{"id":9838,"date":"2013-08-30T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T09:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9838"},"modified":"2013-08-30T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T09:34:50","slug":"us-fast-food-strike-makes-no-impact-on-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9838","title":{"rendered":"US Fast food strike makes no impact on eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fast-food-strike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9839\" alt=\"fast-food-strike\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fast-food-strike-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fast-food-strike-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fast-food-strike.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Friday thousands of fast food workers went on strike for higher wages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strike has been touted by organizers as the industry&#8217;s largest in history. The workers are seeking wages of $15 an hour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But despite demonstrations in 58 cities, the strikes appeared to do little to rattle the industry today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judging by dozens of tweets and photos about the event, most protesters were outside. This left customers free to order inside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While restaurants in some places temporarily shut down because they had too few employees, many targeted restaurants operated under normal conditions, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In New York, things appeared to business as usual. The AP wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">In New York, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined about 300 to 400 workers and supporters Thursday in a march before the group flooded into a McDonald&#8217;s near the Empire State Building. Shortly after the demonstration, however, the restaurant seemed to be operating normally, and a few customers said they hadn&#8217;t heard of the movement. The same was true at a McDonald&#8217;s a few blocks away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AP noted\u00a0that\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">since the organizers had made their plans public in an effort to get workers to participate in the strike, managers had time to adjust their staffing levels prior to today&#8217;s events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Despite the relatively low impact of the strikes, a protesting worker <\/span>interviewed by Business Insider<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> said he wasn&#8217;t deterred.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m doing for my coworkers and out of respect for myself,&#8221; Nick Williams, a 28-year-old McDonald&#8217;s worker from Indianapolis, said. &#8220;My voice will be heard no matter what.&#8221; &#8211; Business Insider<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday thousands of fast food workers went on strike for higher wages. The strike has been touted by organizers as the industry&#8217;s largest in history. The workers are seeking wages of $15 an hour. But despite demonstrations in 58 cities, the strikes appeared to do little to rattle the industry today. Judging by dozens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Fast food strike makes no impact on eaters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[5707,5709,5711,5710,1638,5708],"class_list":["post-9838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-fast-food-strike","tag-largest-strike","tag-mc-donalds","tag-protesters","tag-us","tag-wages"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fast-food-strike.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9840,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838\/revisions\/9840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}