Construction specialists joined the battle for a higher the lowest pay permitted by law for hourly laborers by raging a Manhattan McDonald's amid a Saturday morning rally.
The hardhats, numerous from Gary LaBarbera's Building and Construction Trades Council, united with low-wage specialists wanting to persuade fast-food companies like McDonald's to raise their time-based compensation to $15 every hour — while likewise challenging a dubious improvement being manufactured without union laborers.
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Around 200 workers, union and nonunion, fast-food representatives, airplane terminal laborers, home human services helpers, extra educators and others calling for better pay walked from the Walker Tower on W. eighteenth St., the home of designer Michael Stern, to the McDonald's on Sixth Ave. somewhere around fourteenth and fifteenth Sts. around 11 a.m.
Stern's JDS Construction arrangements to assemble a 80-story tower at 111 W. 57th St. — without utilizing union specialists, as per union authorities.
“I’m here to demonstrate against Michael Stern, the carpetbagger construction worker that’s beating his people out of healthy wages and not giving them a fair salary,” railed Laborers Local 79 member Brian Pressley.
The 58-year-old Harlemite likewise had the backs of the people behind the counter.
“You have corporate greed exploiting the workers,” Pressley said. “They’re not getting a living wage.”
The construction specialists filled the burger joint, blocking clients, and droning, "Laborers united will never be separated!"
The challenge took after a mid-week declaration that McDonald's arrangements to raise the pay of hourly specialists by $1 in its nonfranchise stores.
The move left an astringent taste in commentators' mouths as it just covers around 10% of the chain's 750,000 laborers. The normal time-based compensation crosswise over organization possessed McDonald's restaurants will increment from $9.01 an hour to $9.90.
“We’re here to get a living wage for all people,” said Chris Guy, 57, a member of Local 7. “For all people, absolutely.”
The rally was an invitation to battle for a much bigger national day of activity on April 15, when the Trades Council and many different gatherings arrange a monstrous occasion to push for the $15 time-based compensation for fast-food laborers.
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