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A Matter of Time

'I think there’s growing recognition that a nerve has been touched. The industry had better start to take this seriously, because this isn’t going to blow over.'

Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service

Employees International Union (SEIU),

concerning the ongoing fast-food strikes

around the country that began a year ago,

saying it is only a matter of time before

the worker protests became so great that

McDonald’s, Burger King and other

companies agreed to negotiate

 


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