Fast-food workers across 15 U.S. cities are on strike demanding higher wages and better working conditions.
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00:00We work, we sweat, put 15 on our job. We work, we sweat, put 15 on our track.
00:18McDonald's, you say that we are essential. You say that we are the workers.
00:23You have millions and millions of workers out here today backing us.
00:27We're going to steady come out here until you get it.
00:30We shouldn't have to be scared when we go to work.
00:33We shouldn't have to worry that we're going to be made uncomfortable and our personal space is going to be violated.
00:40Nobody deserves that.
00:42I worked in the food industry and it is one of the most difficult but essential industries in the United States.
01:00We are nothing without food workers, period.
01:03We cannot feed our families without food workers, our economy and our lives.
01:42We know that the United States Congress is not being tricked or duped into thinking that they have raised all their wages to 15.
01:48And we will not stop adding pressure until they listen to their workers and actually fulfill the demands that you all are asking for.
01:56We should not have to work, work, check, to work, check. We should not have to live in poverty.
02:01The rich is getting rich and we're getting poor and they don't seem to understand that.
02:06McDonald's is waiting for, you're waiting for Washington, D.C. to do something and you can do something today.
02:12Now you have workers where the pandemic hit and they have to stay at home because now they're teachers of their children.
02:38And they have to stay home to make sure their kids are graduating for school.
02:43It's hard as a mom as it is.
02:46And also have to go in a corporation where your boss doesn't respect you and you're getting retaliated against.
02:52That's not right.
02:54We're just asking to be respected, racial justice, $15 an hour, a union for all.
03:00And that's not a lot to ask.
03:07Because you are out there mobilizing, that we can point to that organizing and say, this is how bad the people want it.
03:35This is what they are in fact demanding.
03:38And because you are doing the work that we can point to, it allows us to create the political pressure necessary to keep pushing.