McDonald’s workers and community leaders in Charlotte will protest the fast-food company Tuesday. The announcement comes days after workers in Michigan, New York and California slapped the company with a class-action lawsuit, claiming it doesn’t pay adequate overtime and shaves hours off employee time cards, among other allegations. The suit is demanding McDonald’s compensate wages.
WHO: McDonald’s workers and community, labor and faith leaders
WHERE: 8900 JM Keynes, Charlotte
WHEN: Tuesday, March 18, at noon
To learn more about the lawsuit, read this New York Times op-ed.
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This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2014.
We will now hear from the Fox Fans who will explain how these people made their own bed by not going to Harvard like the smart people did.
If they paid the workers a living wage, they wouldn’t have the money to pay the CEO, Don Thompson, his $13.75 million per year. You have to have your priorities.
DJP: Another individual who has zero clue as to what is Inflation and what the causes of it are.
The Plain Truth:
Another person who wants people to live in poverty so that he won’t have to pay more for his hamburger but has no problem with the hired CEO making more money than he can count.
Even in the economy downsized, people who graduated from colleges are still working at fast food resturants. I still can’t even find a good job after leaving Wal-mart and been working there for a year! I might have to go back to fast food if I have to and I did some college. Its common sense.