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Low Wage Workers STRIKE in Chicago, Asking for a Living Wage
EARLIER THIS MONTH lower wage workers in New York City striked – today, it was Chicago’s turn. Workers at McDonalds, Macy’s, Sear’s and Subway took to the picket lines!
WAGES IN OUR COUNTRY truly do suck! And I for one am happy to see people fighting back. It is almost impossible to find a job for $10-$15. And event at $15 an hour, that is barely a livable wage.
Hundreds of employees from stores
walked off the job today in Chicago for higher wages, three
weeks after a similar strike by fast-food workers in New York.
The employees marched in the Chicago Loop and near the
Magnificent Mile shopping area, calling for $15-an-hour pay,
82 percent more than the state’s minimum wage, and the right to
form a union without intimidation. The one-day strike was
arranged by the Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago, a group
of retail and food workers, according to a statement yesterday.
serving workers in the U.S., including those who work at fast-
food restaurants, according to a report by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics in May. The median wage for those workers is $8.78 an
hour, or about $18,260 a year, the data shows. MOST BUSINESSES would only have raise the price of items by pennies, to make up for a better wage!
