BREAKING: @ChickfilA workers in Ventura, CA are ON STRIKE.

After our co-worker began organizing to end the illegal wage theft at this location, Chick Fil A fired her.

Not on our watch. We demand the reinstatement of our co-worker. #UnionsForAll
This comes after @CAGovernor signed #AB257 to create a Fast Food Council for over half a million workers like us

Billion dollar fast food corps aren't publicly prepared to obey the law, they're spending millions to overturn it and take away our seat at the table. Enraging!
"As soon as I started working @ChickfilA - I noticed that they didn't give us our legally required 10-minute breaks. They told me that it doesn't exist here... When I started talking about our rights and organizing my colleagues. They fired me." Elizabeth Arellano Sign that says Chick Fil A stop the retaliation
The reinstatement of our co-worker isn't the only reason we strike today. California passed COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave, and @ChickfilA isn't following the law. This store suffers from severe understaffing, and as happens so often is in fast food, gender discrimination.
All of our issues are connected

Regardless of if we work in Ventura County, or Sacramento, if we work for @ChickfilA or @McDonalds, fast food workers have suffered through crises for our entire careers

We didn't create the crises in the fast food industry, but we will end them.
"I’m a Christian and I thought this was a Christian job, however after working here I noticed that I didn’t see those values implemented in how they treat their employees." Edith Villegas, on strike today after working for @ChickfilA for 6 years. #AB257
"The issues we're on strike for is why we need the Fast Food Council more than ever. We won’t be intimidated by corporations that try to silence us and keep us from making our workplace better- we’re here to say we won’t back down." Jonathan Elizarraraz,striking @ChickfilA worker
As our bosses prepare to fight us at the ballot box, we’re moving forward to keep building our movement and create a Fast Food Council. If you’re a fast food worker or know one in California, sign up to join our movement: fightfor15.org/signup-languag… #AB257

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More from @CAFastFoodUnion

Aug 19, 2023
BREAKING: @Wendys workers have walked off the job at 4770 Convoy Street in San Diego ON STRIKE due to extreme heat and extreme wage theft

At times it's hotter in our store than outside.

Meanwhile, we're not being given the breaks mandated in California.

#SolidaritySummer
Wendy's tells us simply to drink water in 92 degree heat to cool down, while not giving us cooling breaks, nor our legally required 10 minute breaks.

We know the law. We know our rights. We're on strike.

@Wendy's: Fix the air conditioner and follow the law!
Marcela Garcia has worked in the fast food industry for 16 years and organized a strike at her Wendy's today.

Enough is enough.

As the industry spends tens of millions to lobby and silence workers like Marcela, we're not slowing down.

Can’t stop. Won’t stop.

#AB1228 #CALeg Picture of Marcela outside her store wearing her Wendy's shirt
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Jul 21, 2023
BREAKING: Workers at @McDonalds in LA have walked off the job ON STRIKE due to inside heat of nearly 100 degrees.

Workers at this store helped launch a strike wave that spread to over 350 stores statewide in 2020 through 2022.

We're reminding our bosses who has the power.
Our strikes and organizing culminated in the passage of #AB257 to create a Fast Food Council that would give us a seat at the table to end the crises in the industry.

Instead of fixing our A/C this month, McDonald’s donated $10 MILLION to a referendum to overturn the law. Screenshot of McDonald's donating $10,000,000 to save local restaurants, a PAC run by global corporations to silence fast food workers
This comes as a strike wave sweeps LA:

@UNITEHERE11 across Southern California

@WGAWest and @SAGAFTRA Nationally

@amazonteamsters up North

@MTUnitedCA to the East

Last week 100s of us walked off the job.

We aren't slowing down. #SolidaritySummer
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Workers holding on strike no AC no service signs
Workers and allies rally outside the striking McDonald's
Cars in the parking lot of the mcdonalds with withs on them that say NO A/C NO LABOR and have vectorized drawings of fast food workers.
Striking McDonald’s workers with signs that say NO A/C NO LABOR
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Jul 10, 2020
BREAKING: @BurgerKing workers are ON STRIKE after Angela Martinez Gómez, a trans co-worker, died after working with COVID-19 symptoms

BK denied Angela died of COVID, despite having symptoms.

BK blamed Angela’s death on hormone injections without evidence.

#TransLivesMatter
Angela Martinez Gómez was 42 years old and was originally from Oaxaca, Mexico. She was a leader and loved by her family and community. Burger King exploited her for her labor until her final days. That's how companies like @BurgerKing and @McDonalds make billions of dollars.
Angela Martinez Gómez taught us to fight for our dreams and to be ourselves.

Today we honor her in silent protest and fight for safe working conditions.

Her family is raising money for her body to be transported back to Oaxaca: gofundme.com/f/in-loving-me… #TransLivesMatter
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