A nationwide strike of fast food workers began Thursday.
Hundreds of arrests and public disturbances became part of an orchestrated campaign sponsored by the Service Employees International Union to increase wages, union membership, and ultimately, its own coffers.
While many streets were blocked, including Times Square in New York, and restaurants sat vacant, supporters and opponents took to the Twittersphere to spread their messages.
The fearless Naquasia getting arrested for $15/hr and the right to join a union w/o retaliation. #StrikeFastFood pic.twitter.com/eoT4BaBbx0
— Fast Food Forward (@FastFoodForward) September 4, 2014
Workers stage walkout for higher wages in Houston, nationwide: http://t.co/kRbBeHf6cc #StrikeFastFood #hounews pic.twitter.com/zl1GZbN0cD
— Kristy Gillentine (@KrisGillentine) September 4, 2014
Nothing says I deserve a raise like quitting work, harassing customers, and blocking business. #StrikeFastFood
— mark walker (@jmarkwalk) September 4, 2014
Fast food workers on strike for $15/hr wtf if you want more money get a degree. That’s why it’s called a minimum wage job. #idiots
— Kayla Walters (@MissyKay1018) September 4, 2014
“There has to be civil disobedience because workers don’t see any other way to get $15 an hour and a union,” said Fast Food Forward organizing director Kendall Fells, according to USA Today.
Yet, according to a recent Chamber of Commerce study based upon SEIU documents, 40 full-time employees at union headquarters itself make less than the demanded figure.
McDonald’s issued a statement calling for negotiated and graduated wage increases to avoid economic disruptions, and the National Council of Chain Restaurants described the coordinated strike as placing other restaurant workers and customers in physical danger and illegal trespassing.
The strike, of course, has President Barack Obama’s support and that of the National Labor Relations Board, but as the tweets intimate, the Law of Unintended Consequences might come back to haunt the protesters.
Think it the #FastFood strikers, if they put their energy into education, could get that $15/hour. #McDonalds for breakfast this a.m.
— Think Freely (@BruceNV) September 4, 2014
@scrowder With that will come $15 burgers and then there will be no customers and that $15 won’t matter without job openings.
— Nathanael Brown (@Nathanael_Brown) September 4, 2014
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