Fast-food Workers and a New Kind of Labor Activism
The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 12, 2014
Most fast-food workers today are adults, and many have children. William Finnegan, staff writer at The New Yorker, investigates the push for unionization of fast food restaurants, and he focuses on a small group of Dominican women struggling to pay rent and raise families while working at a popular Manhattan McDonald’s. Many of the workers there belong to Fast Food Forward, the New York branch of a growing campaign to unionize fast-food workers. His article “Dignity” appears in the September 15, 2014, issue of The New Yorker.
