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TexasTowelie

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Tue Sep 5, 2017, 04:14 AM Sep 2017

Fast-food workers strike in St. Paul for $15 minimum wage

ST. PAUL — About 200 fast-food workers and community allies rallied for a strike Monday morning, Sept. 4, to push for a $15 minimum wage.

"Hold the burgers, hold the fries, make our wages super sized," attendees chanted, according to Stephanie Gasca, one of the event organizers. Fast-food workers organized with Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (an organization dedicated to "building the power and leadership of low-wage workers," according to its site) for a rally in the morning and a day-long strike.

The Labor Day rally took place outside McDonald's on Seventh Street West near Madison Street in St. Paul, but employees from fast-food restaurants all over the city attended.

So many workers came from a McDonald's in Minneapolis (at Lake Street near 31st Avenue) that the restaurant was temporarily closed until at least 4 p.m.

Read more: http://www.inforum.com/news/4322549-fast-food-workers-strike-st-paul-15-minimum-wage

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Fast-food workers strike in St. Paul for $15 minimum wage (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2017 OP
Hidden costs in that burger.. GMBshootingclubM60 Sep 2017 #1
 
1. Hidden costs in that burger..
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 05:21 AM
Sep 2017

Other taxpayers support the underpaid workers, while the
companies pocket the difference.
I'd like to see a breakdown of the real cost of a burger if
the community health services, earned income tax credit,
etc., etc., were added in.
It would be so much simpler to let the employee make a
decent wage and not need all these 'help' programs, administered
by people driving BMWs with 6-figure salaries....

We all know the price of gasoline is probably $25/gallon, if you
add in all the trillions spent killing people in the Mideast.

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