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CBS/AP November 10, 2015, 10:44 AM
Fast food workers strike nationwide for $15/hr
Fast food workers hold a demonstration in New York City on Nov. 10, 2015.
CBS NEW YORK/JANELLE BURRELL
NEW YORK -- Hundreds of fast food workers are striking nationwide Tuesday, joining other workers in pressing for a more livable wage.
Billed as the largest rally to date, there are 270 demonstrations scheduled nationwide. Workers have g one on strike nationwide repeatedly in the last few years demanding higher pay. According to organizers, more than 60 million Americans are paid less than $15 per 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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