{"id":41310,"date":"2014-09-03T09:37:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41310"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:37:46","slug":"fast-food-workers-plan-largest-ever-one-day-walkout-and-civil-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/09\/03\/fast-food-workers-plan-largest-ever-one-day-walkout-and-civil-disobedience\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Food Workers Plan Largest Ever One-Day Walkout and Civil Disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140903Uprising\/2014_09_03_fast_food_strike.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Pastor William Smart and Moses Brook <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140903Uprising\/2014_09_03_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/fast_food_strike_2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>President Obama on Labor Day this Monday, addressed a group of workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, drawing a line in the sand over low wages. As part of his push to increase the federal minimum wage, and as an opening salvo in the mid-term election campaigns of his Democratic Congressional colleagues, the President backed a union struggle for high wages. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, fast food workers and their union allies are upping the ante on their on-going struggle for higher wages. Demanding $15 an hour and the right to be represented by a union, workers around the nation, in cities in California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and more, will be walking off their jobs this Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>It is shaping up to be the seventh walkout since the campaign began in New York 2 years ago and is shaping up to be the largest. Some cities may witness workers engaging in civil disobedience, as many have pledged to &#8220;do whatever it takes&#8221; to achieve their ends. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the National Restaurant Association has responded saying the strike was a base attempt by unions to boost their falling membership rates. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: Pastor William Smart, President and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Southern California, Moses Brook has worked at McDonald&#8217;s for almost 3 years and makes $9 an hour and plans to join other workers for a walkout on Thursday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightfor15.org\">www.fightfor15.org<\/a> on the morning of Thursday September 4th, to find out where strikes are planned.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama on Labor Day this Monday, addressed a group of workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, drawing a line in the sand over low wages. As part of his push to increase the federal minimum wage, and as an opening salvo in the mid-term election campaigns of his Democratic Congressional colleagues, the President backed a union [&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-41310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310","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=41310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41315,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310\/revisions\/41315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}