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November 29, 2016

Tens of Thousands #Fightfor15 on National Day of Disruption
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Tens of thousands of fast-food workers, home care and childcare workers
in 340 cities are slated to protest today for a National Day of
Disruption. The protest marks the fourth anniversary of the movement to
raise wages known as the #Fight For15. In Chicago, hundreds of janitors,
baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and wheelchair attendants at O'Hare
Airport are slated to strike to demand a raise to $15 an hour. Hundreds
of Uber drivers in cities across the country are also slated to join the
protest. This is Michael Vazquez, a wheelchair attendant at New York
City's La Guardia Airport.

Michael Vazquez: "$10.10 an hour is just not a livable living wage,
especially if you have a family. After 40 hours a week, you barely make
over $1,000, and you really can't live in this city with that type of
wage, honestly. So we're here just trying to make a better living for
everybody. You know, I'm here on my day off. You know, I'm not just
doing this for me. It's not just about me; it's about all of us. So, as
you can see, as you can hear behind me, we're all here fighting, we're
all here sticking together, and we're not going to give up."

This comes as German airliner Lufthansa has canceled 1,700 flights for
today and Wednesday amid an ongoing pilots' strike, which has seen a
series of walkouts and strikes since last Wednesday.


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