据美国《华盛顿邮报》报道,美国大约100个城市的快餐店工人酝酿在近日举行大罢工,要求将最低工资提高至每小时15美元。
这场抗议始于2017年11月,当时,纽约市内30家快餐店的大约200名员工举行了罢工。从那时起,罢工运动席卷全美,规模逐渐扩大,要求为在零售连锁店、联邦承包项目工作的低收入人群增加薪水。
据调查,快餐店所有者的代表们表示他们支付不起一般工人的工资,虽然这些工人的时薪几乎不到9美元。餐饮业激烈的价格竞争,使得快餐连锁店的利润空间越来越小。
在威明顿市,一位43岁在汉堡王工作的父亲本杰明·亨特表示:“我们现在的工资实在不够用。” 他还表示,他每小时赚7.25美元,他的妻子是汉堡王的值班经理,每小时赚9美元。他们的家庭需要靠医疗补助和食物救济券过活。亨特说:“你说谁能指望那点工资过活?”
Fast-food workers are poised to walk off the job in 100 cities Thursday, the latest action in a nationwide push for a $15-an-hour wage.
Organizers said Thursday’s one-day job action will be backed by protests in 100 other cities by social justice groups that support the fast-food workers’ demands.
“There is a huge amount of support and enthusiasm for this,” said Ezra Tempko of the Delaware chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action, which is supporting workers who plan to walk out in Wilmington, Del. “The only push back is that folks were worried about what repercussions there might be for workers.”
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