Fast-food workers striking outside Hollywood McDonald’s

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Fast-food workers plan to strike Tuesday, holding rallies outside McDonald’s locations in Monterey Park, South Los Angeles and Hollywood as part of a statewide protest against allegedly unsafe working conditions and to demand passage of Assembly Bill 257.

Organizers of the statewide strike say Sen. Bob Archuleta, D-Pico Rivera, and Assemblymen Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, and Miguel Santiago, D- Los Angeles, will join a 9 a.m. rally outside a Monterey Park McDonald’s where workers recently raised the alarm about sewage flooding the kitchen.

The trio is expected to declare their support for the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act, which would establish a Fast Food Sector Council to give workers a voice in setting minimum standards across the industry.

The council would be made up of workers, corporate representatives, franchise operators and state officials charged with developing standards on wages, hours and other working conditions related to worker health and safety.

The bill, if passed in its current form, would cover fast-food restaurants with 30 or more establishments nationally that share a common brand or consumer image.

Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, and Assemblyman, Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, are expected to attend a 3 p.m. rally at a Hollywood McDonald’s where employees complained over the summer about stifling temperatures due to a broken air conditioning unit. Dozens of workers lost their jobs with little notice when the restaurant closed last week, according to organizers.

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While most fast-food workers are not union members, they have banded together to demand workplace changes at a time when restaurants and other food- service businesses have struggled to fill open positions.

Research has raised concerns about the transmission of COVID-19 in fast-food workplaces during the last year of the pandemic. A UCSF study found that line cooks had a nearly 60% increase in mortality related to COVID-19.

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Ham Shipey
Ham Shipey
2 years ago

Just close the store. Working at McDonalds used to be a job when you were 16. It’s not workplace for adults.

greeneyedguy
greeneyedguy
2 years ago
Reply to  Ham Shipey

This is a horrible take. Employees deserve decent working conditions no matter their age btw.

Tom
Tom
2 years ago

If by Hollywood you mean the McDonalds at Sunset and Crescent Heights it was closed with little to no notice to consumers as well. As a matter of fact when I was in there a week or so ago there were signs reading that they were hiring. Went Sunday and the lot was roped off.

Jason
Jason
2 years ago
Reply to  Tom

There are two locations in Hollywood: Hollywood Blvd, east of Highland and one on Vine St. just south of Sunset Blvd. Btw, the now closed location at Crescent Heights is owned by the same owner of the one on LaBrea and SM Blvd. The hiring signs could have been directing them to the other location. Just a thought.

Ruth Williams
Ruth Williams
2 years ago
Reply to  Tom

There is a huge development slated for the site so all those businesses have either left or will be shortly. It’s outside of WeHo it’s a Los Angeles development.