Fast-food workers pressing for $15 minimum wage, tie fight to civil rights
“A long campaign to raise wages for fast-food workers to $15 an hour is tying its fight to historical fights for civil rights as protesters plan to rally in Detroit and other cities nationwide on Monday — 50 years after the Memphis sanitation strike. Detroit fast-food workers are expected to walk off their jobs at about noon on Monday and join with activists from the Poor People’s Campaign in solidarity with the ensuing ‘massive wave of civil disobedience.’”