Last December, when the Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder signed the controversial "right-to-work legislation, which is a major policy failure of the labor movement in the United States. But more powerful symbol of the anti-union law by Michigan. In 1936, the United Auto Workers union members occupied a General Motors plant in Flint, MI, began came to be known as the Flint sit-down strikes. The action led to the organization of the automotive industry, and promote the modern workers' movement in the United States.
Today, workers are amazing time in Michigan, but the cordon is not in front of the car factory. Surprise strike in New York, Chicago, earlier this week, St. Louis, Fast Food around the Detroit workers stepped off work today, demanding the right to form trade unions and the base pay is $ 15 per hour.
 
 
On a petition a group detroit15.org involved the introduction of the organizations strike, laid a more detailed dynamic strike
Our employers thriving businesses such as McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Dollar Tree, Little Caesars, Domino, Long John Silver's and others, all the billions of dollars, but they pay poverty wages as we struggle with our colleagues to support our families and to cover our basic needs.
More than 400 workers have gone to work today, the Detroit largest fast food strike action in American history. In addition, this is the first strike took place in a "right-to-work" state.
Fast Food work with their low wages and limited benefits, is by no means satisfactory employment. Working minimum wage and no medical is a the perfect proverb Hamburg flip high school students, a fast-food employees are increasingly outdated stereotypes. Fast Food average age of workers is 28, and this figure is tilted 4-year-old women, who make up two-thirds of the labor force. Annual average annual salary of $ 18,810 to cover rent, utilities, car payments, groceries, childcare and other financial obligations.
The growth of these fast food strike, indicating that a new approach of the industrial action may gain traction and proved to be successful. Report in Detroit for a national strike, Josh Eidelson wrote,
With the obvious common strategy shared a major supporter of SEIU movement in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit. Rather than waiting until they have built-in support for most of the shops or workers, staged by a minority of the workforce, is intended to stimulate the actions of their colleagues. Non-public identification with a single international trade union movement and its organizers, union-funded efforts turned to full-time social groups to take the lead organization. Training all their resources in a single company, they are not organized for all industry players.
The strike may occur in Michigan, but the tactics could not be more different than the UAW.
This is to determine the success or failure of today's work is stopped too early, but Detroit union culture appear to have been given to strike boost the organizers are reporting, re-open a McDonald's location called alternative workers refused to cross the picket line, and joined the strike instead.
 
 



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