Fast Food Strikes Hit Cities Throughout The Country
One of them, Letasha Irby, works during a bureau in Selma, Alabama, that produces automobile seats and headrests for Hyundai cars. It’s usually a arrange of production pursuit that Americans historically associate with solid, middle-class wages. Yet Irby says she earns usually $12 per hour
Irby pronounced that on Tuesday she done skeleton to expostulate to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, after her change to join a Fight for 15 protest. Irby is a believer of a United Auto Workers, who have been perplexing to classify her plant in Selma and have so distant not succeeded.
“I have a whole lot in common with them,†Irby, a 37-year-old Alabama local and mom of two, pronounced of fast-food workers. “Whether it’s quick food, retail, child caring … we’re all being underpaid for a services.â€
Another worker, Angela Simler, pronounced she would be assisting to horde a Fight for 15 grill outward her place of employment, a T-Mobile call core in Wichita, Kansas. Simler supports a debate by a Communications Workers of America to unionize her T-Mobile facility. She pronounced she earns $12.43 per hour. As a mom of a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old, she pronounced her salary don’t cut it, and each month presents slashing decisions over that bills to compensate and that to set aside. T-Mobile did not respond to a ask for comment.
“Whether it’s quick food, Walmart, child care, T-Mobile, all these people are paid too small to support their families,†pronounced Simler, 33. “The salary have remained low for too long.â€
Berta Chacon took partial in a criticism in New York City on Tuesday. Chacon is not a fast-food workman — she’s employed during a beauty salon in a city. But she, too, pronounced she faces a same financial struggles as fast-food workers.
“Our salaries are really low,†Chacon pronounced in Spanish. “We are fighting for $15 an hour in sequence to tarry in this city.â€
Willa Frej contributed reporting.