It’s a good thing for pop music, honky-tonk feminism, and Canadian tax collectors that McDonald’s pays lousy wages. If the food stores paid their frontline workers enough to survive on, Shania Twain would still be working there, a shareholder claimed at the company’s annual meeting this week. The unidentified man, who said he’d been a …
The Bizarre, Shania Twain-Based Argument For Keeping McDonald’s Wages Low Read More »
In the largest protest of its kind, thousands of McDonald’s employees stormed the company’s headquarters today to demand that it stop spending millions manipulating stock prices, and start paying workers a living wage. McDonald’s cashiers and cooks came to the company’s shareholders meeting, at its corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois. More than 100 were …
Not Lovin’ It: Thousands Storm McDonald’s HQ To Protest Low Wages Read More »
Governor Cuomo announced yesterday that he’ll use state law to impanel a Wage Board to examine the minimum wage in the fast-food industry. The fast-food cooks and cashiers who started the Fight for $15 movement are showing how ordinary people make change happen when they stick together. Governor Cuomo’s move to set a dramatically higher …
New York wage announcement is a bold step forward, will strengthen economy for all of us Read More »
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
