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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:07AM
> They'd need a hundred thousand to strike to inconvenience anyone enough to notice.
And yet the strike was reported on all the major nightly news shows as well as all the 24-news channels and hundreds of newish websites.
Looks like they might actually know more about how this stuff works than you do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @12:23AM
I wish that The Center for American Progress had updated this concept this week.
The page contains a 647kB animated GIF that shows the number of cities where actions have occurred between Autumn 2012 and Spring 2014. [thinkprogress.org]
The final count then was 150 cities.
-- gewg_