Starvation Wages for Fast Food Workers:
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday congratulated thousands of fast-food workers who have staged one-day strikes to demand higher wages. “I rise today to congratulate hundreds and hundreds of young people throughout the country who are standing up for justice, who are putting a spotlight on one of the major economic crises facing this country,” Sanders said in a Senate floor speech.
On Wednesday alone workers in St. Louis, Kansas City and Detroit picketed McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Popeye’s and Long John Silver’s restaurants as part of a campaign to double their hourly wages to $15 an hour. There also have been demonstrations in New York, N.Y., Chicago and Washington, D.C.
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“What they are saying is workers cannot make it on $7.25 an hour, $7.50 an hour. Often they are unable to get 40 hours of work and in most cases they get no or very limited benefits,” Sanders added. “What they are saying is we need to raise the minimum wage in this country.”
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
Starvation Wages for Fast Food Workers:
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday congratulated thousands of fast-food workers who have staged one-day strikes to demand higher wages. “I rise today to congratulate hundreds and hundreds of young people throughout the country who are standing up for justice, who are putting a spotlight on one of the major economic crises facing this country,” Sanders said in a Senate floor speech.
On Wednesday alone workers in St. Louis, Kansas City and Detroit picketed McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Popeye’s and Long John Silver’s restaurants as part of a campaign to double their hourly wages to $15 an hour. There also have been demonstrations in New York, N.Y., Chicago and Washington, D.C.
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“What they are saying is workers cannot make it on $7.25 an hour, $7.50 an hour. Often they are unable to get 40 hours of work and in most cases they get no or very limited benefits,” Sanders added. “What they are saying is we need to raise the minimum wage in this country.”
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday congratulated thousands of fast-food workers who have staged one-day strikes to demand higher wages. “I rise today to congratulate hundreds and hundreds of young people throughout the country who are standing up for justice, who are putting a spotlight on one of the major economic crises facing this country,” Sanders said in a Senate floor speech.
On Wednesday alone workers in St. Louis, Kansas City and Detroit picketed McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Popeye’s and Long John Silver’s restaurants as part of a campaign to double their hourly wages to $15 an hour. There also have been demonstrations in New York, N.Y., Chicago and Washington, D.C.
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“What they are saying is workers cannot make it on $7.25 an hour, $7.50 an hour. Often they are unable to get 40 hours of work and in most cases they get no or very limited benefits,” Sanders added. “What they are saying is we need to raise the minimum wage in this country.”
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
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