"Giovanni Uribe, with the restaurant worker advocacy organisation One Fair Wage, told Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey he had come out to protest against billionaires whittling away the rights of workers. Service workers in New York City are the backbone of this city, he said. The National Restaurant Association is our number one opponent that's fighting to keep subminimum wage intact so they don't have to pay their workers their full minimum wage to survive. So we're just asking for a livable wage."
"The federally set minimum wage in the US is $7.25 an hour a figure that has not been raised since 2009 due in part to the successful lobbying of industry groups. Tipped workers, like wait staff, have a federally mandated subminimum wage of $2.13, a figure set in 1991 that is legally required to be offset to reach the $7.25 minimum but which advocates say often results in wage theft."
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered at rallies across the United States as Labor Day began. More than 1,000 demonstrations spanned all 50 states under the banner Workers Over Billionaires. Protesters demanded stronger worker protections, fully funded schools, universal healthcare and housing, living wages, and an end to corporate corruption, attacks on marginalized communities, and federal overreach. Hundreds gathered outside Trump Tower in New York, chanting for Trump to step down and holding signs for living wages and universal healthcare. Federal minimum wage remains $7.25 an hour since 2009, with a $2.13 federal subminimum for tipped workers.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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