article_snippet.sent: By standing up together, fast-food workers are making it less acceptable for profitable companies like McDonald's's to pay wages so low that McDonald's workers are boxed into poverty.
article_snippet.sent: First, it leaves out the vast majority of McDonald's's workers.
article_snippet.sent: That means hundreds of thousands of workers serving Big Macs and fries won't see a dollar more in hundreds of thousands of workers serving Big Macs and fries paychecks.
article_snippet.sent: McDonald's claims that McDonald's has no responsibility for those franchises, but McDonald's workers, and the National Labor Relations Board, disagree.
article_snippet.sent: One dollar above the minimum wage isn't enough to make paying for groceries, rent and transportation much easier, especially coming from a company that makes nearly $5 billion a year in profits.
article_snippet.sent: McDonald's and other companies need to stop trying to prevent McDonald's and other companies workers from speaking out together in a union.
article_snippet.sent: McDonald's and other companies should respect workers' right to collectively demand sensible schedules and such basics as adequate first aid kits, and not being compelled to work off the clock.
article_snippet.sent: We are wining this fight, and McDonald'sMcDonald's's announcement is proof that the momentum is on
article_snippet.sent: When McDonald'sMcDonald's's workers have more money in all McDonald's workers pockets, all McDonald's workers will inject money back into all McDonald's workers neighborhoods, boosting the entire economy.
article_snippet.sent: Today, thousands of McDonald's's workers live below the federal poverty line.
article_snippet.sent: help McDonald's's keep wages artificially low.
article_snippet.sent: I've talked to workers at McDonald's's restaurants who say workers at McDonald's restaurants who say they have to skip meals have to skip meals because workers at McDonald's restaurants who say they have to skip meals don't have enough money.
article_snippet.sent: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
article_snippet.sent: It's time for McDonald's to make sure all the people who serve McDonald's burgers are paid enough to afford to eat all the people who serve its burgers for dinner.
article_snippet.sent: It's time for the corporation to find a way to raise wages for everyone working in the corporation restaurants so they can pay they bills, put some money back into they community, and expand prosperity and opportunity across our land.