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Detroit-area
fast
food
workers
demand
that
local
McDonald's
get with
the New
York
program
REDFORD,
MI (Tell
Us Det)
- It
only
takes a
New York
minute
to see
that
Michigan
shouldn’t
fall
behind
that
eastern
state, a
Thursday
rally
points
out. On
the
heels of
the New
York
Wage
Board’s
recommendation
that
fast
food
workers
should
earn $15
an hour,
dozens
of
low-wage
workers
and
their
supporters
rallied
in Metro
Detroit
to call
on
elected
officials
for
similar
leadership.
The
labor
protest
movement
that
fast-food
workers
in New
York
City
began
nearly
three
years
ago has
led to
higher
wages
for
workers
all
across
the
country.
On
Wednesday,
it paid
off for
the
people
who
started
it.
“Michigan
needs to
follow
the lead
of New
York,”
said
Pastor
W.J.
Rideout
III of
All
God’s
People
Church
in
Detroit.
I’m here
because
we want
Michigan
fast
food
workers
to
receive
$15 an
hour.”
Shouting,
“we
believe
that we
can
win,”
and “Hey
Hey! Ho
Ho!
$8.15
has got
to go,”
the
protestors
initially
took
over the
lobby of
the
McDonald’s
restaurant
at 15301
Telegraph
Road,
before
being
ushered
out by
the
Redford
Police
Department.
(Photo
by HB
Meeks/Tell
Us
Detroit)
Using
the New
York
Wage
Board’s
recommendation
of a $15
hourly
wage for
the fast
food
industry
as their
example,
more
than 100
fast
food
workers
and
their
supporters,
part of
the D15
campaign,
rallied
at a
Redford
McDonald’s
Thursday
for a
similar
action
by
Michigan’s
elected
officials.
“I’m
here
because
$8.15 is
not
enough,”
said
Brittany
Williamson,
a
21-year-old
McDonald’s
worker
who said
that the
action
in New
York
shows
that,
“when we
fight,
we win.”
Michigan’s
minimum
wage “is
not a
livable
wage,”
she
added.
Thursday’s
rally at
a
Redford
McDonald’s
was one
of
several
events
taking
place
across
the
country
to
highlight
the need
for a
livable
wage.
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