Tag: McDonald's

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?

Joseph Lawler · December 4, 2014 10:05 am

(Getty images/Andrew Burton)

Group demands NLRB turn over documents in McDonald’s case

Sean Higgins · October 30, 2014 10:34 pm

Anheuser-Busch, McDonald’s voice NFL disapproval

Mae Anderson · September 16, 2014 11:02 pm

Customers sit at a McDonald's restaurant. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Business owners: NLRB’s McDonald’s decision will ruin franchise model

Sean Higgins · September 9, 2014 5:06 pm

Protesters sit in front of a McDonald's restaurant on 42nd Street in New York's Times Square as police officers move in to begin making arrests, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. The protesters are seeking to get pay increases to $15 per hour. Thursday's demonstration is part of a day of planned protests in 150 cities across the country by workers from fast-food chains. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Fast-food workers striking for wage increase

Joseph Lawler · September 4, 2014 4:48 pm

A customer enters a McDonald's in Chicago, Illinois. (Getty images/Tim Boyle)

Beltway Confidential

McDonald’s: Vive la France!

Michael Barone · August 30, 2014 12:36 am

McDonald's Corp. has no way to appeal the federal government's decision that it is liable for legal complaints at its franchised restaurants, industry experts say. That's because there is no decision to appeal -- at least no official one. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

McDonald’s can’t appeal NLRB franchise decision

Sean Higgins · August 28, 2014 9:00 am