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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/