{"id":633,"date":"2012-11-29T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=633"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:02:56","slug":"statement-by-city-council-speaker-christine-c-quinn-re-fast-food-worker-right-to-organize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2012\/11\/29\/633\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement By City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn. Re: Fast-food worker&#8217; right to organize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cI support New York\u2019s fast-food workers\u2019 demand for decent wages they can live on to support families, pay bills and put food on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-food companies are some of the wealthiest in America, yet many of their employees earn far below the federal poverty level. These business practices are unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>All working New Yorkers deserve a living wage and the opportunity to join the middle class. I am behind the city\u2019s fast-food workers who are standing up for this right and fighting for fair pay and an economy that works for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cI support New York\u2019s fast-food workers\u2019 demand for decent wages they can live on to support families, pay bills and put food on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-food companies are some of the wealthiest in America, yet many of their employees earn far below the federal poverty level. These business practices are unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>All working New Yorkers deserve a living wage and the opportunity to join the middle class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2012\/11\/29\/633\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}