Meet The Fast Food Workers Going On Strike In The Biggest Action Yet

On Tuesday, fast food workers will stage the biggest strike to ever hit the industry, with walkouts happening in a record 270 cities across the country. They’ll be demanding to be paid at least $15 an hour and be given the right to form a union — and rallies later in the day will include home care workers, child care providers, auto parts workers, farmworkers, and other low-paid employees who are trying to get the same things. In Milwaukee, protesters will end with a demonstration in front of the Republican debate venue.

It will be the first strike ever for Carlton Alexander, a Taco Bell employee in Tampa, Florida. “Tuesday will be my first big action,” he said. But he had heard about the Fight for 15 movement even before he got his job, after workers staged the first one-day strike in New York City in 2012. Today Alexander makes $8.05 an hour, which makes it hard to get by. “We have to kind of be like mathematicians,” he said. “You have to really count for every cent, almost down to the penny, to make it.” He struggles to afford rent alongside the child...READ MORE