There's nothing organic about fast food. I'd love to see all these peddlers of crap shut down for good.

He could give workers an immediate raise by slashing our exorbitant state sales tax and imposing a progressive asset tax.

He had better, if he wants contributions from the same unions that were on the take for his secret arena deal. It's like the 70s never left.

Wait, what?

@1 the strike knowledge was organic...not the food.....
@2 the...mayor...can change state taxes.....?

@Goldy/McGinn, hooray!

Goldy, is he also going to call for a $15/hr minimum wage like Kshama Sawant has? Seems to follow that if he supports fast food workers and their strike that he'd also support their call for $15/hour and a union... right?

Would somebody explain to @2 how government works?

McGinn will pander to anyone for votes at this point. If the strike was against developers, he would be sending in the Pinkerton goons to bust it up and crack some heads.

Are you fucking kidding me!
Actual Labor Unions are continuing to get screwed under the McGinn administration.

We are loosing jobs to unqualified, cheating non-union contractors violating Davis-Bacon prevailing wage laws on Federal/City projects. Have you looked into the wholesale gutting of labor laws within the City Contracting System? Labor is being cheated out of millions in wages by scumbag companies getting contracts then not paying their worker what is required. The Port of Seattle is even worse.

Writing about shutting down a junk-food outlet for a few hours classifies McGinn as "supporting labor"?

Powerful, real Samuel Gompers stuff.

@9
Yea McGinn is about as far from working class as you can get.

The only reson that liberal elitest wants to "expand the Middle class" is so he can tax them back in to poverty.