Fast-food employees are struggling to afford necessities and a recent report shows they must work more than twice as many hours as the average worker just to afford the meals they serve. It ...

Nationwide fast-food strikes are ramping up today, as thousands of low-wage restaurant workers are walking off the job, demanding the right to organize and wages as high as $15 per hour. The issue of ...

After three years in the fast food industry, things were trending up for Alejandra Aguilar Perez. She was promoted to shift leader at a restaurant near USC, where her daughter dreamed of going to ...

Fast-food workers rally Tuesday outside Los Angeles City Hall to demand officials press forward with expanding the city's Fair Work Week law to include employees at fast-food chains. (Juliana Yamada / ...

A NEW SURVEY of fast food workers across the state revealed the difficulties of starting a family while holding down a job — and many don’t know their rights. The California Fast Food Workers Union ...

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A mother and daughter who said they were fired from a fast food restaurant in San José for protesting working conditions rallied Wednesday alongside community members, officials and union ...

NEW YORK (AP) – American fast-food workers often earn about $7.25 an hour to make the $3 chicken sandwiches and 99-cent tacos that generate billions of dollars in profit each year for McDonald’s and ...

Something has happened to tipping culture in America, and it's made people somewhat uneasy about the gratuities they used to leave with confidence. Tips were once confined to the sit-down dining ...

NEW YORK (AP) American fast-food workers often earn about $7.25 an hour to make the $3 chicken sandwiches and 99-cent tacos that generate billions of dollars in profit each year for McDonald's and ...