Fast food workers and some home-care workers in 150 cities across the US will
strike tomorrow demanding a $15 an hour wage and the right to unionize: this
within a broader national fight for a living wage for all. Our guests are Kokayi
Jitahidi with Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) and Samuel Homer
Williams a Burger King employee who will join the national strike.
Also, our regular feature South of the Border with Mark Weisbrot; we discuss
Uruguay’s recent Presidential election and more.
And the case of Carolyn Hill reaches the Superior Court in Philadelphia. She is an
aunt and low income Black single mother who was caring for her nieces only to have
them abruptly taken away by child welfare because she lacked a high school
equivalency diploma or a GED our guests are Carolyn Hill and Phoebe Jones
Schellenberg of Every Mother is a Working Mother.
