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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday November 11 2015, @02:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the rise-of-the-proletariat dept.

Hundreds of fast food workers are striking nationwide Tuesday, joining other workers in pressing for a more livable wage. But while some say $15 is a minimum needed to survive, some business owners say dishing out more pay would leave them struggling to keep their doors open.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fast-food-workers-strike-again-nationwide-for-15-an-hour

In New York City, rallies are being held in Harlem, the Financial District and Brooklyn in support of efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, reports CBS New York.

In Los Angeles, the local protests are organized by Service Employees International Union, and include fast-food, home-care and child-care workers, along with other "underpaid" employees, reports CBS Los Angeles.

"Is this the America we believe in? When someone works all day long and they still can't get by," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said during an early-morning rally in Downtown Brooklyn. "Does anyone believe that it's easy to get by in New York City on less than $15 an hour?"

Critics say a $15 minimum wage would obliterate opportunity and usher in higher taxes, but de Blasio said the opposite is true -- with more money to spend, low wage workers contribute more to the economy.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:02AM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:02AM (#261587)

    The title of this post means I have to recount this CSB.

    I was a teenage busboy in around '74 or so. One of my co-workers was a nice old lady in her 70's, can't remember her name although I can recall her face. One day one of my other co-workers brought in some special brownies. We enjoyed them. Went to bus the cook's station, lady who's name I can't remember is singing "oh I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Weiner", and was much friendlier than her normal very friendly self (nothing sexual, just a really nice lady). I went to Mike and asked "did you give her a brownie?" "well, she asked if she could have one, what was I gonna say?".

    Mike died last March of Lou Gehrig's disease, I'd known him since '63 or so. This CSB is in honor of Mike, hell of a cool dude who died way too young.

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