December 23, 2024 01:27 AM

Fast Food Strike 2014 [PHOTOS]: Fast-Food Worker Strike Is Going Global, Protests in 30 Countries Planned For May 15

Workers and union leaders from dozens of countries met for the first global meeting of fast-food workers earlier this week. The global meeting was reportedly organized by the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations, a federation comprised of 396 trade union in 126 countries representing 12 million workers.

According to reports, the fast food strike 2014 in the U.S. are expected to include the first walkouts in Philadelphia, Sacramento, Miami and Orlando. Protests outside the States are expected to include Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America and Central America.

Fast food strike 2014 has made foreign protesters taking action specifically in sympathy with U.S. workers. As for how things will turn out after the strike, the results are yet to come.

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