File: Maryland and DC minimum wages are projected to increase by 2020 as more U.S. states try to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour. (M. Spencer Green / AP Photo)
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UPDATED 8:12 AM PT – Friday, January 15, 2021
Fast food workers in more than a dozen cities across the country are preparing to strike. A group called Fight for $ 15 and a labor union are calling for employees to go on strike on Friday to demand that the minimum wage be raised to $ 15 per hour.
Fast food workers go on strike on Jan. 15, which would be MLK’s 92nd anniversary, to demand $ 15 an hour and the right to a union. Workers will not back down until everyone earns at least $ 15. # LluitaPer15 https://t.co/pPgSODMEph pic.twitter.com/c7a5rxkvHg
– Fight For 15 (@ fightfor15) January 13, 2021
The organization specifically hopes to get workers at McDonald’s and Wendy’s, two of the country’s largest fast food chains, to join its cause.
The group planned the strike to coincide with what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 92nd birthday. Strikes are expected in at least 15 cities, from Los Angeles to Detroit.
Fast food workers like Ashley in Florida earned $ 15 an hour last November, but it doesn’t slow down. We will continue to fight until ALL WORKERS get $ 15. #RaisetheWage # Fightfor15 https://t.co/dz9vNvXxal pic.twitter.com/bwBgiOgwch
– Show me $ 15 (@ Show_Me15) January 8, 2021