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I'm a McDonald's worker going on strike today. Here's why we deserve a $15 minimum wage

Posted on AllSides January 15th, 2021

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In Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech, delivered while he was in Memphis to support Black sanitation workers striking for better working conditions, he declared that "we've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end." He was killed the next day, but his fight for racial and economic justice — including a fair, livable wage for all working people — didn't end with his death. It continues today, on what would be his 92nd birthday, as I join with fast-food workers around the country to go on strike...

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