There is a planned one day walkout in Chicago of fast food and retail workers. There have been previous walkouts in New York and there was a nationwide one for Walmart. The impacts of these were pretty minimal.

Do the workers have a legitimate grievance? It is hard to raise a family on minimum wage with no health insurance. In some cases, workers hours are kept below 40 for the week, so that they can be paid less than minimum wage. The industry as a whole is doing very well. Maybe some day everyone is going to be working at a McJob.

There has not been a movement to boycott fast food restaurants. Would this be appropriate? Ordinarily there might be the danger that boycotting would just result in people being laid off, but during a walkout this would be less of a dilemma.