Dossier – Maryland and DC’s minimum wage will rise in 2020 as more states in the US try to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour. (M. Spencer Green / AP photo)
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UPDATED at 8:12 a.m.PT – Friday, January 15, 2021
Fast food workers in more than a dozen cities across the country are preparing to go on strike. A group called Fight for $ 15 and a workers’ union are calling on workers to strike Friday to demand that the minimum wage be raised to $ 15 an hour.
Fast food workers will go on strike on January 15, on what would be MLK’s 92nd birthday, to demand $ 15 / hour and the right to unionize! Employees will not flinch until everyone has made at least $ 15! # FightFor15 https://t.co/pPgSODMEph pic.twitter.com/c7a5rxkvHg
– Fight for 15 (@ fightfor15) January 13, 2021
The organization specifically hopes to get employees from McDonald’s and Wendy’s, two of the country’s largest fast food chains, to join their cause.
The group planned the strike to coincide with what was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been. Strikes are expected in at least 15 cities, from Los Angeles to Detroit.
Fast food workers like Ashley in Florida won $ 15 / hr last November, but she’s not slowing down. We will all keep fighting until EVERY EMPLOYEE gets $ 15. #RaisetheWage # Fightfor15 https://t.co/dz9vNvXxal pic.twitter.com/bwBgiOgwch
– Show me $ 15 (@ Show_Me15) January 8, 2021