It’s been four months since the minimum wage for California fast-food workers rose to $20 an hour from $16 — a big win for organized labor. Now the California Fast Food Workers Union is saying that ...

Those cheap fast-food prices conceal a huge hidden cost—even if you never pull into a drive-thru. New studies by the University of Illinois, University of California, Berkeley, and the National ...

Fast food workers in California are asking for another minimum wage hike just months after the Golden State bumped their pay from $16 to $20 an hour. The California Fast Food Workers Union — a branch ...

The California Fast Food Workers Union is urging the state to again raise the minimum wage for fast-food employees. According to a letter sent to the statewide Fast Food Council last month, the union ...

If you've ever worked at a fast food joint and had multiple meals there every day, you know that the regular menu gets very ...

Fast-food workers rally Tuesday outside Los Angeles City Hall to demand officials press forward with expanding the city's Fair Work Week law to include employees at fast-food chains. (Juliana Yamada / ...

A new study by LendingTree found that fast food, once viewed as a staple for lower-income workers and families, is increasingly unaffordable for the employees who work at fast-food restaurants. The ...

Previously, on January 1, 21 states increased their minimum wage, impacting some 9.2 million workers. The July 1 wage increase isn’t quite so far-reaching, but it will still impact more than 880,000 ...

Just because someone has a job, doesn't mean they have a home. According to a study of California's fast food industry conducted by the Economic Roundtable, fast food workers make up 11% of all ...

In advance of the busy holiday season, the Walmart-owned retailer is revamping the way it compensates employees to “accelerate” pay increases. Uncle Sam wants you . . . to get a raise. Sam’s Club ...

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