Dive Summary:

• Fast food workers in over 50 major U.S. cities have pledged to walk off the job in protest for higher industry wages. Workers are demanding higher pay and the right to unionize.
• Despite the coordination of solidarity, the protests have had little impact thus far. Workers are reportedly seeking an increase in wage to $15 per hour.
• “What the workers are trying to do is hold the corporations accountable,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of Service Employees International Union.

From the article:

Even if you could get thousands of store operators to sit down and agree to specific wage increases, the most they could afford is a raise of $1 an hour, spread over three years, said John Gordon, principal of Pacific Management Consulting Group, who has advised franchisees for 30 years.