{"id":784,"date":"2012-12-01T07:33:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T07:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/01\/hundreds-of-fast-food-workers-strike-for-living\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:27:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:27:56","slug":"hundreds-of-fast-food-workers-strike-for-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/12\/01\/hundreds-of-fast-food-workers-strike-for-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Fast-Food Workers Strike for Living Wage, Inspired by Wal-Mart Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See on <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/3550358776\/hundreds-of-fast-food-workers-strike-for-living-wage-inspired-by-wal-mart-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/seo\/2012\/11\/30\/hundreds_of_fast_food_workers_strike?skip_mobile=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/v4Uyx_siBLpP0VD9Fr6DOzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>Fast-food workers walked off the job in New York City Thursday to hold a series of rallies and picket lines in what has been called the largest series of worker actions ever to hit the country\u2019s fast-food industry.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/seo\/2012\/11\/30\/hundreds_of_fast_food_workers_strike?skip_mobile=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See on democracynow.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See on Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesFast-food workers walked off the job in New York City Thursday to hold a series of rallies and picket lines in what has been called the largest series of worker actions ever to hit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/12\/01\/hundreds-of-fast-food-workers-strike-for-living\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":93,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/09\/28\/saudi-and-foreign-workers-unite-to-strike-over\/","url_meta":{"origin":784,"position":0},"title":"Saudi and foreign workers unite to strike over unpaid wages | Middle East Eye","author":"aslam","date":"September 28, 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Saudi Arabia: Prestigious private hospital has not paid its staff since May, and refuses to return the workers\u2019 passports and allow them to leave unless they sign a document saying that they have been paid in full. 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