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The National Labor Relations Board said Tuesday that the world's biggest hamburger chain could be named as a joint employer in several complaints regarding worker rights at franchise-owned restaurants. The decision is pivotal because it could expose McDonald's Corp. to liability for management practices in those locations.

It turns out Starbucks isn't contributing any upfront scholarship money to an online college degree program it introduced this week.

Under a barrage of customer input, General Mills has begun manufacturing a version of the popular cereal Cheerios free of genetically modified ingredients. The move was in response to the campaign 'GMO Inside' that prompted fans of the product to flood Cheerios' Facebook page with comments.

Thursday, in over 100 cities nationwide, fast food workers are planning a major action to protest the lack of livable wages in an industry that makes billions for corporations like McDonald's and Burger King. Currently, the $7.25 federally mandated minimum wage makes a worker around $15,000 a year - nowhere near enough for an individual, much less a family, to survive comfortably.

Fast-food workers in about 100 cities will walk off the job this Thursday, organizers say, which would mark the largest effort yet in a push for higher pay. The actions would build on a campaign that began about a year ago to call attention to the difficulties of living on the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

Citing sources close to the situation it did not name, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the offer for Twinkies and other snack cakes by C. Dean Metropoulos and Apollo would be for more than $400 million. The report said that the deal could be disclosed as early as Tuesday.