The general strike effectively shut down the majority of SFO’s 84 restaurant outlets.
workers voted to ratify a new contract Sunday that would increase their wages by $5 an hour in addition to providing them with free family health care.
“This victory shows the world that fast-food jobs can in fact be good, family-sustaining jobs, and it’s all because workers had the courage to strike,” Anand Singh, president of Unite Here Local 2, said in a press release. “After three years without a raise,’s fast-food workers were tired of working two or even three jobs just to survive — so they took their lives into their own hands and won a better future.
The general strike effectively shut down the majority of SFO’s 84 restaurant outlets, resulting in long lines of customers at the eateries and coffee shops that were still open as employees fought for better wages. Doug Yakel, a spokesperson for SFO, told SFGATE that “about 35% of restaurants remained open during the strike, albeit many with reduced hours/offerings.”
Most of the striking employees reported wages of $17 an hour, requiring them to work multiple jobs and around-the-clock shifts just to make ends meet, the union said.SFGATE she was paid San Francisco's minimum wage of $16.99 an hour and had not received a single raise in the 20 years she had worked at SFO, and frequently had to sleep in her car or at the airport between shifts.
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