Workers at Little Big Burger Join the “Solidarity Union” Movement Organizing Fast Food

Shane Burley
8 min readApr 22, 2019
Little Big Union (LBU) marching through the streets of NW Portland on their way to Little Big Burger, demanding that management recognizes the union.

On a sunny Saturday morning, a crowd was starting to overwhelm the popular Couch St. Park in a high-rent Northwest Portland neighborhood, coalescing around a series of makeshift tables filled with union signs and shirts. With no public announcement, and no previous public campaign branding, the workers at the popular Portland burger chain…

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Shane Burley

Filmmaker and author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. His work is featured at Jacobin, In These Times, Salon, Truthout, etc. @Shane_Burley1