Fast Food Workers Stage Walkouts To Demand Higher Wages

Fast Food Workers Stage Walkouts To Demand Higher Wages

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Fast food workers in New York and six other major cities have organized a one-day strike demanding a living wage and benefits.

Protesters gathered outside the McDonald’s at 51st Street and Broadway in Manhattan on Monday, chanting “Hold the burgers, hold the fries, make our wages super size” and “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Poverty wages got to go.”

“Every month I’m at a deficit, every paycheck I’m at a deficit,” Burger King worker Tamara Green said. “I want to feel like I’m worth something. I don’t feel like I have a value; we don’t feel like we have a value.”

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney said service sector positions are a growing part of the economy, but many workers are not making enough money to live on.

“Literally, the government ends up subsidizing these workers with food stamps,” Maloney said.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/07/29/fast-food-workers-stage-walkouts-to-demand-higher-wages/

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Fast Food Workers Stage Walkouts To Demand Higher Wages (Original post)	FreakinDJ	Jul 2013	OP
In May Seattle workers went on a one day strike. They were asking for $15/hour wages and the right	liberal_at_heart	Jul 2013	#1
A one-day strike? C'mon Dems, this is pathetic! We need to help them make it at least one-week.	reformist2	Jul 2013	#2
While In-N-Out just keeps rolling along.	Egalitarian Thug	Jul 2013	#3

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Mon Jul 29, 2013, 11:35 PM

liberal_at_heart (12,081 posts)

1. In May Seattle workers went on a one day strike. They were asking for $15/hour wages and the right

to organize. Our states minimum wage went from $9.04 to $9.19 this year. I love that they said screw that incremental crap and went all out for a $15/hour wage. That's the kind of bold action we need. We cannot simply raise our minimum wage by a few cents or by 1 or 2 dollars. We need a real raise. Something that will help lift people out of poverty.

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Tue Jul 30, 2013, 12:35 AM

reformist2 (9,841 posts)

2. A one-day strike? C'mon Dems, this is pathetic! We need to help them make it at least one-week.

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Tue Jul 30, 2013, 02:36 AM

Egalitarian Thug (12,448 posts)

3. While In-N-Out just keeps rolling along.

We don't even go to the one by us anymore because it's always packed, meanwhile the Arby's that shares a parking lot and the Burger King right across the street never seem to have anyone in them.

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