The New York Times, November 28, 2012, Wednesday

The New York Times

November 28, 2012, Wednesday

The New York Times (full article)

In Drive to Unionize, Fast-Food Workers Walk Off the Job

Richard W. Hurd, a labor relations professor at Cornell, said the organizations backing the fast-food campaign seemed intent on finding pressure points to push the restaurants to improve wages and benefits.

“But it’s going to be a lot harder for them to win union recognition,” he said. “It will be harder to unionize them than carwash workers because the parent companies will fight hard against it, because they worry if you unionize fast-food outlets in New York, that’s going to have a lot of ramifications elsewhere.”