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People march as they protest for increased minimum wages near a McDonald's restaurant on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in the Little Havana area in Miami. Activists, fast-food workers and others are calling for increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour and allowing workers to form unions without corporate opposition, as part of nationwide demonstrations. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Unions promise whopper of a fast-food protest

Sean Higgins · April 15, 2015 9:00 am

The money primarily went to nonprofit groups and public relations firms with the aim of making the effort look like an organic, grassroots movement.

Union spent $23 million last year on higher minimum wage push

Sean Higgins · April 2, 2015 9:00 am

McDonald's is just the latest major U.S. business to announce it is increasing the minimum hourly rate it pays employees. (AP Photo)Â

McDonald’s to raise wages

Joseph Lawler · April 1, 2015 8:22 pm

The federal government has said in a major, closely watched lawsuit that McDonald's Corp. violated workers' union rights at its individual franchise restaurants. (Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images)

Feds refusing to show cards in McDonald’s case

Sean Higgins · March 31, 2015 9:00 am

The National Labor Relations Board charged the McDonald's Corp. as a "joint employer" with its individual franchises in a series of unfair labor practice complaints. [AP Photo

Big biz warns NLRB ‘joint employer’ rule goes beyond franchising

Sean Higgins · March 21, 2015 9:00 am

Richard Griffin, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs testifies before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee September 9, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Lawmakers demand labor agency docs in McDonalds case

Sean Higgins · March 7, 2015 5:00 pm

McDonald's says it plans to start using chicken raised without antibiotics important to human medicine and milk from cows that are not treated with the artificial growth hormone rbST. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Energy and Environment

McDonald’s cuts antibiotics from chicken supply

Zack Colman · March 4, 2015 7:06 pm

Matthew Patinkin, a co-chair of the coalition and owner of Auntie Em's Pretzels and Jamba Juice franchises, said the potential legal liability of being a joint employer would cause the parent corporations to closely dictate how its franchises are run, stripping the local owners of autonomy and therefore removing the reason why entrepreneurs went into business in the first place. (AP Photo/Tammy Lechner)

Small business coalition lobbies Congress to rein in NLRB

Sean Higgins · February 11, 2015 12:35 pm

The NLRB's decision is cataclysmic for McDonald's, and any other franchises to which the new rule is applied. (AP)

MANHATTAN MOMENT: Franchise owners deserve a break today from the Labor Board

Diana Furchtgott-Roth · February 6, 2015 10:00 am

A sign stands outside of a McDonald's restaurant February 9, 2009 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty images)

Lawmakers clash over NLRB charges against McDonald’s

Sean Higgins · February 5, 2015 10:20 pm

"McDonald's is disappointed with the board's decision to ... move forward with these charges."

NLRB: McDonald’s engaged in unfair labor practices

Sean Higgins · December 19, 2014 9:50 pm

Minimum wage savings? What savings?

Minimum wage savings? What savings?

Joseph Lawler · December 4, 2014 10:05 am