In These Times
05-24-2017, 11:06 PM
As the line of marchers grew and drummers and bands loudly revved up, Marcus Stone, an $8 an hour McDonald’s cook, was pumped.
“I believe it is going to happen, if we fight hard enough,” he said, covered in a thin plastic slicker because of a bone-chilling rain drenching downtown Chicago.
He took a nine-hour, all-night bus from Kansas City with his wife and four children, their seven-month-old included, to march Tuesday through crowded rush-hour streets in what the Fight for 15 movement called its largest-ever protest against the fast-food giant.
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“I believe it is going to happen, if we fight hard enough,” he said, covered in a thin plastic slicker because of a bone-chilling rain drenching downtown Chicago.
He took a nine-hour, all-night bus from Kansas City with his wife and four children, their seven-month-old included, to march Tuesday through crowded rush-hour streets in what the Fight for 15 movement called its largest-ever protest against the fast-food giant.
More... (http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/20157/meet_the_workers_who_took_overnight_buses_to_bring_the_fight_for_15_to_mcdo/)