Off-duty Jimmy Johns employees stood outside several locations omnMonday asking customers to sign “holiday cards” urging the franchise owners to agree to time-and-a-half pay for employees working Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, as well as on national holidays.
About 80 people with the group Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment gathered outside a St. Louis Bank of America on Monday, singing and chanting at bank employees to process a loan modification for a local couple.
A multiracial group gathered in Charleston, South Carolina on Monday with electric candles and signs for an NAACP-sanctioned protest of a “Secession Ball,” commemorating the state’s decision to secede from the United States of America exactly 150 years ago.
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