David Rolf Quotes About Fast Food

• Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.

  David Rolf

  Jobs, Self, Earning

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

  David Rolf

  Wages, Working Conditions, Fast Food

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Most fast-food workers can't easily join a union, because they don't work directly for their parent company, such as McDonald's or Subway. Instead, they work for individual franchise owners, ensuring that each individual fast-food outlet would have to organize and win union recognition separately. So there's not one central employer to bargain with, as in a traditional union campaign.

  David Rolf

  Winning, Mcdonalds, Parent

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.

  David Rolf

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15.

  David Rolf

  Teacher, Nursing, Average

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

  David Rolf

  Wages, Poverty, Fast Food

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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