New York’s fast food workers have not managed to unionize. Introducing a trade union into a company is too long and complex a process. Until now, the sector’s major food chains including Mac Donald’s and other franchise restaurants have been able to avoid wage negotiations with worker representatives. However, the city’s elected representatives are now able to offer these local workers an alternative, namely, an association that will work to defend their interests called Fast Food Justice.
It all started back at the end of 2012 with the ‘Fight for $15’ movement that fought for a minimum hourly wage of $15. Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Mac Donald’s workers and so on, with support from the SEIU union organized one-day strikes as well as demonstrations in a bid to push up the $7.25 minimum Federal hourly pay rate. They succeeded in mobilizing their local elected representatives and the rate for New York has since gone up to $13.50 and by the end of 2018 should hit the $15 target.
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