Fast food strikes to massively expand: “They’re thinking much bigger”

[Jackpine Radical]

2. A sign of the times. 20 years ago, the industry was full of kids behind the counter.

The kids wanted to earn enough to maybe buy a jalopy & whatever electronics & music were in fashion at the time. They saw themselves as short-termers & had no particular incentive to unionize. But in these times, adults are sometimes trying to feed their families on jobs like this, so unionizing for a living wage suddenly has a level of support that the kids on their own could never have pulled off. Interesting--the kids now have a bunch of older, more serious, role models to observe & from whom to learn labor organizing.