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Fight For $15 Draws Huge Crowd, Invades McDonalds (Dinkytown)
It starts out on the U. of M. campus and then marches to the Dinkytown McDonalds
Published on Apr 16, 2015
Teamsters, college students, fast food workers and those who love and support them made up a crowd of about 1,500 people at the University of Minnesota calling for low wage employers to pay their workers at least $15 an hour. Organizers say it was part of a 236 city country wide strike where fast food workers and walked off their jobs. The Twin Cities rally was one of the nation's largest.
Teamsters, college students, fast food workers and those who love and support them made up a crowd of about 1,500 people at the University of Minnesota calling for low wage employers to pay their workers at least $15 an hour. Organizers say it was part of a 236 city country wide strike where fast food workers and walked off their jobs. The Twin Cities rally was one of the nation's largest.
http://theuptake.org/2015/04/16/fight-for-15-draws-huge-crowd-invades-mcdonalds/
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