Amy Goodman
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Fast-Food CEOs Oppose Worker Raises Despite Making 1,200 Times More Than Average Employee
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May 15, 2014
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5:51Now PlayingThousands of fastfood workers in the United States and around the world are staging a oneday strike today to demand a livable wage. A recent report found fast food CEOs make 1,200 times as much as money as the average fastfood worker, a disparity that maximizes shortterm profit while harming worker security and the overall economy. We are joined by the report's author, Catherine Ruetschlin, a policy analyst at Demos; and by Terrance Wise, who has worked at Burger King for nine years and is striking today in Kansas City, his fourth such action since last August.
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