Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The pandemic intensified the mental health issues that fast-food workers had already faced. On top of the known mental health issues, they now had a fear of losing their jobs, contracting COVID-19 and spreading the virus to others. [50] The fast food workers have said they have dealt with being sexually harassed and mentally abused.
A US food retail trade group advised retailers to accelerate ordering and consider rationing to prevent empty shelves. [8] Food retailers were "among the most affected by the coronavirus, but one of the few businesses that might actually benefit," at least in the short term according to the television channel Cheddar. [9] Some areas saw price ...
“I could see us doing [a vaccine mandate] if people were dying like crazy,” said one worker who has resisted calls from his employer to get vaccinated. Food workers were on the front lines.
Food Company Infected Deaths Notes 2017–2018 2017–18 South African listeriosis outbreak: Listeria: processed meat: Enterprise Foods 1,060 [1] 216 [1] A widespread listeriosis outbreak from contaminated deli meats from Enterprise Foods, a subsidiary of Tiger Brands. It is the world's worst listeriosis outbreak. 2011 2011 Germany E. coli O104 ...
Yeldell is among the millions of fast food workers across the U.S. scraping to get by. About two-thirds of them are women, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and many are supporting their families on minimum wages set at the federal government's floor of $7.25 an hour. Fast food workers are disproportionately Hispanic, making up ...
AP Should fast food workers' wages be nearly doubled to $15 an hour? This has been driving a debate that has picked up steam since November 2012, when the first group of fast food workers staged a ...
Getty Images It started with a brief walkout at a few restaurants in New York City back in November 2012, but on Thursday the campaign against low pay at America's fast food restaurants morphed ...
Rolling Stone asked Schlosser to write an article looking at America through fast food in 1997 after reading his article on migrants in Atlantic Monthly. [4] [5] He then spent nearly three years researching the fast-food industry, from the slaughterhouses and packing plants that turn out the burgers to the minimum-wage workers who cook them to the television commercials that entice children to ...