"Dignity" by William Finnegan

In the excerpt "Dignity" William Finnegan does show us multiple times how fast food is politics. For example how there was a protest in the year 2013 in over hundreds cities fast food worker were protest better wages and a fast food union which received so much acknowledgement that "president Obama renewed a long-neglected bill that pledge to raise federal wages." In my opinion politics doesn't have much to do with fast food restaurants. From what I read and understood from Finnegan's Dignity it sounds more like a war or a fight against the corporation the employees work for. As shown in "Dignity" the McDonald corporation sued the London Greenpeace for libel because it was enforcing there protest on the corporation which made the corporation feel like they we're being "attacked", reading this made me realize that big corporations such as the Mc Donald corporation if in any way feel threatened or if the corporation is at risk of changing they will hire the best lawyer to help shut down whatever union or protest against them. Politics is some what viewed in fast food chains but not in the employers favor but in the corporations favor. Since these corporation of fast food chain are so big they have so much power and money that if they want something done stopped or changed they will be able to do it but when it come to politics with employers not much can be done unless all these employes all over the United States revolt like they did in 2013. Politics are not that much involved unless the big corporations want them to be involved, the employees are usually just constantly in fights with the big corporations they can't win against. People view fast food in political terms because of how big of an impact it has in our society like for example obesity, how it affects the life of poorer society, and the plentiful jobs it offers to society, but when It comes to wages and benefits politics is really restricted since they don't own the corporations. How I think of it is politics don't own these corporations and corporations are just out to make profit so if they don't want to offer jobs they don't have to and as we see for example nike corporation they have almost all their jobs in china where the wages are less then a dollar a day because they're out for the profit. Politics may have some roles in fast food corporation but when it comes down to it it's very miniscule.