Fast Food Workers Get SEIU Support For $15 Minimum Wage Push

The largest group of fast-food workers ever assembled gathered in a Chicago suburb over the weekend, just a few miles from the corporate headquarters of McDonald’s, to rally for a $15 minimum wage. The Service Employees International Union has taken up the fast food employee wage battle and its president, Mary Kay Henry, was a keynote speaker, taking CEOs of McDonald’s, KFC and Taco Bell to task for multimillion dollar salaries that pay them more than twice as much in a day as many of the workers make in a year. With the SEIU’s assistance, fast food workers have brought several cases before the National Labor Relations Board seeking a decision that would make McDonald’s a joint employer of the restaurants owned by its franchisees. a move that would make it easier for for unions to be formed on a broad scale, likely under the SEIU banner.