Fast food strike spreads to Milwaukee

The labor strike by fast food restaurant workers has now spread to a fifth city: Milwaukee!

Scott Walker must be soiling his pantaloons right now.

This strike - which has also graced New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit - is part of a campaign called Fast Food Forward. This follows a strike 2 months ago by guest workers who staffed McDonald's restaurants in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area. (Franchisees forced workers to work 25 hours straight with no overtime, and as many as 7 workers had to live in one room in a basement.)

The Milwaukee strike has spread beyond the fast food industry and into the retail biz - which is also predominantly nonunion.

I take labor issues very seriously, as I have ever since my youth when a few mansion dwellers at school boasted about how they didn't have to work like we did. I had to get my first job at 17, while these privileged bullies were out getting plastered. They're the 1% who now exploits the 99%. Young people who are reading this may find that the adult world is a macrocosm of the youth world, and today's frustrations will prove themselves to be real concerns.

(Source: http://www.thenation.com/blog/174335/fast-food-strikes-hitting-fifth-city-milwaukee)