Poverty Wages and Fast Food

poverty wages: In the United States we saw this in the recent fight for $15 mobilizations where fast food, home care and other workers have said NO! to poverty wages, according to Huffington Post Canada. In cities such as Seattle, Oakland and San Francisco workers have taken their grievances to the ballot box winning significant gains. Enough of working on poverty wages while corporate profits reach unprecedented levels, enough of ideologies and policies of the free market and economic recoveries that mean worse jobs and intensified precarity for working people. Here in Ontario, graduate students and airport workers have resisted business as usual. These stories give us insight into the deteriorating labour conditions that many of us increasingly face and they help us understand why regular people would risk so much to come together collectively and try to fight for something better. Behind each of these movements are the stories of individual workers: a graduate student who due to working in poverty has been separated from his children for years, a fast food worker who worked for twenty years but still makes the minimum wage. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.