Fast-food employees are struggling to afford necessities and a recent report shows they must work more than twice as many hours as the average worker just to afford the meals they serve. It ...

After three years in the fast food industry, things were trending up for Alejandra Aguilar Perez. She was promoted to shift leader at a restaurant near USC, where her daughter dreamed of going to ...

A mother and daughter who said they were fired from a fast food restaurant in San José for protesting working conditions rallied Wednesday alongside community members, officials and union ...

Nationwide fast-food strikes are ramping up today, as thousands of low-wage restaurant workers are walking off the job, demanding the right to organize and wages as high as $15 per hour. The issue of ...

A NEW SURVEY of fast food workers across the state revealed the difficulties of starting a family while holding down a job — and many don’t know their rights. The California Fast Food Workers Union ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A new study by LendingTree found that fast ...

The Los Angeles City Council voted today to look into how it could expand rights on the job for fast food workers and establish a "Know Your Rights" training program for the industry. What does that ...