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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #58: Holding McDonald’s Responsible, with Catherine Ruckelshaus
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Since the first strikes hit New York City, fast-food workers have been saying that the big corporations that dominate their industry were ultimately responsible for their working conditions. In other words, it wasn’t a coincidence that McDonald’s employees from Chicago to St. Louis, Philadelphia to Seattle have the same low wage...