Amy Goodman
@DemocracyNow·3.2M subscribers·19.4K videos
"We Have to Stop This Inequality": Fast-Food Worker Strike Spreads to Dozens of Cities
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May 15, 2014
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4:46Now PlayingIn a historic move, thousands of fastfood workers are staging a onedaystrike today in least 150 cities including St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Oakland, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. Organizers with Fast Food Forward say workers from 80 cities in more than 30 countries around the world will also join the day of action. The workers are demanding demand the right to organize and call for a doubling of their wages from the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour. We hear voices from a protest in New York City outside a McDonald's across the street from the Empire State Building.
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