By Samantha Masunaga
Protesters demonstrate outside a McDonald's restaurant in Oakland, California, at the start of the minimum wage campaign in 2013. Photo: AP
Los Angeles: (click here) Thousands of low-wage workers and their supporters have marched through the streets of several US cities to drum beats and whistles calling for a $US15 ($21.29) minimum wage.
The nationwide "Fight for 15" protest expected workers from 270 cities to walk out in what organisers hoped would be the fast-food industry's largest ever strike.
In Los Angeles protesters – backed by the Service Employees International Union – gathered at a local McDonald's before marching to City Hall. Home care and child care workers marched alongside fast-food employees, union members and community organisations....
Across the USA it doesn't matter the industry one works the results in seeking good pay is all the same, "Get something for nothing."
When Wall Street and decades of Republican policy in Washington ignored an entire generation of Americans preparing for good paying jobs, they set up the USA for fiscal failure and their big profits.
Should I remind all that Walmart even has a special counselor for their employees to help with applications for food stamps and Medicaid. It is time to organize and become members of unions that will provide counseling to Wall Street to pay better and see even better profits with a growing future.
