{"id":38643,"date":"2013-12-06T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T18:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=38643"},"modified":"2013-12-06T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T19:23:17","slug":"mcdonalds-worker-15-and-a-union-is-what-we-want-and-were-not-going-to-stop-until-we-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/12\/06\/mcdonalds-worker-15-and-a-union-is-what-we-want-and-were-not-going-to-stop-until-we-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s Worker: &#8220;$15 and a Union is What We Want And We&#8217;re Not Going To Stop Until We Get It&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/2013126Uprising\/2013_12_6_fastfoodstrike.mp3\">Listen to this segment<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/2013126Uprising\/2013_12_6_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/fast_food_strike_la.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Hundreds of cities around the country witnessed walkouts and rallies by workers in the fast food industry and their allies yesterday. The major coordinated action followed from a similar action in August and comes less than a week after Black Friday labor actions by Walmart employees and a day after President Obama gave a major speech decrying skyrocketing income inequality in the US. <\/p>\n<p>The fast food workers want higher wages \u2013 specifically $15 an hour \u2013 and the right to form a union. Unions like SEIU and Change to Win have been working behind the scenes to fund the workers\u2019 actions and provide logistical support and guidance. <\/p>\n<p>Here in Los Angeles, workers from various fast food outlets walked off the job and picketed outside a McDonald\u2019s restaurant on Sunset Boulevard, holding signs saying \u201cFight for $15.\u201d Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar went down to the strike and compiled this special report featuring a McDonald\u2019s worker, an employee of Office Max who had walked off his job in solidarity, and a union organizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of cities around the country witnessed walkouts and rallies by workers in the fast food industry and their allies yesterday. The major coordinated action followed from a similar action in August and comes less than a week after Black Friday labor actions by Walmart employees and a day after President Obama gave a major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38656,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38643\/revisions\/38656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}