

(103,471 posts)
Sat Nov 6, 2021, 01:56 PM Nov 2021

'It's a walkout!' Inside the fast-food workers' season of rebellion


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/

BRADFORD, Pa. — Dustin Snyder was tired of the low wages, the 60-hour workweeks and the impossible-to-please customers, and so in early September the assistant general manager at a McDonald’s here drafted a petition that laid bare months of building anger and frustration.

“We are all leaving,” his petition threatened, “and hope you find employees that want to work for $9.25 an hour.” Nearly all of his two dozen employees had signed it. A few added their own flourishes.

“We need a RAISE,” one scribbled next to her signature.

“Piss off,” wrote another.

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'It's a walkout!' Inside the fast-food workers' season of rebellion (Original Post) Omaha Steve Nov 2021 OP
Good For Them COL Mustard Nov 2021 #1
I remember some great Wildcat multigraincracker Nov 2021 #2

COL Mustard

(6,888 posts)
1. Good For Them
Sat Nov 6, 2021, 02:04 PM
Nov 2021

I literally just finished reading this article on WaPo...good for them for standing up for themselves. Nobody else is going to.

multigraincracker

(34,093 posts)
2. I remember some great Wildcat
Sat Nov 6, 2021, 03:24 PM
Nov 2021

walk outs. Got a new foreman fired for sexual harassment. His daddy was a big shot downtown.
Cost the company millions for 3 days of lost production.

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